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iakobou
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Dec 9, 2020
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Which LED programs do the RGB lights run? Is it the same as CTRL?
erickong
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Mech Keys Moderator
Dec 10, 2020
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iakobouLike the present LED patterns or like the software to program?
erickong
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Mech Keys Moderator
Dec 10, 2020
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iakobouhttps://drop.com/mechanical-keyboards/configurator/preset/carina--default
Looks like it has the same standard ones.
erickong
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Mech Keys Moderator
Dec 10, 2020
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platyplat
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Dec 11, 2020
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iakobouCarina is my first QMK board, and I'm really enjoying it. But I was surprised at the relatively tame (and few) lighting patterns in the default/factory config. It's kinda letting the fantastic RGB hardware go to waste. I customized the lighting on one of my layers, but how do I get started with flashing some custom (aftermarket/community created) RGB patterns? I suppose you cannot do it through Drop's configurator? Would somebody please point the way?
iakobou
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Dec 12, 2020
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platyplatCustom stuff is developed over time and on GitHub through various forks/branches. I am not smart enough to figure that out. But they are not easy to find either unless there is a site/portal/wormhole I don’t know about.
You are correct AFAIK you cannot use the configurator to flash them. I use Terminal for my compiling and flashing basics for custom macros.
platyplat
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Dec 12, 2020
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iakobouThanks, iakobou, but you are looking for such LED patterns, right? So presumably you know how to flash them onto the board?
iakobou
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Dec 13, 2020
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platyplatSure, flash compiled firmware via mdloader. But right now Carina has not been added to the official QMK master, so the extra official QMK RGB Matrix effects are not yet available like they are for the CTRL & ALT. It took about 4 months for CTRL to get it for example if I remember correctly. It will be worth the wait though because the official QMK RGB matrix animations are awesome.
platyplat
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Dec 15, 2020
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iakobouGreat to hear. Thanks! Hope you'll post here again when they're up, so the rest of us know when/how to get them.
And just to get a little bit of a head start, is this what you're referring to?
https://qmk.fm/keyboards/
https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/massdrop/ctrl
https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/massdrop/ctrl
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platyplat
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Dec 16, 2020
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iakobouYeah, fortunately I figured out mdloader. Have been tinkering with layers for basic key mappings and LED patterns with static colors. But it's heartening to know that, if history is any guide, we'll have awesome RGB animations to play with not too far in the future. Any particular reason they're referred to as matrix? Is it just because it's the filename?
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