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Stack Overflow The Key V2 Macropad
Firewatch
3
Jun 22, 2022
Can anyone help me change the LED colors on this? I’ve opened the file in the configurator and don’t see any settings for LED colors. Thank you!
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JetSerge
19
Jun 22, 2022
FirewatchYou can try this firmware (flash using qmk_toolbox, then use VIAL software to configure the keys and backlight).
ryanaeh
125
Jun 24, 2022
JetSergeThank you! Just what I was hoping for!
Firewatch
3
Jun 24, 2022
JetSergeThis worked perfectly. Thank you.
Andy-_-100
7
Jun 26, 2022
JetSergeThis is great!! For anyone who prefers a programmatic way to control the lights, here is an example (mostly repackaged from Vial's codebase) - imagine using the LEDs as a notification center.
https://github.com/shawenyao/the_key_v2/blob/main/main.ipynb
fostermatt
29
Jun 29, 2022
FirewatchHave you figured it out yet? I have done some searching and can't find anything.
csmith20
0
Jul 28, 2022
JetSergeVial is giving me "No devices detected." and their web version is telling me "No compatible devices found" Having trouble getting LED configuration done :( I tried to follow https://www.shawenyao.com/Stack-Overflow-The-LED/ but the pip commands at the bottom give me "ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement hid (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found from winrt"
Having a lot of trouble with this is anyone has any advice I would appreciate it! I thought changing LED firmware would be simple... wrong.
JetSerge
19
Jul 28, 2022
csmith20Make sure you flashed the linked vial firmware with QMK Toolbox, otherwise the software will not recognize it.
Aristarco
209
Aug 24, 2022
JetSergeHave you tried o do this but on the first version of The Key? I'd like to make it Vial-compatible like the v2.
JetSerge
19
Aug 25, 2022
AristarcoI don't have the first version, sorry. I found the code for the first version somewhere in the comments here and ported it to v2. You can try this version for v1: https://drop.com/buy/stack-overflow-the-key-macropad/talk/2864303. Or find the sources and build it yourself.
Val.de
3
Oct 14, 2022
JetSergeThank you for sharing this! is there a way to get a keymap.c for this firmware. I'm on linux and QMK_tools let me only compile keymap.c files to generate .hex that can then be flashed on the Key, but is not letting me to flash directly .hex files.
JetSerge
19
Oct 14, 2022
Val.deUse https://github.com/qmk/qmk_toolbox/releases to flash hex files. You are not supposed to build it yourself. If you want to build it for some reason, you need to follow VIAL build instructions. The link to sources was shared in my comment.
Val.de
3
Oct 14, 2022
JetSergeThanks for your quick reply. I understand I'm supposed to use qmk-toolbox, but I'm running a Ubuntu only machine, without any Windows, and there is no qmk-toolbox yet for Linux, or I'm wrong?
JetSerge
19
Oct 14, 2022
Val.deI see. Sorry, I don't know how to flash hex on Linux, but there should be a way.
PartyWumpus
2
Dec 25, 2022
JetSergeFor future users stumbling across this thread, I was able to flash the vial compatible firmware on linux with:
sudo dfu-programmer atmega32u4 erase --force and then dfu-programmer atmega32u4 flash massdrop_thekey_vial.hex (after extracting the .hex file from the .zip, the rest is not needed)
I think qmk flash should have worked, but it wouldn't work for me.
hey_yagahoe
0
Jan 16, 2024
JetSergeAbsolutely incredible. Thank you.
This should be openly available on GitHub
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