Work around for firmware/configuration update error "command not recognized"
I spent more than an hour attempting to update my Drop Shift keyboard. I'm not sure what has changed, but I was not able to do it entirely from the Drop website as I had previously done. I have most of the keys configured how I would like, but the default LED function was a very bright, distracting, rainbow wave going across the keyboard. Every time I turned the computer on I had to manually adjust the lights how I liked. Using the online version or the locally installed app, you first have to install the QMK XAP interface. You then have to flash your already configured firmware file, which can be done on the Drop website. If you are logged in your last configuration is saved under your account and you can alter what you like, so you don't have to start from scratch. So, following the instructions I selected the appropriate board, entered bootloader mode, but when attempting to flash the file, I would get an error that the C:/Users/Mike C..... command is not recognized...
Oct 18, 2024
"I've been away from Drop for a year or more..." he says! "Whatever happened to all the watches and knives and other cool gadgets?" he asks! I'll tell you what happened buddy; you and a bunch of guys like you, abandoned the site--that's what happened! Did you suppose MD was just gonna tread water 'till you's came back? Sorry buddy, but while you was out to lunch with the now-and-then-crowd, the big boss had what you'd call an "epiphany."
"You know, for kids!" he says. Now think about it buddy, how many eleven-hundred dollar watches, knives and cool gadgets did you buy, when you was here buddy? Yeah, that's what I thought. You see buddy, right about now they got kids lined up around the block with fists full of cash just wait'n to buy a pair of HD 8XXs. And you know what? When they come out with the new HD 9XXs six months from now, them same kids will still be lined up around the block! You ever stand in line for a watch or pocket knife buddy? No, I didn't think you's did. Well friend, that's the long and short of it--a simple case of you snooze, you loose, combined with the hard facts of time waits for no man, all served up with a side order of money talks and--well you know the rest, buddy My advise to you buddy it stop try'n swim up-stream—join the crowd. Get yourself a nice pair of cans and new keyboard while the get'n's good. 'Cuz buddy, you don't know how long that stuff's gonna be around either!