Not to mention, the team has optimized the VIA with compatibility across Windows, Mac and Linux. The difference is the bootloader and the connections. The QMK Documentation page is pretty expansive, and tries to document all features available. I'll try when I get home. Both the WhiteFox and Infinity Ergodox hardware also support 100 fps animations. A GUI for modifying the keyboard layout, the killer feature is that it instantly updates the firmware. VIA Configurator is a desktop app that talks to your VIA-enabled keyboard and allows you to remap keys on-the-fly, as well as toggling layout options, programming macros, and controlling lighting. In fact I think I will send a pull request that deletes the whole chibios_test, as it no longer serves the original purpose. I have had slightly too big ambitions with the visualization support, and not much time to actually program it, so it has taken way longer than planned. It supports auto-detection and auto-flashing of firmware to keyboards. QMK ( Quantum Mechanical Keyboard) is an open source community centered around developing computer input devices. Highly customizable, fast, easy, and accessible, what more can you ask for? Oh wasn't aware of that limitation, I need a second split for home/work and was hoping to put rotary encoders on that one! Can I brick the keyboard if I mess up, or is it always recoverable by flashing the original kiibohd firmware back? These are two distinct products (commercially) and the firmware should clearly reflect this. Work fast with our official CLI. And he has done a really good job with getting the firmware to the state it is. This is where VIA steps in. I also don't like that keyboards not made by @tmk himself are classified as second-class citizen. It serves as the default firmware for all OLKB boards, the Clueboard line, and the Ergodox EZ, and is always looking to add more to the list! Validating the result is a bit trickier as results are actually KLL capabilities (i.e. If the keyboard is qmk compatible but its not in the vias compatible list, can you enable it anyway? Wow I didnt know this existed! Multiple code repositories on GitHub -- there are, A web GUI tool for configuring and compiling TMK can be found. And, instead of scanning all the keys, then processing all the LEDs, just process one strobe (matrix column) of keys at a time. In my case, i just flashed that .hex and loaded VIA. This isnt needed unless youre looking at flashing the bootloader on your keyboard with a BusPirate in SWD mode. I hacked on this a little ec1oud@3fa9073 re-enables the LCD and key backlighting and LCD text animations. KLL (0.2c) was first unveiled at the 7th Kiibohd Bay Area keyboard meetup (in San Francisco) on May 31st, 2014, hosted by keyboard.io. In his quest for quality, he rewrites code about just as much as HaaTa does . Maybe newer versions are required. Read the Docs! I think it makes a lot of sense that keymaps for boards with the same layout but different underlying architectures can be shared. While the most recent addition to the Input Club team, smasher816 has been helping out since before the Infinity 60% first shipped out in 2015 . N-key rollover Have a question about this project? We opensource (CERN OHL) the schematic, layout, BOM (bill of materials) as well as the gerbers used to manufacture the pcbs. But that would of course be a bit of a hassle for the users, and maybe even cause merge conflicts, since the location changes. That makes a lot of sense now. Flashing QMK. The review process would probably be a bit tighter than other pull requests, but otherwise there shouldn't be any difference. It should support anything that is supported by the uGFX library, and supports threads. @jackhumbert @fredizzimo Do you think it would be a good idea to update LUFA in the process? help. @fredizzimo have you confirmed that this works for Teensy 3.2's? So that could be moved out to it's own file, or kept in the same file with ifdefs. One of the major improvements to the firmware was moving from a single execution loop to two concurrent threads. Before turning this into a biography, lets just say HaaTa has too many projects . Prior to the K-Type, the only heavy lifting the MCU had to do was scan keys, send updates to USB and occasionally update some peripherals (e.g. The configurator is comprised of two parts, the UI (the configurator download) and the KiiConf server (which handles generating the firmware image). I have it working on a lets split, but I cant find a hex file with via for the levinson! He has all sorts of cool things planned out for the desktop configurator all in the name of R, G and B. ChibiOS will be added as a submodule, at least initially, as that way it won't grow the repository size, and we can always move to subtrees later. The Ergodox EZ has the typical "Teensy reset switch" which provides this behavior. Cheers. But I haven't had any test reports for my latest fixes yet. I will mostly need help with testing the LED support, since I didn't install LED's in my board. Were hard-at-work on both the next prototype case and pcb revisions (with big news in less than a week!). QMK Firmware has a lots of features, like supporting multiple layers, macros, Mod-Tap, mouse keys, split keyboards, backlighting, RGB, etc., which makes it a popular choice for hobbyists. All of the keyboards released by Keebio so far have QMK support, and Keebio is involved with the QMK organization as a collaborator. I love using via for my macropad but it'd be even better if I could set the lighting based on what's active right now. Capabilities that are thread-safe may be called immediately inside the periodic thread, while non-thread-safe capabilities must be queued up for the polling thread. The biggest chance of bricking it would probably be to flash it more than 10000 times, after which the flash memory might start to fail. In general, this should be the only git repo you need to clone. Which the configurator backend then uses to generate a firmware bundle. The code here is mainly written in C with a CMake build system. So based on that, I would say it's safe to remove it. GitHub KLL - Keyboard Layout Language Spec KLL Web Configurator - latest Kiibohd Presentations Scanned Documents The keymaps would also not always be automatically compatible, since some of them includes some ergodox_ez specific headers. VIA is a feature in QMK that lets you change your keymap on your keyboard without needing to reflash firmware. The second is automating the Zadig driver installation. Hopefully after reading through this, we'll get you sorted out on what's what and how it applies to your keyboard. QMK Toolbox This is a collection of flashing tools packaged into one app. This is the main Kiibohd Firmware. How do you prefer to include the ChibiOS library itself? --> Wiki <-- If you have questions start here. USB 2.0 FS is only polls for new data at 1000 Hz and even USB 3.1 Gen 2 at 8000 Hz . So I would like to refactor that first. This makes it much easier to write parsing rules and not break unrelated rules. With a symbol size of 8 bits, that would put the link at a 562 500 Hz polling rate . ZMK (Zephyr mechanical keyboard) is open source firmware created for wireless custom keyboards, but it also works on wired keyboards. If nothing happens, download GitHub Desktop and try again. As were still trying to catch-up and finish the KLL 0.5 support, there hasnt been a lot of action on the KLL spec. The K-Type animations run at 100 fps. So, back in 2016 HaaTa began his port of the KLL firmware to x86. Reviews must Disclose Conflicts of Interest, Giveaways are not allowed on /r/MechanicalKeyboards, Do not DM Mods: All Moderation and Subreddit Related Issues Should be Flagged in ModMail, Press J to jump to the feed. QMK started as a fork of TMK by /u/jackhumbert for his boards, but has now grown into a community project, supporting over 40 different keyboards, and several handwired ones. Reevaluating that decision now, I have a couple thoughts. I have some experience with writing layouts for tmk and qmk and compared to these, the Kiibohd firmware either lacks a lot of functionality or doesn't make it obvious that I can do the same. I'm happy owner of Ergodox EZ and have a fork with custom layout and now I received Ergodox Infinity from Massdrop. Hardware and software maker community based around ortholinear or ergonomic keyboards and QMK firmware. I will start of with an almost direct port of what was initially done for ChibiOS support in TMK, and then proceed to the needed refactorings and other stuff. I didn't change much code and I used TeensyLoader selecting the ch.hex inside the /build directory. (TLDR) QMK is an abbreviation for Quantum Mechanical Keyboard, it's an open-source project that allows users with enough skills or developers to build their own QMK firmware for a custom keyboard to control backlight effects, macros, custom keycodes, and mouse commands on different keymap layers. One option for the keymaps would be to change the folder structure slightly to have. Doing a subtree sounds good - I'm not too worried about repo size. Parak, the ebay master responsible for most of HaaTas keyboard collection, is a proficient collector in tools of great quality (such as IBM keyboards) in his own right. Licensing is done on a per-file basis. This is a relatively new repo forked from libwdi by smasher816. Historically we generally revise the pcb between runs more often than the case. QMK's copy hasn't been updated in quite a while. This started as a help & update subreddit for Jack Humbert's company, OLKB (originally Ortholinear Keyboards), but quickly turned into a larger maker community that is DIY in nature, exploring what's possible with hardware, software, and firmware. Stuff like holding an f key to change a layer as long as I hold the key or tapping the f key to lock the layer (ACTION_LAYER_TAP_TOGGLE in tmk/qmk), running custom code on a key press (ACTION_FUNCTION_TAP) or having dual roles for a key, like ALT when held or APP when tapped (ALT_T(KC_APP) in qmk) seems to be missing in the Kiibohd firmware. That leaves us with more time to discuss the direction we are going, and gives @jackhumbert, @ezuk and everyone else possibilities for their inputs. Are there any parts that you feel shouldn't be done? Since most of the QMK/VIA compatible keyboards are not wireless enabled. Enabling Iris Rev. This can sometimes be increased, but once again, this requires setting up a QMK build environment. HaaTa's adventures in keyboards! I like the refactoring changes in tmk_core#19 and would merge that, but I'd like to reserve the right to make some other big refactoring changes myself in the future :) exactly what that entails, I'm not sure at this time. They do not actually update your firmware. The next thing would be to have the LCDs working. There's little reason that a keymap for clueboard1 couldn't be used on clueboard2. QMK Firmware has a lots of features, like supporting multiple layers, macros, Mod-Tap, mouse keys, split keyboards, backlighting, RGB, etc., which makes it a popular choice for hobbyists. These were all fixed using the new the Self-Testing KLL build feature. I just tried moving the infinity60 rules.mk file to a teensy3.2 layout setup. Contains some small updates for the Kinetis mk20dx256vlh7 MCU as well as some additional debugging used in manufacturing. So I first suggested a very lightweight approach, which he didn't like, so I did some bigger refacoring. LED support). But if the keyboard is smarter (ARM based generally) and using a weak form of security like XOR it can be hacked. How would I go about flashing the default ergodox infinty layout with QMK? For reference, a standard USB 2.0 LS keyboard only polls data at 125 Hz . For both the one key and your "totoroboard". You first have to set up QMK, but that is really simple and quick. If you want to use the teensyduino IDE, Matt30's guide may be way more complicated than you need. So support for that has to be ported. 6 VIA RGB Controls & Encoder Mapping, Updating Pro Micro Bootloader to DFU Bootloader. By clicking Sign up for GitHub, you agree to our terms of service and How stable is it? Feel free to use kiidrv in your own projects as its fully opensource under GPLv3 and LGPLv3, and just a useful tool in general. I'm not the only one with problems @eltang for example, has a perfectly valid pull request Update functions used to write to EEPROM, for which I see no reason for having to wait. Maybe the wiring is different or something? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community. Here is a brief rundown on what your code actually needs to do. Linked animations (using animations as triggers). Why QMK/VIA is one of the most essential features for a custom keyboard? Read the Docs! The controller git repo contains all the code that goes onto the keyboard as firmware. Soarer, hasu and dfj all conspired on the GeekHack IRC channel (#geekhack@irc.freenode.net) to develop what we know today as USB NKRO that works across Windows, Linux and macOS. It supports auto-detection and auto-flashing of firmware to keyboards. And while all our code and designs are opensource and up on GitHub it can be overwhelming (even for engineers!) Ive heard mention of this before but not entirely sure what it is - its a GUI for keymaps (at least I think), but Im wondering how I can get it. I have my keyboard with teensy 3.2 working using tmk_firmware, I would like to make the changes here as well. Sadly, this means its also impossible to test every configuration ahead of time. Therefore I have been thinking of the option to move to the QMK firmware instead. I get device unrecognized in your repo as well. This would of course be a huge change, which would require careful testing, for which I would need help from the community, since I don't own any of the supported keyboards myself. to use Codespaces. Master of the configurator and all things related to the web, jbondeson is a connoisseur of keycaps. That is a really basic overview, but should at least get you started. Our most recent release is v0.4.1. In order to get it to work, you will still need to flash a VIA enabled firmware file onto your board. The pcb has so many components on it that it has been tricky to place posts for screw holes. It also seems to be much more community driven. Yeah check the docs, it's just a flag to be compiled into QMK (I think..). I have made more keymap changes in a week than in months previously. Awesome! All the products will be shipped within 2 business days. How do you handle the changes to tmk_core here? from manufacturer to manufacturer, and even within a manufacturer (as they develop new MCUs). But for me as a contributor, it's an almost impossible situation, as I see so much potential, but I'm unable to do anything about it. [edit] Done some reading, edited the post. Also, dont worry, you dont need a bootloader update (youre not missing out on any keyboard features). A subtree would be easier to work with for users of the firmware, since they don't have to do any git submodule related commands. git submodule sync --recursive followed by git submodule update --init --recursive. The KLL compiler is automatically retrieved during the build process and will warn you if your KLL compiler is too old. dfj, while not well known, developed one of the first custom Model F capacitive sense controllers a couple years before xwhatsit. Kiibohd GitHub, Hosted on GitHub Pages Theme by orderedlist, protocol converter for XT/AT/PS2/Terminal keyboards. 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