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Oh, thank you very much and sorry for not replying earlier.
Before I test it: Is there a way to do a backup of my controller in case it does not work anymore after the flash?


Well, typically when you buy a Pro Micro, it arrives blank (other than the bootloader). So I'm a little confused about ...

I am stating that this solution is simpler and more reliable than changing the springs.


First, I do agree that I think it would be a fascinating and informative test if somebody could take a keyboard that seems to have some pad sensing problems of some kind, and change ONLY the controller, from ...

I will report that one person recently noted an issue with transposed keys and the cause of the issue ended up being their use of Combos in the Vial firmware. Removing the combos fixed the transposed issue.


QMK Combos is honestly a bit of a weird feature. It can cause perceived delay/latency in ...

Looking to get my PC AT programmed. Using the universal with the Pro Micro. I am getting this from the QMK Toolbox. Any idea?

Edit: Got it working. But still curious about that.


That output mostly looks fine to me. Are you talking about the mention of a "Microsoft USB Serial Device"? I do know ...

Hi,
does anyone know, if a VIAL compatible firmware can be installed on this xwhatsit F122 controller?


I'm not aware of one, but I can throw one together for you...


Okay, feel free to give this a try .


Since posting this, I have managed to secure myself a Pro Micro to play with ...

The QMK stuff should work just fine. The only issues I had really firmware wise with my Kishy were pretty much all user error on my end.
Just to be clear, "Vial" firmware is not really a wholly separate firmware project, but is the same QMK firmware you're already used to (so, QMK + pandrew's ...

Quick question. Just getting a new controller from the site installed into an original Model T AT and was wondering what the reason was behind having to short J1 on the RP2040, or if that is still needed.


I was confused by your reference to RP2040 since that is the microcontroller used on ...

I'd guess that after his xwhatsit stock has been depleted ,


You correctly spotted the reason why I said that I am surprised :)


I think we are talking past each other, somehow. Perhaps a language barrier issue. Not sure.

Why would you expect his xwhatsit stock to be depleted by this point ...

It does not have to do with lead times. I guess that it has to do with stock and economies of scale.

The Leyden-Jar was completed on May 2023.


I believe your timelines are off.

Yes, the schematic for Rev. 3 was published in May 2023.

Ellipse announced the full-size F keyboards in April 2023 ...

Are these keyboards shipped with xwhatsit-like controllers ? Really ?
I thought that Ellipse was using the newer controllers.


He will be, on the F122, new B104, and B122.

With big productions, there's this little thing called "lead times". It takes time to get all of the ducks in order, get ...

And I can see you've got quite a few more steps than just doing the build in the utils folder.


It matters what the source of your "utils" folder is.

If you just cloned the repo hosted at purdea.ro and built from that, the util will not detect your keyboard.

You need to apply some additional ...

Hi,
does anyone know, if a VIAL compatible firmware can be installed on this xwhatsit F122 controller?


I'm not aware of one, but I can throw one together for you...


Okay, feel free to give this a try .

The huge disclaimer I will attach here is, not only do I not own an F122, I also do not ...

nac5605 wrote: 19 Nov 2024, 23:27 Can't wait for my B122 to arrive!

Just FYI but I think you might've posted to the wrong thread.

AngryCockroach wrote: 17 Nov 2024, 09:18 Hi,
does anyone know, if a VIAL compatible firmware can be installed on this xwhatsit F122 controller?

I'm not aware of one, but I can throw one together for you...

I believe the F104/FSSK standard ANSI/ISO sets Fn as the key between Right Alt and Right Ctrl.
Sorry, yes, just in case it wasn't clear to everyone based on what I wrote, that was what I was trying to communicate: on HHKB split shift boards, Fn is the extra key from splitting the shift, but ...

I have no idea what that blank key originally did.
My assumption is that it was "originally" Esc, as I have to believe it only came into being on Type 5 when they decided to make a bigger keyboard that also had "IBM Enhanced Layout" style ANSI/ISO variants. I assume this because it has no ...

NathanA would you be able to post a guide to making the various flashable keymaps including the hex and vil files?


Hmm didn't I send you instructions on how to do it in PMs once upon a time? I'll have to re-look at past messaging history but I feel like I did...

The .vil files have always been ...

Those HHKB "fans" who use a FSSK or F104 should be excommunicated from the Church! :evilgeek:


:lol:


The Happy Hackers appear to be modeled on a Sun Type 3 which have a ton of keys. I'd recommend using that to decide what the default layout should be for a HHKB style on a larger keyboard ...

RainehDaze wrote: 12 Nov 2024, 11:20 Not really sure what to do exactly with one of my extra ` keys.

Following up on my super-informal poll from several weeks back, regardless of what you choose to change it to, which of those two keys do you expect you would change: the far-left one, or the far-right one?

The Chyrosran22 keyboard has now shipped!
This oughta be fun. :)

The bootloader mode is accessible by a key combination or more easily by clicking the Enter Bootloader button in the pandrew utility available in that same zip file mentioned above.
As an additional reminder, you can also enter ...

[...] or is this keyboard a technological experiment and goat rodeo in the guise of a retail-ready product?



I totally agree with your rant, by the way. The walls of text are intimidating and so unnecessary. I'd love to see someone delete half of it.


I've touched on this in past responses I ...

I tried it out on my scumyc. The firmware is fine,

Good to hear; thank you! I take it, then, that you had no problem with any of the bottom row keys, and that key remapping in Vial worked fine (the correct key got remapped to the correct value)?

but the script to flash it on an arm Mac wasn't ...

Calling F62 owners as firmware testers

I'm adding scumyc layout support to the Vial firmware, but I'm doing it by adding it as a layout option in the main F62 firmware, rather than treating the scumyc board as a completely separate model the way that it has been done in QMK up to this point.

I ...

"if I keep pressing a key over and over, it stops working for roughly five seconds. I THINK this is “One Shot Keys”."
I had never used the One Shot Keys feature of QMK until I read this post, after which I decided to read up on it and try it myself.

I do not think that this person understands ...

I suggest erasing the eeprom and starting over in terms of flashing the firmware again.


It sounded to me like he tried my Vial firmware for the original F62 + xwhatsit, which configures and drives the solenoid identically to all of my other Vial firmwares, and *also* completely wipes EEPROM ...

I wrote up steps I took to build the utility here . Hopefully they will be useful for others.


Looks pretty good. There are ways, though, that this could be tightened up even further, if you are interested.

I proposed simply running the build.sh script as that does most of the prep work for you ...

Hey guys. I am using a Rev 2 Xwhatsit controller with an original Kishy that I have had working for many years now. I did have the original buzzer board and am trying to get the solenoid working. It does technically function but is very weak. With the default firmware from the "beta" side of QMK ...

OK, I've made some progress. The utility now sees the keyboard, but when I try to start the signal level monitor, I get an error pop-up that says:

Unknown keyboard (you may need to update the util version)!

I tried to run the command to add a new keyboard:

python2 generate_layout.py > kbd ...

Assuming that NathanA's post is correct, [...]


I'm the one who compiled all of the Vial firmwares, and who patched the util to be compatible with them, so yes, I'm pretty sure I know what I am talking about (at least when it comes to this). :D


I pulled it from http://purdea.ro/qmk_firmware ...

Also, has anyone been able to get the pandrew utility to work on Linux? I've managed to build it (tried both hidapi variants), and it doesn't detect my keyboard, even when run as root.


And where did you obtain the sources to build it?

If you pulled from pandrew's repo, that version is not ...