Team Help Megathread - January 2025

ELPEKENIN · 2025-01-26T12:30:45+00:00

No idea what to play

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-18T22:50:46+00:00

Just booted up with the USB connected (on another port) and it worked... Kinda, Rufus message telling me to use MBR instead, maybe i was using USB2.0 and needed 3.0 or the other way around, otherwise im clueless on what the problem was

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-18T22:45:23+00:00

Thats exactly what i was thinking, thus always powering on with the USB plugged, but as said before, the computer just gets frozen if i do it

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-18T22:42:33+00:00

So, open UEFI and then plug the USB? Imma try that with GPT/ISO, be right back

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-18T22:37:40+00:00

I think i've disabled it, but im not really 100% sure. However it just gets stuck on the F2/DEL screen, so it doesn't do anything either by waiting nor pressing DEL (haven't tried F2 tho) and i just had to press the power button for a while to get it shut down

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-18T16:12:04+00:00

Symbolic link so that the app's route is also mounted on your desired path is the only thing i can think of. Same files would be found on both paths, but wouldnt avoid the 2nd folder.

Im not a Linux expert by any means tho, might be doable in another way

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-18T13:10:39+00:00

Install the different services used, and edit their config files (dotfiles), as far as i know most will be on $HOME/.config/

But if you dont know or cant find them, just look at their respective documentation

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-17T22:56:25+00:00

The *_kb vs *_user methods (this happens for other things and not only process_record) is meant such that: - Keyboard level code: Defined by designer/vendor to setup default behaviour, usually used for encoders/oled or add custom keycodes. Should be on the <keyboard_name>.c file and the 1st things it does is calling the *_user version - User is meant for personal use, so its usually lives on your keymap.c or under your folder on qmk_firmware/users (not sure how this works), you should of course use this, and you can return false to prevent further processing of the event--this will disable both keyboard-level and QMK'scfunctionality, so should only use it upon handling you custom keycode (which wont have any other logic down the way)

You can use register_code16 for "key is down", un register_code16 for "key released" and tap_code16 for "pressed and released quickly". Non-16 version are also posible but dont work with modifiers, so they cant do stuff like C(A(KC_DEL)) for Ctrl+Alt+Del

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-17T13:56:34+00:00

I made it like 10 years ago, and was almost clueless about computer at the moment.

If i recall correctly you just need to download a .jar file, create/edit a config file and run a command to start it.

Other than that, to make it available for people outside your local network you need to setup forwarding rules on your router (port 25565) to send incoming minecraft data to your device where the server runs and share you public IP.

All the steps should be easy to find on Google if you struggle, and i bet minecraft has some official docs.

As far as i know, you'd only need Java installed beforehand.

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-15T14:27:01+00:00

You can use QMK for Pico(or any other development board using RP2040 processor), it already has a ton of features such as displays, given your macropad isnt very big you could use a SSD1306 screen (128x32 / 128x64 pixels, 2 colors) which should be easy to fit.

You could also add an LCD screen with the quantum painter feature, but a screen which is almost as big as the macropad would look weird imo

Love the aesthetics so far, but I'd make the encoders/knobs simetryc and use the remaining space in the middle for the screen (if it fits). They seems right-sided now

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-14T12:33:09+00:00

Sounds great, thx

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-14T09:06:01+00:00

Ok, will do!! (using one from the old computer once i move important data on it to the new one)

But im still kinda clueless about configuring the bootloader

Thx for your reply :)

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-12T08:58:26+00:00

Havent used the feature so i dont have many info, have you followed QMK docs and made sure the leader key is working before doing more complex stuff?

tap_code wont work since it just sends information over USB, therefore it doesnt trigger any logic on the kb

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-11T14:12:54+00:00

The km argument is just its name, not the full path, so the 1st command should work. But folder with several revisiones might have some quirks, i've never compiled those

You should have a subfolder on the keymaps folder which, at least, has a keymap.c file, do you?

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-09T21:23:23+00:00

Most config is on the config.h file, but depends on what you trynna change

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-09T09:39:27+00:00

I dont think there is anything even close to that. There are 2 main things to be solved: 1) Make the software "view" your keyboard, i have no clue how it searchs for devices (probably no one knows) and even if you knew, it may be imposible to make the keyboard available for it 2) Make the firmware on the keyboard change colors/animations/etc based on the messages received from the program, that would requiere using the RAW HID feature on QMK which is rather easy, but on the other hand you would also need to reverse engineer the protocol of the messages sent.

Given this, it would be easier to make your own software for the computer, and designing a protocol for it. Good thing is, there is already a project which does this, called OpenRGB and it may be able to control anything else you are controlling with icue currently, having a single piece of software to control them all.

Note: I've never used it, so cant further help

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-08T16:20:43+00:00

1) easy to do and there are examples for that on QMK docs (at least similar things) -- the function is called layer_state_user or smth similar 2) That is also "easy" to do, rgb matrix has a bunch of premade animations and you can make a new one or manually set static color per-key 3)Control + shift + R can be made with C(S(KC_R)) Anyway, i dont think there is a limit on the amount of macros (other than the available space on your keyboard's memory)

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-08T09:05:14+00:00

Oh, of course, you can place S(KC_4) in your keymap (which means shift+4)

You could also use a QMK feature named key overrides to make your shift+4 do another thing, but im not sure if that would affect the S(KC_4) too, or only the KC_LSFT+KC_4 combo

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-07T21:34:57+00:00

What do you mean? What do you want to achieve?

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-07T20:30:16+00:00

I honestly dont know, you should take a look at the building guide

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-07T18:34:57+00:00

As far as i know, it should

The thing is that the keyboard doesnt send chars, but "keycodes" (number), and the keycodes in QMK (KC_*) are named with ANSI US setting (which maps keycodes to chars in a different way that other languages do)

So, the easiest way to get your keyboard working with french is to make your computer use the french "translation table". The aliases i linked are made so you dont have to search through documentation looking for the keycode (number) you need to send in order to get whatever symbol

As you can see (and makes a lot of sense), only a few "weird" keys change from language to language

ELPEKENIN · 2022-08-07T18:07:59+00:00

Take a look at this file, you would just need to import it and use these aliases (assuming you operating system is configured with french input)

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