But especially the visualization one could be useful for a lot of keyboards. Finally: it's of course possible to do away with accessing the registers directly, and there are 2 notable successful efforts {both only for one particular family of ARM chips, namely Freescale/NXP Kinetis - this covers Teensy 3.x, LC and Input Club's keyboards}, namely PJRC's arduino core for Teensies and Jacob's (a.k.a. No compilation or flashing required, so it means a 10 second and easy change. Use Git or checkout with SVN using the web URL. All the Input Club git repos can be found on GitHub. GitHub Download Usage Kiibohd_Configurator is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Or better yet, figure out how to build your own! Get the latest product news, special offersand interesting behind-the-scenes stories from us. If the keyboard is qmk compatible but its not in the vias compatible list, can you enable it anyway? The files can be opened using any 3d model/cad program that can work with .step files (e.g. And thats it for this update! While the firmware was originally based on the Teensy 2.0 and 3.0 codebases the original schematics and bootloader were forked from the McHCK project. Unless otherwise specified, we use GPLv3 for software and the CERN OHL v1.2 for things we work on. Some of these functions, such as USB, will output a USB code that is easy to validate as a press/release event. It contains the code for the upcoming automated Zadig driver installation (no more messing with Zadig!). Much of the work on the case has been figuring out how to injection mold the bottom foot. Written for the infinity and infinity ergodox keyboards, Support for Teensy 2 (partial), Teensy 2.0++, Teensy 3.0, Teensy 3.1, aims to be easy to use as the name suggests, Compatible with a wide range of keyboards/PCBs, for example Costar replacements controllers, JD40, various Duck keyboards, Phantom, Very terse, abstract keyboard layout and wiring description, Uses C++17 templates to generate the code for your firmware, Set the output pins (typically columns) and the input pins (typically rows), Loop across the matrix, turning on one output pin and reading each input pin, Using the row/column position of the key, decide what to do (send keypress, change layers, whatever), If a key was pressed, add it to the buffer, When the whole matrix has been read, send the buffer over USB. Follow this tutorial to learn how. Either that, or we have to add back the onekey test keyboard for it. A custom bootloader (based off of McHCK) is available. BOSSA is a tool used to flash MCUs with the SAM-BA integrated bootloader which will be used for manufacturing of SAM4S keyboards. I want to fix a little the instructions too. @fredizzimo I would love to help out here. Instead of re-parsing the KLL files, the KLL compiler generates a kll.json file which contains detailed information about the compiled KLL layout. @profet23, He has all sorts of cool things planned out for the desktop configurator all in the name of R, G and B. On the Ergodoxes being able to share keymaps, I like the idea of that, but I'm not sure how that would be done without some symlinking - I (and I'm sure @ezuk) would like to keep the keymaps contained in the ergodox_ez folder. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. These are generally released around the same time as the case. The KLL compiler is automatically retrieved during the build process and will warn you if your KLL compiler is too old. tmk_visualizer. All of the keyboards released by Keebio so far have QMK support, and Keebio is involved with the QMK organization as a collaborator. cgi-bin/build_layout.bash c07058ec0a6820f5990bb3cd6347dd81159fe7b0ee5204 KType standard "KType-Standard-.kll" "KType-Standard-1.kll" 2>&1 The goal of this shared library (kiibohd.so) was to be able to control the KLL processing cycle-by-cycle in order to construct any sort of situation that may occur on a keyboard. Keyboards used to have big bezels because you could place your keyboard controller chips in those areas. QMK Toolbox supports the following bootloaders: If there's an interest in any others, they can be added if their commands are known. PC emulation sounds awesome - testing would be a dream :) The serial and visualiser sound fun to mess with as well! to use Codespaces. The configurator is comprised of two parts, the UI (the configurator download) and the KiiConf server (which handles generating the firmware image). So instead of writing to MCU registers directly, programmers for ARM very often use a software layer (called HAL) between their code and the MCU hardware. If youre looking to get everything in one: wireless, QMK/VIA enabled, customizable, hot-swappable, budget-friendly, and more, you may want to consider the Keychron K Pro series (including K2 Pro, 2023 Keychron | Wireless Mechanical Keyboards for Mac, Windows and Android, ISO & ANSI Q3 & Q4 & Q6 & K8 PBT Keycap Set, Low Profile Gateron Mechanical Switch Set. Originally started by matt3o for the WhiteFox keyboard, KiiConf is the web-based configuration utility for our keyboards. Being able to tweak the keymap in real time makes me far more likely to try different layouts. So far, I'm leaning to using QMK with the Infinity Ergodox, even though it looks like I can't use the LCD (which was one of the main reasons to get the Input Club version, but meh). Maybe newer versions are required. Press J to jump to the feed. This is the main Kiibohd Firmware. For Homebrew users, it is also available as a Cask: This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository. This is the awesome desktop app that jbondeson has been working on. KLL is the DSL that HaaTa wrote to define keyboard functionality in a distinct and widely compatible way. You signed in with another tab or window. Both the WhiteFox and Infinity Ergodox hardware also support 100 fps animations. I was able to compile using the Makefile file for lc but I couldn't do it with the Makefile.3.2. Which the configurator backend then uses to generate a firmware bundle. Would you accept something like this? Learn more. but the change is instantaneous, no more flashing the firmware (after you initially update the firmware to be VIA-enabled of course). Overleaf was used to compile/maintain the docs in the past. git submodule sync --recursive followed by git submodule update --init --recursive. The Kiibohd firmware supports a lot of other keyboards, but these are more obscure/custom/lesser known. Is my understanding that these features and more are not present in Kiibohd correct, or haven't I just not looked at the right parts? sign in But dont worry, youll have to fully open up the case and follow some special instructions (wont be labeled) in order to activate the built-in bootloader. The K-Type animations run at 100 fps. Input Club Wiki. Read the Docs! JSON is used by both the configurator/KiiConf as well as host-side KLL to gather more information that is available to the KLL compiler, but not the final output generated by the KLL compiler. The video below demonstrates how to create a macro command of a screenshot (Shift-Command-4) on macOS, so you can take a screenshot with a single key. Macros not working on Ergodox infinity with Kiibohd Configurator 0 /r/mechanicalkeyboards . GitHub KLL - Keyboard Layout Language Spec KLL Web Configurator - latest Kiibohd Presentations Scanned Documents The Infinity Ergodox support for normal keyboard functionality should be as stable as the QMK in general, and all basic and advanced features should work. Feel free to use kiidrv in your own projects as its fully opensource under GPLv3 and LGPLv3, and just a useful tool in general. Yes those makefiles comes straight from the TMK and haven't been modifyed so they should probably be deleted. Best of luck, hope this is not too late. Even though remapping software and custom keyboards are getting more traction among enthusiasts and even beginners, you still cant fully customize every key (and different layers) on a keyboard and you may need to set up everything again (without onboard memory) when you use another laptop or PC. While well still be using a custom dfu bootloader to handle layout flashing, this built-in bootloader means that well no longer need an external tool to update to bootloader. TMK (where QMK was derived from late 2014) was started back in 2010 by hasu and the kiibohd controller firmware, by HaaTa, early 2011. I still have no idea why it doesn't work for you, if it does for @leizzer. Work has been done to fix issues with KLL macros as well as some offset errors which were causing some keyboards to reset (yep, off by 1 bug). I think other keyboards will have the same need to share keymaps between different boards, EG if/when the planck is released with a different mcu (like the at90usb1286.). Rather than attempting to bundle a compilation environment, the configurator uses a KiiConf server to handle firmware generation. Not only does it give you an indication on which expressions are having issues, it also provides developers with more information on what the problem actually is (the trickiest part when reporting a bug is providing enough relevant and detailed information to actually solve the issue). Generally this is not possible since either the controller can not updated (most keyboard controllers are very dumb 8 bit microcontrollers) OR the firmware is security locked. Hasu's Alternative Controller Guide by RoastPotatoes, TMK Layer mapping guide by RoastPotatoes, Discussion, Written by /u/jetpacktuxedo for his microboard, Written and maintained by /u/metalliqaz, Main discussion/repository on Geekhack. The second is automating the Zadig driver installation. But those two are very unlikely to happen during normal use. The RTOS kernel doesn't have to be actually used for TMK/QMK, but it offers some nice features IMO (so TMK uses it the way it's written now). Stop. It also has many features as QMK (RGB, BLE, split keyboards), so I really recommend giving it a try if you're into more DIY stuff. You just plug it in, keyboard shows up as USB drive and you can edit python files which are stored there. https://www.inputclub.comhttps://configurator.inputclub.comhttps://github.com/kiibohd/kiiconf/wikiThis video covers how to use layers on your Input Club keyb. Check out the video above demonstrating how to remap a Light Effect key on the top right corner of the Keychron K8 Pro keyboard to the Eject key with VIA software, so you can use a shortcut to put your Mac to sleep (Command-Option-Eject), or even remap the fn key with ease. So based on that, I would say it's safe to remove it. That leaves us with more time to discuss the direction we are going, and gives @jackhumbert, @ezuk and everyone else possibilities for their inputs. I will start to work on it immediately, but without promising any time table, as I'm probably not very likely to get much done before my summer holidays start in a couple of weeks. 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 . Referral/affiliate links, subreddits ads, begging, and low-effort posts will be removed. (I don't like the LCD backlight animation, would rather have instant feedback when I switch layers instead of a slow fade.) As you requested, I will keep the refactoring quite minimal, and only restrict it to things that makes it easier to add ChibiOS support. This is extra tricky due to the hotswap pcb needing to be braced against the steel plate without having any switches inserted. Adding VIA support to a keyboard is not particularly straight forward, but if you are interested in doing so and have good working knowledge of QMK, checkout MechMerlin's videos on his efforts to add VIA support to various boards. I was also planning to get rid of the mbed specific common.mk file, as it's almost the same as the common.mk file in the tmk_core directory, and otherwise ChibiOS would have yet another variant. Indeed, its not perfect.If you type a lot daily, like for emails, texts, photo editing, video editing, etc, you may want to make every keystroke as efficient as possible in order to be more productive. So were now one more step closer to achieving full KLL 0.5 support. Now I will get even less work done as I seek out that perfect layout. The QMK firmware on the other hand is moving forward at a much faster pace, and it has has some very attractive features for me, compared to the TMK firmware. The next thing would be to have the LCDs working. --> Wiki <-- If you have questions start here. Please Open Source is very important to Input Club . No compiler was made for KLL 0.2 and lower. The QMK Documentation page is pretty expansive, and tries to document all features available. This guide from pjrc may also be a good place to get started. Parsing rules first determine what kind of expression before extracting detailed information. This will be the first keyboard design since 2015 to use a new MCU! The firmware flashed to the keyboard must have VIA support enabled, and you can find pre-compiled .hex/.bin firmware files with VIA support here: VIA Firmware Downloads. 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. Kiibohd Controller. Arguably the "default" and most common software solution for custom keymapping is QMK, with QMK Toolbox as their software interface to flash custom mappings. Next up, git repos! The community encompasses all sorts of input devices, such as keyboards, mice, and MIDI devices. The Infinity Ergodox interconnect runs at 4.5 megabaud. If that doesn't work, it may be a QMK issue with the default bootloader. Read the Docs! Why QMK/VIA is one of the most essential features for a custom keyboard? With a symbol size of 8 bits, that would put the link at a 562 500 Hz polling rate . Also note that the chibios_test "keyboard" has the structure for keyboards with subprojects, which is needlessly complex to serve as an example. The BusPirate and OpenOCD are used in manufacturing, though we use JTAG if possible (same cable, much faster but is not supported by all MCUs). Then we can come back to qmk_firmware once it is updated/fixed, it's just to test the concept :). PS. Thats why software such as QMK/VIA or Vial exist and are getting popular. The Input Club Infinity 60%, which shipped in early 2015, was likely the first production keyboard to support USB NKRO on Windows, Linux and macOS out of the box with no extra drivers or configuration necessary . KMK firmware is awesome. No B2B Commercial services or Donation Crowdfunding. Input Club 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. I think I have the basis working, in my TMK fork as discussed here. For both the one key and your "totoroboard". Work on the K-Type started (at least the KLL portion) started even before the Infinity 60% launched (just a few days prior) back in October 2014 while HaaTa was flying to Japan (to go drinking with hasu again ). This is a collection of flashing tools packaged into one app. Kiibohds! Use the Sticky! And none of them has even got a single comment by @tmk. 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