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On my M60 keyboard, I can switch back and forth between USB and bluetooth with a single button press, which is super nice for running two PCs at once. When I sw
by D13Fd 3y ago
On my M60 keyboard, I can switch back and forth between USB and bluetooth with a single button press, which is super nice for running two PCs at once. When I switch, the color of the keyboard lighting switches too, so I can tell at a glance which computer the keyboard is connected to. All of that was easy by just tweaking some of the Python code that shows up as an external USB drive.
But with QMK/Via, you can't really tweak much on the VIA app. And the app itself is fiddly, where for my keyboard at least you have to select an old version and load a configuration file every time you want to tweak something. And it seems like you can't actually change much with the backlight, and there is no way to change the USB/Bluetooth state by key (at least on my keyboard).
To go deeper with QWK/Via, I'd have to recompile the firmware. Which is fine I suppose, but I'd also have to track down exactly what version of QMK my keyboard uses and get the code, if it's even available. Then I'd have to deal with a re-flashing process and a risk of bricking it. It's a much bigger headache than just tweaking some scripts on an external drive.