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Hplog
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HplogReach out to support, they will help you out.
HaaTa
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HplogIf you flash the firmware, and it's stays in DFU mode, that can mean one of two things:
1) Corrupted firmware/incorrect firmware
2) Hard lockup (unlikely in this case)
Make sure the firmware is a similar size. And make sure you are compiling for the correct chip (mk20dx256vlh7). Also, if you can get dfu to list, USB is fine.
Second, you need to flash the left_kiibohd.dfu.bin to the left side and right_kiibohd.dfu.bin to the right side. Other than the shape, both the left and right sides are the same keyboard so you need to flash different firmware on each.
As for the right side not powering up. Just checking, is this a laptop? Some laptops do not provide as much current as the USB spec defines. Try a powered hub or a desktop computer to see if they at least turn on. The LCDs will turn on with 5 V applied to the cable, no need for any data on the USB bus.
Make sure the firmware is a similar size. And make sure you are compiling for the correct chip (mk20dx256vlh7). Also, if you can get dfu to list, USB is fine.
Second, you need to flash the left_kiibohd.dfu.bin to the left side and right_kiibohd.dfu.bin to the right side. Other than the shape, both the left and right sides are the same keyboard so you need to flash different firmware on each.
As for the right side not powering up. Just checking, is this a laptop? Some laptops do not provide as much current as the USB spec defines. Try a powered hub or a desktop computer to see if they at least turn on. The LCDs will turn on with 5 V applied to the cable, no need for any data on the USB bus.
Hplog
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Dec 23, 2015
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HaaTaYeah... none of that shit works. I must have managed to received the only two PCBs that are even more useless than paperweights.
Support wasn't very productive, since like every other person that's impatiently waiting, Massdrop does not have _ANY_ PCBs available, so I'm probably at the very end of the list after all these other nice people waiting on whoever to finish producing new boards.
You mention a "left_kiibohd.dfu.bin" and a "right_kiibohd.dfu.bin", but no where do I even see mentioned a left and right difference, outside of choosing a left KLL layout and a right KLL layout and compiling different firmware for both sides, individually. Are you sure your documentation is up to date? I'm following your instructions given in https://github.com/kiibohd/controller/wiki
Support wasn't very productive, since like every other person that's impatiently waiting, Massdrop does not have _ANY_ PCBs available, so I'm probably at the very end of the list after all these other nice people waiting on whoever to finish producing new boards.
You mention a "left_kiibohd.dfu.bin" and a "right_kiibohd.dfu.bin", but no where do I even see mentioned a left and right difference, outside of choosing a left KLL layout and a right KLL layout and compiling different firmware for both sides, individually. Are you sure your documentation is up to date? I'm following your instructions given in https://github.com/kiibohd/controller/wiki
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I can only get one side of the ergodox to work at one time. When I plug in the left side alone to my computer, it works correctly (as the left). If I plug in the right side into the left, it doesn't even get power. If I plug in the right side alone to my computer, it works as a mirrored left (eg, the home row is FDSA, not JKL: ). If I plug the left into the right, the left doesn't get power and the right stays mirrored.
If I reflash with a precompiled kiibohd.dfu.bin from input.club I end up back at square one. If I try to build and flash new firmware, it stays in DFU mode. If I try and modify the keyboard layout, something goes wrong and it stays in DFU mode.
I'm not an idiot. I'm a software developer. I've hacked on and used tmk_keyboard extensively with custom configurations and never had a problem. I know how to flash microcontrollers. I've written TCP/IP code for an AVR to parse a JSON api and display the build status of a Bamboo CI server on a toy stoplight. None of this is new to me. But this ergodox is honestly the biggest and most expensive electronics junk project I've wasted money on.
My LCDs work. Considering both sides get power and "work" when plugged in individually, I can safely assume that my USB connectors are functional. But as a complete set, this ergodox is garbage.
Outside of what seems to be the only solution of putting this in a box and pretending this never happened, I don't know what to do except to complain about it before putting it in the box. I had high hopes.