How To Program Your Keyboard With Code Instead Of QMK Configurator

[@Destinied]

@Josean Martinez thank you for a nice walk through, still waiting for a sequel to this video as you promised 0:31

[@jaspersanchez7606]

waiting for the part 2 just finished building my first corne keyboard thank you for your full tutorial :D

[@MacsekU2B]

Thanks for the 1st part of your video. 😉 Please publish the 2nd part as well, we are waiting for it. Thanks.

[@StephaneGoeuriot]

Great video! So excited for the next part!

[@anotherhomeysan]

Your keyboard videos are great, thank you for doing these

[@malpern]

This was a great video. I look forward to part 2.

[@christender3614]

We need part 2 - we’d like to know about useful things you can’t just do with QMK configurator or even VIA. Subscribed!

[@yourstruly2728]

I am REALLY grateful for the video. I was stuck trying to flash my split Redox keyboard. In the end I flashed it through the QMK MSYS, but without your video, I doubt I would be able to complete my first keyboard prodject

[@konstantinrebrov675]

This is why I love C. You can program literally anything using it!

[@po6577]

Dude the first video i see on your channel is how you setup your mac book, You feel so much different now

[@VictorVedmich]

❤❤❤ love it!! Tell the secret how do you do - terminal transparency and you is on the background? Is it on post edit process or how ?

[@temyraverdana6421]

Amazin useful video. Thanks a lot

[@joseanmartinez]

Glad it was helpful!

[@naktaal]

Great video! Is part 2 coming out anytime soon?

[@Luki-w4d]

Id like to customize the knob on the Epomaker Shadow X, but its not listed. Since idc about bluetooth id like to override the firmware to only use wired mode and use the knob to switch ie. audio output devices of my machine. Do you have any advice?

[@razielamadorrios7284]

Great video! looking forward to part 2, will be so nice to use: tap dance plus marcos!!

[@tuananhdo1870]

Hi, This keyboard on this layout is wireless or wired version? I heard that wireless version support ZMK and the wired version support QMK. Is that correct?

[@enterusername7746]

This helped me alot. Thank you. Whats the difference between r2g and rev1? And how did you know which version to pick?

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey! Happy to hear that! The r2g is a “ready to go” version of the corne that I believe comes with all components soldered onto the pcb.

[@rishabhrawat9969]

thanks for sharing. does it apply to ZMK as well?

[@tuananhdo1870]

What layout are you using? qwerty or colemak

[@ArturBravel]

I am confused by the special characters. For example KC_1 is described in the official docs as the key for 1 and ! with the latter being typed while holding shift. What I desire is to have layer 3 dedicated fully to special characters and layer two having all the numbers and navigation keys. What I do not desire is to fire off a ! character when shift+1 is pressed on layer 1. Same goes for example for the . key that comss along with the > character on the Shift. In my case, both characters would be on layer 3 in parallel. Is there a way to separate those combo keys or is it always that if shift is pressed that the other character is typed?

[@manuelexposito7294]

I have not finished the video yet but it's going great so far. I was mesmerized by the terminal theme!! how can I look for it? is it zsh?

[@babisflou87]

If we add a new layer will it be visible in VIAL after the flash?

[@JeremiaSamp]

Best QMK tutorial on YT... ) Can you show a code example for RGB layout indicator? I struggle to find some code to start from

[@hectorserrano9314]

So, considering on Layer three you have the arrows, I ask this question: How do you go about shift selecting a word? Like, say you're highlighting a word you want to remove and you use shift to range by word, but then you have to enter layer three in order to use the arrows, but then shift is not there in layer three 🤣 Or how does it look if you want to cmd + tab (to move through apps in mac os) + arrows to move through the apps faster instead tabbing every time. These subtle things are the things I look forward to watching you go through with the corne keyboard. I genuinely want to make sure I'm not giving up to any mechanics before pulling the trigger and acquiring one.

[@velisaw]

Usually, you'd have all those keys duplicated in each layer. My key map for example (almost default from the crkbd/corne github) has shift in all layers except the third one (when you press both fn keys together) and arrow keys on the first layer (left fn button held down). So when I need to highlight a word I'd press shift + left fn key + h/j/k/l. Same thing goes for alt + tab + fn + hjkl. At first I'd recommend flashing the firmware which has VIA support, so that you can remap keys on the fly without reflashing your keyboard every time. You can just flash the hex from crkbd github. And when you figure out what works best for you in terms of layout, you can add some advanced things like tap dance and build your own firmware

[@hectorserrano9314]

@@velisaw This answer was exactly what I was looking to clarify. Thank you very much, @velisaw

[@ellison438]

What if the keyboard is not on the list in the qmk keyboard list? How do I add my own keyboard?

[@mattyn909]

how do you configure the pins for this

[@KuzyoYaroslav]

Can you please share link to your keyboard layout, i have bought glove 80 recently and looking for inspirations ?

[@festasalvatore_]

Really cool video! I have a question: if I were to add italian accents to a layer (eg. àèìòù áéíóú ÀÈÌÒÙ ÁÉÍÓÚ) whats the best practice to do this? I should include the keymap_italian.h and then use the IT_** or the KC_**? I hope I made myself clear, thak you in advance!

[@umpolpip4619]

I need help with XP-Driver display app to modify config.xml file. The display tablet has 20 shortcut Keys and 2 Rollers. The IT guy from XP told me that the shortcut key code of the driver is composed of VK Code + Scan Code. For example: 1|Width|W|87:17 I was able to punch in most keyboard keys then saved to update the config file. I got lots of them (about 90) except the uppercase and symbols. I asked XP for the table but he would not give. Where can I find the published table or simple Windows-10 command or Shell to get the full set of such VK:Scan Scan code? I can use excel to arrange in the : format. Thanks a lot,

[@M0N60]

Thanks for the vid. I followed your tutorial on a windows machine. When you generated a .hex file I generated a .uf2 file which could not be opened by the qmk toolbox. I have no idea why the file formats differ and I have no idea to change it. Do you have an idea how to solve that? (Not a coder btw. - Just a dude who wants a custom keyboard)

[@Holly18th]

hi!! great video but i have a unique situation that i really want help with ): so i have the doodboard/duckboard_R2 and I've been able to flash a new keymap into it via QMK, but doing so gets rid of the default animation the OLED screen comes with ): any possible way to get it back while keeping my new keymap?

[@baltimoreace]

Could you do something like this for the Nice Nano controllers? I like your videos but those Nice Nanos aren't compatible with QMK

[@juancruzdelatorre7923]

Great video! Have you looked into properly setting the clangd lsp? The recommendation is to use `qmk generate-compilation-database` but that doesn't seem to be enough. I've managed to get it working by manually setting each necessary include as an argument in the `.clangd` config file, but it was an extremely tedious and manual process and it still needs to be updated after adding new imports or macros.

[@cathrerinezetadrones3169]

In the follow up video can you demonstrate how to set up RGB designs per layer?

[@jordanray2245]

Hey Josean, Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful. How could you set a condition where a layer would be activated based on a specific application being active? I've read that you can use AutoHotkey to do that, but I'm hoping to have a way where I can make my custom keyboard perform that task for me independently. Thanks in advance!

[@darkheaven66]

Hi, nice video. You should also talk about how to change the display on the screen

[@underscore-LJ]

Great vid. Has anyone done this for sayo devices?

[@_Gart_]

i can't seem to compile with a rules.mk

[@rzlink001]

Why not zmk?

[@kdiaz8054]

Where is the follow up video?

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[@carshoesch]

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[@beatwrecker7343]

ok... no matter what i do my qmk msys will NOT COMPILE A HEX FILE and im about to give up after an entire year of design. i couldnt use direct pin matrix and im about to give up completely... not ONE video has ANYTHING about how to fix the errors i get and it drives me INSANE. i am genuinely AMAZED that as smart as you keebers are, not ONE OF YOU has thought "hey, maybe beginners will get FKING ERRORS USING MSYS" like... really man? come onnnnnnnnnnn this is craziness. beginners have no chance anymore with this software and its intensely discouraging to people who want to even step foot into custom keyboards.

[@PaulPineau-w1h]

you did nothing that can't be done with QMK and easier - where are all the 'only available' features?

[@chezchezchezchez]

Why do you keep saying "If you're on a macbook?" Don't you mean: "If you're on a mac?" Why BOOK? lol