Source code for the vckyb6 firmware
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readme.md

Welcome to the Mostly Harmless vckyb6

Introduction

vckyb6 is a small macro pad that offers quick access to common keyboard shortcuts that might be useful during video conferences and meetings.

The vckyb6 Keyboard

Why?

Keyboard shortcuts are good ways of quickly doing something - as compared to using the mouse to click around the screen. Most video conferencing applications have built-in keyboard shortcuts to aid activities such as mute/un-mute or toggling the video or raising the hand and so on.

Most of these keyboard shortcuts, unfortunately, require the use of single or multiple keys (eg. CTRL + D or CTRL + ALT + C). These can not only be difficult to remember but also tough for children to use or use with one-hand.

Enter: Custom Keyboards

A custom programmable keyboard can send complex keystrokes or key sequences or even macros to the computer on the click of a single button. This means that one need not remember complex keyboard shortcuts and can instead just press a button to do the job.

The custom keyboard can be even have multiple layers of shortcuts so that it can be used in a similar manner with multiple video conferencing tools.

Compiling and Flashing the keymap

  1. Close the qmk_firmware repository from:

    https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/

    You can also use this mirror on sovran.dev:

    https://sovran.dev/mh/qmk_firmware

  2. Pull in the qmk_firmware submodules:

    cd qmk_firmware/
    make git-submodule
    
  3. Install the qmk command-line interface:

    apt-get install python3 python3-pip
    pip3 install qmk
    
  4. Setup qmk dependencies:

    cd qmk_firmware/
    qmk setup
    

    Running qmk setup should install the necessary tools required to compile and flash the keyboard firmware. On Debian, this will do the equivalent of:

    apt-get install build-essential avr-gcc arm-none-eabi-gcc avrdude dfu-util dfu-programmer
    

    Now you should be able to compile your firmware.

  5. Clone this repository into keyboards/mh/:

    cd qmk_firmware/
    mkdir keyboards/mh/
    cd keyboards/mh/
    git clone https://sovran.dev/mh/vckyb6/
    
  6. Now compile the firmware:

    make mh/vckyb6:default
    
  7. Reset your keyboard and put it into programming mode and then flash the firmware:

    make mh/vckyb6:default:flash
    

USB Messages:

You should see messages similar to these when you plugin the keyboard. Run sudo dmesg to check:

 usb 1-3.2: new full-speed USB device number 18 using xhci_hcd
 usb 1-3.2: New USB device found, idVendor=beef, idProduct=0008, bcdDevice= 0.01
 usb 1-3.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
 usb 1-3.2: Product: vckb6
 usb 1-3.2: Manufacturer: Mostly Harmless
 input: Mostly Harmless vckb6 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3.2/1-3.2:1.0/0003:BEEF:0008.0078/input/input232
 hid-generic 0003:BEEF:0008.0078: input,hidraw5: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Mostly Harmless vckb6] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3.2/input0
 input: Mostly Harmless vckb6 Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3.2/1-3.2:1.1/0003:BEEF:0008.0079/input/input233
 input: Mostly Harmless vckb6 System Control as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3.2/1-3.2:1.1/0003:BEEF:0008.0079/input/input234
 input: Mostly Harmless vckb6 Consumer Control as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3.2/1-3.2:1.1/0003:BEEF:0008.0079/input/input235
 input: Mostly Harmless vckb6 Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3.2/1-3.2:1.1/0003:BEEF:0008.0079/input/input236
 hid-generic 0003:BEEF:0008.0079: input,hidraw7: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Mostly Harmless vckb6] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3.2/input1

Credits

The repository and code is inspired by https://github.com/xkonni/qmk_xkonni_xk8/ and build upon the excellent qmk_firmware project.