not-jan/apex-tux

New keyboards, new product id ?

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jehendeoff commented

I went to take a look on steelseries' website and I saw that they released the apex 9 mini and apex 9 tkl.

I do not own them, therefore, if anyone has them, I'd like to ask what those keyboard's products ID are.

in case you do not know how to get a product ID, just open a terminal and run: lsusb | grep "SteelSeries Apex", this should return every SteelSeries Apex identified usb products.

For example, my apex 5 lists as :

Bus 005 Device 003: ID 1038:161c SteelSeries ApS SteelSeries Apex 5

(here 1038 is steelseries' hardware ID, we don't care about it, except if it is not 1038, what we care about is 161c, which is the apex 5 product ID)

SalahAdDin commented

@jehendeoff I wrote your instructions in this PR, so people can make their devices to work.

jehendeoff commented

sorry i'm not on my computer, no even after making new udev rules, it won't work, the code needs to be updated

jehendeoff commented

here is where the IDs are "hard-coded" (I don't think there's any other way) in the code, so even with the proper udev rules in place, the software can't recognize keyboard with an ID that it doesn't know.

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SalahAdDin commented

here is where the IDs are "hard-coded" (I don't think there's any other way) in the code, so even with the proper udev rules in place, the software can't recognize keyboard with an ID that it doesn't know.

I saw it before, is there any documentation we can find all the available ids?

jehendeoff commented

I have looked for it but I don't think steelseries provide them, maybe we could ask rivalcfg (implement most of steelseries' mouse functionality in linux) if they have a way or a contact at steelseries (if so, maybe we can simply ask them)

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