LEDs and inconsistant keys
nutimnot opened this issue · 19 comments
Hello,
I built this board yesterday and have been having some issues. First I cannot figure out how to turn the LEDs on. I flashed my custom .hex file to the keyboard but other than that i cannot get the lights to turn on. I update the file like the instructions say but i'm not sure how they're supposed to populate to the board itself.
Secondly i've been having some issues getting keys to work sometimes. For example when i built the board, I couldn't get my 7 key to work, i thought I had soldered it incorrectly but everything else works. Now the 7 works fine and the enter key doesn't work without changing anything. Also sometimes the keys need to be pressed a few times before they'll register with the computer. Any assistance would be greatly appriciated, thank you!
・First question
Press BL_TOGG or RGB_TOG.
・Second question
I can only think of checking the soldering.
Thanks for the reply! How do I press BL_TOGG or RGB_TOG?
EDIT: So i resoldered some of the misbehaving keys and they work great now. Now the only issue I have is with the LEDs. I set two different buttons on the keyboard, one as BL_TOGG and one as RGB_TOGG and neither of them do anything.
EDIT 2: now the entire HJKL: row isn't working on the right pad. It worked great last night and now I come into work and they don't do anything. Everything else works fine but I'm not sure why this would have changed just from bringing it into work, i was very gentle. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
@nutimnot could you post a couple pictures of the boards? It might help rule out soldering as the culprit.
@brethash here are some pictures. I got home just now and added some more solder to the mis-behaving keys and reflashed that side of the keyboard to no avail, the entire HJKL:" row is dead.
for reference, in the picture the middle row is the HJKL:" row
For an entire row that stopped working, it may be the pro-micro connection.
@GreenShadowMaker how would i go about fixing that kind of issue?
EDIT: Follow up question, if it was working totally fine and then stopped, what would be the cause of that? I didn't do any soldering or anything and it stopped working, the row that is.
I managed to fix the issues with the HJKL row. One of the points on the Pro micro wasn't soldered well, so I remelted it and now it's fully functional (typed this reply on the keyboard). If anyone knows why the LEDs aren't working let me know. I don't have any resistors set up, the kit only came with diodes.
@nutimnot you won't need any additional resistors for the undermount LEDs to work. The resistors are only needed for the backlight/switch LEDs.
If you're using the default keymap for the keyboard, try flashing @GreenShadowMaker 's keymap. It seems like his has the undermount LEDs on by default (at least thats what it seemed like when I flashed it anyway). The layers in his keymap are also a bit easier to work with in my opinion.
Awesome thank you! Now I'd just try flashing it with QMK and see if it works yeah?
Yep! You should be able to build/flash it with make ergodash/rev1:greenshadowmaker:avrdude from the root of the QMK folder.
@nutimnot that's a good question! I've actually not used the QMK toolbox before; I always just build and flash from the command line, so I'm not sure how it works.
I flashed it but it didn't turn on the LEDs so i'm not sure. Maybe I will try something else or test to see if the LEDs work at all I guess. Thank you @brethash for all your help my guy
You haven't done the RGB jumper connetion.
You have to read this.
https://github.com/omkbd/ErgoDash/blob/master/Doc/build-en.md#5-underglow-led-optional