A Geek Goes Flying

For some reason the VIA app and https://usevia.app don’t work to remap the keys on a Keychron Q60 Max (usevia.app sees the keyboard but never moves past the Authorize device screen, even after a firmware update). usevia.app sees the board but is stuck However, Keychron’s own web software does:  https://launcher.keychron.com/#/keymap  Unfortunately, though there appears to be some JSON support buried in Settings, it doesn’t appear you can export or import a configuration. Here’s my refined-over-time mapping of Layers 0 and 2 (Layer 1 is the “Win” layer on this board, which has a Win/Mac hardware switch on the back). I remapped this board back in June but there were a few keys I hadn’t tweaked; I’ve fixed that and am posting this for my own recollection if nothing else: Layer 0 keymap Layer 2 keymap Also, the keyboard seems somewhat finicky as to the USB-C cable that will work with it. A 10' (whoops?) Anker cable that works fine to power the laptop didn’t register the keyboa...

 So this took a little bit of figuring out. But I got there. Using VIA software to remap the D60Lite I first tried to flash the .hex file I built for my Tokyo60 boards , since both machines use the Mega32U4 I thought maybe ... But no:  Only firmware files in .bin format can be flashed with this bootloader! I eventually figured out how to do this (and it doesn’t involve QMK Configurator). The PCB for this kit identifies itself as a DZ60RGB WKL V2, which shows up on the list of VIA supported keyboards . A little bit of sleuthing led me to the KBDFans page for the DZ60RGB-ANSI v2 , which has a “ New Flash Manual ” that got me most of the way there. (Instead of using the dztech_dz60rgb_ansi_v2_via.bin firmware they provide, I used the dztech_dz60rgb_wkl_v2_1_via.bin file from https://www.caniusevia.com/docs/download_firmware .) Edit: A mod over at r/KBDFans suggested: “i would not recommend using the Via files from their website. Some of the files due to updates do not match up w...