Thanks so much for this. I feel that the lighting effect possibilities with QMK are massively underexplored. A lot of the MK crowd shun RGB lighting, I think because they only see the "rainbow vomit" effects which I agree are gaudy. If they could imagine what's actually possible, I think they would see that there are a lot of tasteful and beautiful things you could do with it.
Wow! Thank you so much for stepping us through the process. So stoked that I got this working in just one evening, after watching your first demonstration of the board I planned on a week worth of evenings to figure this out. Then pops up your full explanation of how to do it!!! I'm going to drop you a donation somehow.... Thanks again !!
i actually fixed the knightrider animation bug. you need to define two lines in your config.h #define RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_OFFSET 1 #define RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_LED_NUM 14 this means that we skip the first LED in chain and start animation from the second LED in chain and set total LEDs, used in this animation to 14, meaning that we skip the las LED in chain. Doing this animation look solid. It occasionaly make last LED in chain blink a bit (some sort of passthrough electrisitey i suppose), but it does not affect the indicators functionality. I additionally set length of the animation to 4 LEDs instead of default 3, maybe it makes some difference. #define RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_LENGTH 4 So, stay frosty lads.
1. If you are building on Windows it's often easier to use Virtualbox (www.virtualbox.org/) and a linux build environment. 2. When you got the oddball LED this tells me you have a LED, Resistor or Diode that is at the far end of the tolerance or just outside of it. If it doesn't bother you to just unplug and replug the keyboard when this happens don't worry about it as tracking down which component it is is time consuming and brain taxing. The reason why that happens is that WS2812 LED use PWM(pulse width modulation) to achieve colors not discrete digital signals. So basically one of your components sometimes causes the PWM to be altered just enough that that one LED is a different color. 3. Fixing the animations to work with your status LED mod means editing a lot of code, I'm looking at it now but I don't have a board to play with yet. I'm hoping to get and build a Clueboard. I don't know if QMK and be adapted to run on my ps2AVRgb board or not. Each person that makes a ps2avrgb board does it a little different but I'll see what happens in a little bit when I try to flash it. 4. The state of QMK is a mess all the keyboards are doing thins in makefile and rules.mk different and it needs unified. I'll let you know of my progress.
Are you still working with RGB+QMK modifications? I have a Kb that use Sonix QMK but just the keys led work and the keyboard also have led at sides and I need to code
Hi, nice video! Have you figured out any solution to the knight rider bug? I have a Let's Split and I'm having the same issue as you. Just wanted to see if you got any solution :)
Does powershell not support arrow up to go through previous commands like in bash? Because, you wouldn't need to retype the commands over and over again after making changes. You would just need to arrow up when you wanted to compile the make command.
Hi Mate Wondering if its possible to set all leds to a certain color not only single one when I press scrollLock and numLock ? I couldnt figure it out how so far... Many thanks in advance for your help
Doing so would interfere with the animations, I since have moved on from this keyboard. Instead of doing only the end values, try doing it as all. Sorry if that's on the vague side.
Oh i figured out myself - it was actually so straight-forward and shown in pictures in github... So dumb of me! Thanx again for the video it is VERY educational actually. One more question: have you tried to invert backlight polarity on satan using qmk code? some switches like kailh have enough space for two diodes, so it will be interesting to use different colors of backlight for different layers...
Thanks so much for this. I feel that the lighting effect possibilities with QMK are massively underexplored. A lot of the MK crowd shun RGB lighting, I think because they only see the "rainbow vomit" effects which I agree are gaudy. If they could imagine what's actually possible, I think they would see that there are a lot of tasteful and beautiful things you could do with it.
Wow! Thank you so much for stepping us through the process. So stoked that I got this working in just one evening, after watching your first demonstration of the board I planned on a week worth of evenings to figure this out. Then pops up your full explanation of how to do it!!! I'm going to drop you a donation somehow.... Thanks again !!
i actually fixed the knightrider animation bug.
you need to define two lines in your config.h
#define RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_OFFSET 1
#define RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_LED_NUM 14
this means that we skip the first LED in chain and start animation from the second LED in chain and set total LEDs, used in this animation to 14, meaning that we skip the las LED in chain.
Doing this animation look solid. It occasionaly make last LED in chain blink a bit (some sort of passthrough electrisitey i suppose), but it does not affect the indicators functionality.
I additionally set length of the animation to 4 LEDs instead of default 3, maybe it makes some difference.
#define RGBLIGHT_EFFECT_KNIGHT_LENGTH 4
So, stay frosty lads.
Thanks, got this working with my XD64's built-in LEDs
thanks for the video. this works for my S60X_RGB. really helps a lot as the PCB doesnt support caps led.
1. If you are building on Windows it's often easier to use Virtualbox (www.virtualbox.org/) and a linux build environment.
2. When you got the oddball LED this tells me you have a LED, Resistor or Diode that is at the far end of the tolerance or just outside of it. If it doesn't bother you to just unplug and replug the keyboard when this happens don't worry about it as tracking down which component it is is time consuming and brain taxing. The reason why that happens is that WS2812 LED use PWM(pulse width modulation) to achieve colors not discrete digital signals. So basically one of your components sometimes causes the PWM to be altered just enough that that one LED is a different color.
3. Fixing the animations to work with your status LED mod means editing a lot of code, I'm looking at it now but I don't have a board to play with yet. I'm hoping to get and build a Clueboard. I don't know if QMK and be adapted to run on my ps2AVRgb board or not. Each person that makes a ps2avrgb board does it a little different but I'll see what happens in a little bit when I try to flash it.
4. The state of QMK is a mess all the keyboards are doing thins in makefile and rules.mk different and it needs unified.
I'll let you know of my progress.
do u know how to code rgb themes for custom keyboards?
Are you still working with RGB+QMK modifications? I have a Kb that use Sonix QMK but just the keys led work and the keyboard also have led at sides and I need to code
do you have or know a guide to setup a building enviroment ? i cant get it to work ...
Hi, nice video! Have you figured out any solution to the knight rider bug? I have a Let's Split and I'm having the same issue as you. Just wanted to see if you got any solution :)
Does powershell not support arrow up to go through previous commands like in bash?
Because, you wouldn't need to retype the commands over and over again after making changes. You would just need to arrow up when you wanted to compile the make command.
Hi Mate Wondering if its possible to set all leds to a certain color not only single one when I press scrollLock and numLock ? I couldnt figure it out how so far... Many thanks in advance for your help
Doing so would interfere with the animations, I since have moved on from this keyboard. Instead of doing only the end values, try doing it as all. Sorry if that's on the vague side.
sorted now thanks anyway :)
nice vid, bro! can you please give me a link to wiring instructions?
Oh i figured out myself - it was actually so straight-forward and shown in pictures in github... So dumb of me! Thanx again for the video it is VERY educational actually. One more question: have you tried to invert backlight polarity on satan using qmk code? some switches like kailh have enough space for two diodes, so it will be interesting to use different colors of backlight for different layers...
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