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What are some good keyboards brands? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 days ago by starlight@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Can anyone recommend a good keyboard brand? I'm looking for one that's comfortable and has color and character and not boring. I saw some keyboards from a brand called Yunzii but I've read some mixed reviews on them. I also want to make sure I get a keyboard that doesn't collect or share data, since everything collects data now. Doesn't have to wireless, wired works.

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[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Keychron is my current preference. Open source firmware (QMK/ZMK), excellent build quality, highly customizable, and their stock QMK/ZMK firmware works with their web-based Keychron Launcher in any Chromium-based browser or you can use any other app that supports the VIA protocol. Keychron also has their own per-key RGB extension to the VIA protocol and I've recently added support for it in OpenRGB, so my Keychron keyboards sync with all my other lights. The only problem is their firmware has a limitation on the lighting configuration where each key has to be the same brightness in per-key RGB mode. I've opened a PR on their GitHub to fix it and flashed custom builds to my Keychron Q2 (QMK) and Keychron Q6 Ultra 8K (ZMK).

[–] helix@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’ve recently added support for it in OpenRGB

What? OMG. Can you link this? I've been struggling with HE and RGB without their official shitty webapp for some while.

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Keychron support made it into OpenRGB 1.0rc3, so just grab the 1.0rc3 version from https://openrgb.org/. To patch your firmware to fix the color issue, see this PR: https://github.com/Keychron/qmk_firmware/pull/492.

[–] helix@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank yooooooou! I'm not sure if my K4 HE supports QMK but I'll have a look when I'm at home again!

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

I'm pretty sure all of the HE boards use QMK. If you can use per-key RGB in Keychron Launcher you can use it in OpenRGB.