Hi, I carefully followed the tutorial using the arduino ide, and i succeeded in removing some of the extra LED effects that I don’t want, by uploading modified firmware that strips them out (I also removed all keymaps except qwerty, as that’s the only one i’m interested in currently). However, when…

Hello @miwallr , Like @alfalfasprossen stated, this is due to the keyboard layout being stored in EEPROM. Originally the layout used to be part of the firmware and that is why there is still a keyboard layout in the default Arduino sketch, however it has since been moved to EEPROM which allows you …

Great - that explains it, including the fix if wanted, in the link by @alfalfasprossen above.

Firmware upload not updating keymaps (but can update led effects)

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alfalfasprossen (Johannes Becker) February 18, 2020, 3:35pm 2

It has probably to do with crysalis storing the layout in eeprom which needs to be wiped using chrysalis for a custom layout to work or so. Related topic is here Stuck with old custom layout

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