How to turn leds off

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I sometimes accidentally hit the led key. What’s the quickest way to turn them off? I end up hitting the led key a number of times and watching them change color, but have to experiment with hitting the led key multiple times to get them turned off.

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You can create a macro that does LEDOff.activate(), and place it on your keymap somewhere. Or remove LED effects you don’t need or want, so you have to hit the LED key fewer times.

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Hmmm. “Create a macro”. I don’t know how to do that. I’m guessing this means learning about Kaleidoscope? And how to download new firmware?

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Yes, this means learning about Kaleidoscope.

The first step would be installing Arduino, and getting the firmware sources. The wiki has guides for the three major operating systems:

The factory firmware is at:

If you install from git (recommended at the moment), then installing Kaleidoscope will also get you the factory firmware, as it is part of the “bundle”.

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Macros are the best solution. I’ve got it so that tapping the LED button turns the LEDs on or off, depending on the current state. I’ve also got function+LED to switch through the modes, and shift+function+LED to switch through the modes backwards.

My layout is based on an earlier firmware build, before the giant refactor, but you should be able to see what I did and replicate it yourself.

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Thanks Ben,

The length of the file is a little intimidating, (I have yet to do a first firmware download) but I appreciate your suggestion and letting me piggyback on your work.

Leonard

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Give me a day or two and I can point out the relevant sections. They are the macro definitions and the placement of the macros on keys on my layout.