Standard Caps Lock behaviour

Model 01 Layouts
1

Hi there,

is there a way to light up a key while CapsLock is on? Nothing fancy like making all letters red, I just need a simple vidual indication that Caps Lock is active.

Thanks!
Alberto

2

what iā€™ve been thinking about doing personally is making fn+shift do caps lock and then using the breathe function on that key

3

I wrote a plugin for this, but it does, in fact, turn all the letter keys red (and lights up the shift key with the same ā€œbreatheā€ effect as the NumPad plugin does on the Num Lock key).

If you wanted to fork it and remove the red effect, the lines to edit would be lines 35-41 in Kaleidoscope-CapsLock.cpp:

        if ((k.raw >= Key_A.raw) && (k.raw <= Key_Z.raw)) {
          LEDControl.setCrgbAt(r, c, active_mode_color);
        } else if (k == Key_LeftShift || k == Key_RightShift) {
          LEDControl.setCrgbAt(r, c, breathColor);
        } else {
          LEDControl.refreshAt(r, c);
        }

Specifically it should do what you want if you change it to something like this:

        if (k == Key_LeftShift || k == Key_RightShift) {
          LEDControl.setCrgbAt(r, c, breathColor);
        } else {
          LEDControl.refreshAt(r, c);
        }
4

Also if you have comments about the plugin thereā€™s already a thread for it: https://community.keyboard.io/t/kaleidoscope-capslock-turns-letter-keys-red-when-caps-lock-is-on/993/14

5

thanks, i was actually just looking at that very thread for ideas on the best way to implement this

6

Both solution are fine, TBH, whatever is easier to implement.

@fedward, how do I install your plugin?
@homosaur, how do I use the breathe function?

Sorry if Iā€™m asking trivial questions, but documentation is scarce and Iā€™m not familiar with embedded C programming.

7

Iā€™ve never tried to install it as a download (since I built it on my local machine), so this should be fun. Looks like you should download the zip file of the release: Kaleidoscope-CapsLock-v0.0.1.zip and then go to Sketch->Add Fileā€¦ and select the zip file you downloaded.

Then there are a few lines you have to add to your sketch, documented in the README.

8

Hi fedward, I am a complete newb when it comes to flashing, programming,etc.
I installed the plugin and modified the sketch as instructed. The change passes validation, but when I flash, it takes a long time (over 5 min), and throws an error. Here is a copy of the verbose:
avrdude: Version 6.3, compiled on Jan 17 2017 at 12:00:53
System wide configuration file is ā€œC:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.confā€
Using Port : usb
Using Programmer : stk500v2
avrdude: usbdev_open(): did not find any USB device ā€œusbā€ (0x03eb:0x2104)
avrdude done. Thank you.
An error occurred while uploading the sketch

For info, my machine runs Win10 x64bits, and the keyboard is connected to a USB port identified as COM3.
Hope you can help me, since Caps lock is basic for my businessā€¦
Dracodl

9

Hey sorry, Iā€™ve been traveling a lot and I never saw a notification on this reply. Did you get your firmware updated?

10

Hi fedward, the problem with flashing was fixed after I updated the firmware. Thank you for checking up with me!

Debora L.