I got the uconsole today and I have some question

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I’ve been waiting for 8 months and got uconsole today.
And my 16-year-old son put it together, and the green light came on, but it didn’t work.
As a result, I disassembled it 4 times and reassembled it, and after removing the module through Google search, it worked normally.
And when I turned it off and attached the module again, the communication was good and the operation was normal.

  1. It would be nice to have a hint about the lcd connection part while assembling.
  2. It was a little difficult when connecting the adapter.
  3. I think it would be good to change the mouse ball to something with better performance.
  4. In particular, it would be good to replace the mouse ball with a button function.
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    It was nice to have many basic programs in it.
    I think it will help you a lot to adapt.
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Question

  1. Can I use any charger? Or should I use my own charger? I have a genuine charger for Samsung’s phone Galaxy, can I use it?
  2. I’ve tried 3 phones and fast chargers at home right now, but I can’t see any orange lights. They say you can see orange lights while charging
    Can I not see it?
  3. I’m going to change my sd card to a high capacity in a few days, is 512gb of capacity available from that?
  4. Is it possible to migrate sd cards in a Windows environment?
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#1 I’ve used several chargers including good USB C PD chargers, it is only a 5 volt device and should work with just about anything.

#2 my orange LED never comes on, but one of my PD chargers has a display so I can see that it was working.

#3 I use a 256GB card now, I am only guessing that a 512 would work. One point to note is that the CM5 is very picky about the cards. There is a firmware update that can fix this, but you might need a smaller card to install an OS to do the firmware upgrade first, then swap in the larger card.

#4 not sure

There are ways to get the ABXY or arrow keys to move the mouse, details are in a few threads. I have not done this yet, but it’s on my list of things to do. Specifically I want ABXY to move the mouse and arrow keys to continue doing what they do.

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you can replace it with better trackball.

if you will update keyboard firmware / install qmk keyboard firmware – you will have option to use fn + trackball / select + trackball as a scroll

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that indicator is pretty finicky. it doesn’t work when uconsole is powered off (probably because it works programmatically), and seems like OS updates can break it also: Bookworm 6.12.y for the uConsole and DevTerm - #474 by Rex

I suppose it works this way because ‘charging board’ is a separate module, but it should charge batteries even if indicator doesn’t show it.

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seems like QMK has some support of Orbital Mouse

in QMK thread people explained how to customize QMK firmware for uconsole

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Thank you for answer and good info. I will try it

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so good
Works more delicately than the original. Thanks for the good information

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I changed it from 32 gigabytes to 128 gigabytes using the migration program. 512 gigabytes seems to work, but I don’t think I’ll need a lot of memory for a while, so I’m going to be happy with it and use it first. The memory was partitioned during the migration to 128 gigabytes, and fortunately, it was automatically recognized as a separate directory.