uConsole keyboard firmware upgrade

[mhalano]

I saw on GitHub there is a new firmware version for the keyboard. I have a question about how to put the keyboard on the serial mode (where it appears like a serial device) so I can use the maple_upload tool to write the firmware.

[adcockm]

I imagine it will be like the Devterm, since it seems to be similar hardware and the same main board. On Devterm you could flash a new keyboard firmware from the Devterm itself, without disassembling anything.

Just for reference, here are a couple of related threads:

DevTerm Keyboard firmware mod: hot mode switching / gear switching

I’ve made a mod for the keyboard firmware to allow hot mode switching and gear switching. Important: if your keyboard suffers from Keyboard stuck in Bootloader mode, please hold on a while – I need to cherry pick this fix into my firmware. Usage FN+DPAD L/R: Switch selector. Currently there are three selectors: Joystick, Gear and Powersave. To switch gears, use FN+L/R to first select Gear mode. Then use FN+U/D to switch gears. It assumes that the system boots up in gear 3. Starting from v…

I've rewritten DevTerm keyboard & trackball firmware

I rewrote DevTerm keyboard & trackball firmware from scratch to fix trackball movements. I think that a good trackball controller satisfies these conditions: It should be responsive to your rolling speed. The faster you roll, the faster it moves. But it should be precise if you want, without ‘Fn’ key mode. Also it shouldn’t be janky when you move diagonally in any angle. While doing so, it shouldn’t be slippery. It stops to move immediately when you stop to roll. I’ve also rewrote the keyb…

[mhalano]

Since the units already came for some people, do you folks have any news about this? Anyone who tried to upgrade the firmware of the keyboard?

[adcockm]

A keyboard update was posted here, and it can be done without disassembly, just like the DevTerm.

uConsole os Images

Here are the download links for uConsole OS images: You can find the image files on this GitHub page: uConsole OS Images. After downloading the files, you need to uncompress them. Please note that MacOS requires version 11.6 or higher to uncompress 7z files. For flashing the uConsole OS image, you can use the following tools: Windows and macOS users can use Etcher to flash the image. Linux users can use the “dd” command to flash the image. If you want to use the 4G extension, you can find …

[markatlnk]

How do you know what revision the keyboard software is?

[guu]

right after flashing

run

sudo dmesg | tail

you will see something like

[  607.238305] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  607.238310] usb 1-1.1: Product: DevTerm
[  607.238316] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: ClockworkPI
[  607.238321] usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 20230714
[  607.241541] input: ClockworkPI DevTerm Consumer Control as /devices/platform/soc/fe980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/0003:1EAF:0024.0005/input/input29
[  607.301071] input: ClockworkPI DevTerm Keyboard as /devices/platform/soc/fe980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/0003:1EAF:0024.0005/input/input30
[  607.301515] input: ClockworkPI DevTerm as /devices/platform/soc/fe980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/0003:1EAF:0024.0005/input/input31
[  607.301722] input: ClockworkPI DevTerm Mouse as /devices/platform/soc/fe980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/0003:1EAF:0024.0005/input/input32
[  607.301952] hid-generic 0003:1EAF:0024.0005: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [ClockworkPI DevTerm] on usb-fe980000.usb-1.1/input0
[  607.302236] cdc_acm 1-1.1:1.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device