Macropad

Instructions for Assembling the makerspace macropad

if you've already made, and flashed the firmware, there are only a few steps to reprogram:

1. press down key 1 (the left key) and the encoder knob at the same time, until key 1 stops sending keypresses
2. after ~5seconds, pressing key 1 should cause an address to be typed in; specifically 192.168.1.1
3. Now, go to your wifi settings, and connect to the new network that's appeared (likely named macropad or macropad-config, unless you manually renamed it)
4. open any web browser (while connected to this network) and type in the address 192.168.1.1 (or just press key 1)
5. this should take you to the programming page! now, enter in what you want each key to do, and press submit!

A few notes on configuring the keys:

• With the default firmware, the 3 main keys are set up to do basic keyboard functions and the volume knob does media controls. You can't mix and match functionality between these two groups without manually editing the firmware
• to input modifiers (ie. shift, control, alt), you have to use a strange format
  • Shift = KEY_LEFT_SHIFT, Alt = KEY_LEFT_ALT, Control = KEY_LEFT_CTRL
  • put whatever modifiers you want at the start of your macro, and seperate them with "+++" from the rest of your input
    • for example to send "ctrl+shift+t" I would input: KEY_LEFT_CTRL+++KEY_LEFT_SHIFT+++t
    • modifiers must be at the start of the sequence: KEY_LEFT_CTRL+++t+++KEY_LEFT_SHIFT will not work