J2

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J2

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Has Anyone Gotten a V6 Max (or *ANY* Wireless Board) to Work with Something Like Signal RGB or OpenRGB?

It's only a different front end to QMK, and QMK has no native support for more than a basic set of canned modes. I haven't played around with them much, I'm not a real backlight fan, but I thought they had more than a couple of modes that supported custom hues. I have modified my Keychron J2 to supp

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ArgentStonecutter in r/Keychron

May 15, 2026 10:24 PM

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Brand new K2 HE not working

I missed your requirements about needing to fit into Keychron's QMK boards. That's the "terrible software..." bit. :( Yeh, I'm familiar with Sunder, not only is it super expensive, but it's also out of stock as is normal for limited run custom kit. There was someone in OLKB who was working on open s

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ArgentStonecutter in r/Keychron

May 18, 2026 10:18 PM

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Mod Tap Functionality

You need to use tap-dance, but that requires building new firmware with the tap-dance codes built in, and then entering the hex for the code using ANY. Theoretically you could convert it from VIA (Launcher) to VIAL but that's a bit fraught because the Keychron code base has changed a lot. It should

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ArgentStonecutter in r/Keychron

April 28, 2026 9:33 AM

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Brand new K2 HE not working

The J2/J8 HE aren't even ZMK, they're completely proprietary. :( This seems to be the case with the HE 8K boards, too. It's a massive bummer. It's also baffling, because Keychron is stacking up a bunch of tech debt by not just sticking to one system. ZMK is cool, because it lets you store layouts on

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julian_vdm in r/Keychron

May 18, 2026 10:26 PM

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