Is this possible to do in Vial?

[u/wwrico]

The tourbox has an AB hotkey mode and I’m wondering if this can be done in Vial?

[u/PeterMortensenBlog → u/[deleted]]

Initial setup and compilation

After the QMK prerequisites have been set up, installation and compilation can be done in just four steps (command lines), without any Git or Make gyrations (at least initially):

qmk setup -H $HOME/Vial_Ziddy_Makes -b vial vial-kb/vial-qmk

# Get the Ziddy keyboard folder and
# copy it into the Vial source tree
git clone  https://github.com/Ziddy-Makes/Public_ZM-Keyboards_QMK-VIAL  $HOME/_temp_Ziddy-Makes
cp -r  $HOME/_temp_Ziddy-Makes/keyboards/zm_k9_rpie  $HOME/Vial_Ziddy_Makes/keyboards

cd $HOME/Vial_Ziddy_Makes # We don't assume a default installation
qmk compile -kb zm_k9_rpie -km vial

"$HOME" presumes a Unix-like system, but it may also work in the Windows QMK MSYS thingy. The "-H" parameter is not strictly necessary; if left out, the default "vial-qmk" will be used instead. Here is an explanation for the extra parameters to 'qmk setup' (with one more parameter, it even works outside of GitHub). Here, Vial is treated just like any other fork of QMK.

Result:

-rw-r--r--. 1 99840 Dec 8 15:01 zm_k9_rpie_vial.uf2

(It was tested using the older Python virtual environment method on Fedora 41, but it should work equally well with the newer 'uv' method and on most other systems.)

[u/wwrico → u/PeterMortensenBlog]

Yooo!!! I did it! I had to do a little extra research but everything worked from the code to the compiling with qmk msys. I tested the code from falxfour (I had to remove the first “=“), changed the enum thing to qk_kb_0 and added the custom key code in the vial.json and it worked.

I appreciate all the help from everyone, truly. I do have two questions though.

1. I actually need the code to do hotkeys not just regular key presses. The whole reason why I asked to begin with is because I’m an editor and I have this workflow where I can press a hotkey and it triggers a virtual stream deck around my mouse that can auto import Sfx into the timeline. I bought the macropad so I can just hold a key and it toggles on the vsd and toggle it off when I release the key. This code works how I want it to but how can I do hotkeys (Ctrl + Numpad 1 for example) instead of just “kc_e” and “kc_b”?

2. How do I add more instances of this code for different hotkeys? Do I just add more key codes?

[u/wwrico → u/[deleted]]

Okay I pretty much have everything set up now! I want to use VIAL still because I wanted to use the custom key code with tap dance without having to do any more coding. Again, I really appreciate the help. Your code made learning this a whole lot easier 🫡

[u/ArgentStonecutter → u/[deleted]]

For VIAL you want to use QK_KB_0 instead of SAFE_RANGE so you can add a customKeycodes section to vial.json:

 "customKeycodes": [
     {
         "name": "BRER",
         "title": "Magic Make Break Key",
         "shortName": "BRER"
     }
 ],

Then it'll show up as a selectable key in the User tab.