Shift weirdness with pipe |

[mattharrison]

I've been running the tmk fw on my ergodox for a bit now. Am running into an issue where when I hit pipe (|), a backslash is usually entered as well (ie |). (I had to delete the backslash from the pipe back there :)).

This does not appear to happen with other shifted keys, nor did it happen with Ben's fw.

Any ideas?

[tmk]

No idea. I never had problem like that on my HHKB.

Test again with very simple keymap which doesn't have any Fn key.

You can enable debug of matrix(x) and keyboard report(k) with Magic command and see what happens in you keyboard with hid_listen. This may help.
https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard#magic-commands

[slashfoo]

I believe I'm running into the same issue, but may be different. When NKRO is enabled and I do:

Pless "/"
Press "\"
Release "/"
Press "/"
Release "/"
Release "/"

I get /\\\/\ when that should be /\/. Also, an interesting thing is that \ doesn't send repeats so if I hold down / for a while, I get /////////////////////////// but if I press / for a while, I only get one.

Granted I'm using a fork of a fork of this project, I think "multiple keystrokes on a BSLS" is enough to catch my eye.

@mattharrison have you tried to reproduce with/without NKRO being enabled?

I'm using shayneholmes/tmk_keyboard@tmk:master...simon_layout on my ergodox as well ; and find that disabling NKRO makes the keyboard behave as expected.

I'm going to try cub-uanic's and see if it was in shayneholmes' changes that the bug was introduced, I still wanted to throw my 2c in.

[tmk]

hmm, interesting.
EDIT: wait, I'm not sure I can understand what exactly you said... but it looks likebackslash is problematic.

What's your OS? Linux?
IIRC, Soarer said how to handle \ is tricky on Linux somewhere. His firmware uses tweaked report descriptor to avoid this issue. But I may have bad memory.

[slashfoo]

do you have a URL? yes, this is Linux... also I'll need a bit of clarification on what "tricky on linux" bit, I don't know what would be the problem really... I'll also try on a Win8 machine.

[tmk]

Unfortunately I cant find it anymore, maybe deleted its discussion due to Geekhack database malfucntion.

You may want to see report descriptor of Soarer's converter. I think his NKRO descriptor is not so straight unlike simple one of TMK.

[mattharrison]

My attempts on Linux (ubuntu 14.4) to follow @slashfoo's instructions. (Am assuming last Release "/" is Release "":
////\//////////////
//////\///////////////////////\

[slashfoo]

nope that press one, press the second, release the first guy and tap it again while leaving the "problem key" pressed.

The thing is, every time you press and release / while having \ down will yield \/\ instead of just a single / when NKRO is on. I'm unsure if this has to do with bounce/debouncing/chatter.

[mattharrison]

My results on Mac 10.9.3:

//////////////\\\//////////////

Am seeing same as @slashfoo : On Linux holding down "" does NOT repeat. This appears to be the only character where that is the case. (Also it repeats on Mac).

[mattharrison]

(More linux)
Results of holding down "" while tapping another key:
\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\

Also a long hold on "a" while holding down "" only enter one a. Again not the case with other keys:
//////////aaaaaaaaaaaaa (long hold a)

//////////aaaa (tap a 4 times)

[slashfoo]

so is it indeed a \ only issue and only on linux then? I'll try to take some time to debug on windows side of things too, but this is pretty disconcerting as the keyboard should perform the same on all OSs :S

[BenBergman]

I was having some issues with my custom keyboard build and the backslash key and had assumed it was my own error, but this is making me think I am not the only one. I am also using Linux, but with a regular keyboard '' repeats fine. On my TMK board, '' does not register at all. I have not had time to debug it yet, but it sounds like it might be at least somewhat related.

[slashfoo]

@tmk do you have a way to verify? I don't happen to have any of the keyboards on this original repo (as opposed to forks, like cubuanic and shayneholmes' that support the ergodox).

[tmk]

With enabling NKRO feature I confirmed these problems. I'm on Linux with my HHKB and firmware built with LUFA and NKRO.

1. \ is not auto-repeated.
2. weirdness while \ key is pressed down, like \a\\a\\a\\a\\

Again, looks like to me report descriptor is a problem. Someone can look into Soarer's converter and Linux?

WORKAROUND: disable NKRO feature

[BenBergman]

I just reflashed my TMK board and it seems I am experiencing the same issues as everyone else now. I'm not sure what my issue was before that blocked backslash entirely.