/necro thread
I bought a TECK a month ago (227-wide alt with browns), and I'm getting a fair few key double presses, but mostly sometimes some keys don't register at all. It's weird because usually it's pretty bad first thing in the morning when I get into work (usually makes me have to retype my username/password at least once), but then it seems to improve over the course of the day.
What's really annoying is when you're typing, it doesn't register a key, then you backspace to remove whatever you typed after, then it does a double-press!! It's like a bloody practical joke. Really ruins my flow when trying to think. I breathe a little sigh of relief every day when I get home to my ergodox which works properly.
Every time it happens with a key, I bring up a notepad window and hit the offending key about 100 times (my coworker calls me "the woodpecker"), and this seems to fix that key for a while. Hardly good for avoiding RSI as TE claims though!!
Some keys seem to do it much more frequently than others, but it's never predictable. Very irritating.
I'm using the 3.40 firmware which supposedly fixes the double press/missed press issues, but hasn't worked for me.
I did see 4.00 firmware mentioned somewhere on their site but I use a custom layout so couldn't find a way to get my layout using 4.00 fw as the configurator generates v3.40.
It does seem a bit better than the first week though, it was almost unusable for the first week but I persevered because of TE's claims that switches need breaking in. I've had a few Cherry MX boards now though, and never have I experienced any issues like these.
It's hard for me to send the board back as I bought it "new" from ebay in Australia from a private seller, and from reading these threads, Truly Ergonomic support sounds pretty average anyway.
I'm still holding out hope that they really do fix the firmware, or my keys finally "break in". A month of fulltime work is a lot of breaking in though...
Pretty disappointing for a $200 keyboard really. Even the POS $15 hp rubber dome boards at my work manage to register all the presses without getting doubles. I just think that probably TE doesn't know how to code debouncing properly (not saying it's easy, just saying they can't do it).
Also it's 6KRO, not "Full N‑key rollover" as they claim on their site. This is a bit of an issue for me because I am learning Plover Stenography software.
I do like the layout, but with these issues, I just can't recommend this keyboard. What good is a keyboard that doesn't type properly??
Just leaving this here for anyone who is thinking about buying one of these. I would certainly think twice before I bought one. At times I've felt like throwing this one out the window!! Luckily for this one, the windows are locked shut at my work...