Considering a Kinesis Advantage Purchase...

[Input Nirvana]

i think input nirvana's avatar is a parrot (i don't remember i have avatars and sigs blocked).

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My little buddy. My eyes tear up just posting this, I miss him so much

[Lanx]

yea i'm going through something like that too dude, my dog of 10 years just recovered from cancer surgery but he's showing his age now, he can't even jump for cheese! (2 months after surgery), he can't even walk for more than 5 minutes (i used to take him out on 2 , 30min walks everyday), 2 days ago he just collapsed while out on a walk, i carried him home, vet said he's just tired and old.

[sordna]

So this was the magic step. I have mapped the pedal to a key before, but it would only get me into embedded mode, not out! Anyway I just tried to do it with a macro, but it doesn't work. I tried Progrm+Macro, AltGr++, Pedal, and Progrm+Macro (where AltGr++ is AltGr and plus, not the key following AltGr :-P ). Both pressing+releasing the pedal and pressing and holding the pedal result in the keypad LED flashing very briefly when triggering the macro.
I'd sure like to use part of a key as toggle switch, but I don't have a whole key to sacrifice :-/

I don't have spare keys either, so I decided I should add 4 keys in wire them to the footswitch leads. Hopefully Input Nirvana responds to my questions in his split-mod thread!

[boli]

I took a look at that thread and saw this: "You cannot move (remap) the keypad mode activation key"

Actually, it so happened that yesterday I discovered that you CAN map any key to keypad activation! It's in the manual. You need a footswitch (temporarily) to do the mapping. Basically, you enter remap mode, then you hit the footswitch (momentary keypad activation) then you hit the destination key you want to make a keypad toggle key! Unlike the footswitch, the new keypad key won't be momentary, it will be a toggle (works like the regular one however without the buzz sound) but still it's very welcome to be able to have it on any location! You need to repeat this mapping in the keypad layer as well, so you can toggle back to the regular layer with the same key.

Woah, good catch Sordna, cheers! I updated the original thread.

[slueth]

Someone made this on kickstarter.com I think it funded.  Pretty cool idea.

[Input Nirvana]

Mod-Somebody-Should-Do:

There are empty spaces in the matrix of the Kinesis. If they could be used......

Somewhere, in my original Kinesis journal that is now missing, I had the matrix layout