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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: etomzak on Sat, 30 April 2016, 07:49:37

Title: Fun with the Infinity ErgoDox display
Post by: etomzak on Sat, 30 April 2016, 07:49:37

I've been thinking about things the Infinity ErgoDox's display could be used for. I've cobbled together a script (https://github.com/etomzak/ErgoDox-Notify/blob/master/notify-push.pl), sort of a background daemon, to display the number of Linux desktop notifications. Something similar could be used to display the currently playing song, the subject line of the last received email, etc.

I'm curious what regular ErgoDox users would use the displays for.

At the moment, the script occasionally drops data when writing to the display. I'm trying to come up with something that could be done about that.

Title: Re: Fun with the Infinity ErgoDox display
Post by: vvp on Sat, 30 April 2016, 13:39:50

On my keyboard (not an Ergodox) I use it for:

• layer name
• lock status (Num/Caps/Ccrol lock)
• flag whether marcos/programs are enabled
• current light  level from light sensor (besides that the light sensor controls brightness of the LEDs)
• short help when defining on-the-fly remaps or macros