So I got my VERY FIRST mechanical keyboard in the mail today: a Ducky Pro 2 with the blue and gray PBT keycaps (and Cherry Browns). It is an absolute delight to type on and I couldn't be happier! Except the multimedia keys in the top right-hand corner don't seem to do anything at all. They're supposed to open the calculator and do various other things, and I'd planned to remap them via AHK to suit my own purposes.
So I've got two questions:
One, any guesses as to why my multimedia keys seem to be completely nonresponsive? I looked up what the dip switches on the underside do, just in case I had to flip one to activate them, but that doesn't seem to be it. I have a Logitech mouse installed (and the accompanying SetPoint software) - might this be interfering? My old keyboard was just a plain eight-year-old Microsoft membrane board and didn't have any specialized software.
Two: I came across the following
AHK script for putting a computer to sleep via a keypress (what I want to do with the top-right multimedia key on the new Ducky):
; Win+F12
#F12::
; Sleep/Suspend:
DllCall("PowrProf\SetSuspendState", "int", 0, "int", 0, "int", 0)
; Hibernate:
;DllCall("PowrProf\SetSuspendState", "int", 1, "int", 0, "int", 0)
Return
Of course, this guy did it with Win+F12 and I'd rather use just the one key, which according to
this post may be SC132. But I can't make the script work properly! If I do the following and run it via AHK, it doesn't throw any errors, but hitting the far right key (or any of the function keys) still does nothing:
; Sleep Via Multimedia Key
SC132::
; Sleep/Suspend:
DllCall("PowrProf\SetSuspendState", "int", 0, "int", 0, "int", 0)
; Hibernate:
;DllCall("PowrProf\SetSuspendState", "int", 1, "int", 0, "int", 0)
ReturnThis makes me wonder if the keys are all disabled somehow, so kind of back to Question One.
Any advice would be much, much appreciated!
Edit: Uninstalled Setpoint and rebooted the computer. No effect. Unplugged keyboard and replugged into a different USB slot. Also no effect.Edit 2: The Function/Media keys along the top edge are also not working with my media players (tested VLC and foobar2000), and Fn+F1, which should mute the system, does nothing. Fn+F9 does turn the backlight on and off, though, leading me to suspect it's more of a driver/software conflict issue than a hardware one. I hope.Edit 3: Tried setting the multimedia keys in foobar2000 as universal hotkeys and, while it recognizes the F keys individually, it does *not* recognize the keypress of Fn+Fkey. It fails to register any keypress at all. But I know the Fn key isn't busted because Fn+F9 still turns the WASD backlight on and off just fine. WTF?I FIXED IT. For some reason, the process Human Interface Device Access (hidserv) wasn't running; I went into Processes, launched it, and set it to automatic start. BOOM. All my media keys work now!!Still gotta tweak AHK, but I bet I can get it working now.
