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Title: Micro Innovations Keyboard...help!
Post by: mtxblau on October 15, 2005, 02:54:21 am: Hello all,

I just recently purchased the Micro Innovations tkb750u keyboard, and I'm having a bit of an issue with it.

I'm running the tkcROM 2.0 Alpha (from this site) and installed the irk driver .11, .05 and .10 in that order (trying to see if this was across all drivers) - when I pick the pocketop irk, every time I press a key it'll either enter a key that isn't mapped correctly repeatedly OR it'll stop the previous action. For instance I'll hit 'k' and it'll repeat 'k', if I hit L it'll repeat a dash (-), and if I hit shift it'll stop the insanity.

When I switch to the targus control it'll enter 41 for every key I press. Though it won't repeat.

Anyone heard of this? Is this a matter of keyboard mapping? Or is this something else entirely? As far as I can tell the keyboard was brand new, no issues, factory condition, but I can't tell what the heck is making it go crazy.

Any and all help would be appreciated!
Title: Micro Innovations Keyboard...help!
Post by: mtxblau on October 17, 2005, 03:07:16 pm: Since it is accepting some sort of input, I'm thinking it isn't the battery... though I'm not sure... it's laying right on the IR port of the keyboard, haven't had a chance yet to fabricate a mirror.

I found the irk.conf, but that's not of much help. Does anyone know where the actual mapping file might be located?

pocketop's website indicates they have a driver for $13... which is quite odd, for charging for a driver on top of the hardware cost (offset eBay? who knows). But I have little faith when the spelling on the ticket is downright awful...

Under Opie/OZ, is IRK better? I keep seeing a belkin driver, but it's in reference to OZ; any ideas if there's such a driver for the sharp rom?

I also tried the python driver, though that didn't work out so well since the referenced python files are no longer available - I did follow the link and downloaded python-core, but no response, no output, nada.

It's never easy on the Z, is it?
Title: Micro Innovations Keyboard...help!
Post by: mtxblau on October 21, 2005, 04:41:51 am: Well, wow. This is tragic. No one has experience with this keyboard?

How's IRK support under OZ? No time like the present to take it for a spin, I suppose... I do like that on the fly rotation... That'd be nice with wireless + Opera...
Title: Micro Innovations Keyboard...help!
Post by: inode0 on October 21, 2005, 09:49:56 am: Quote
Well, wow. This is tragic. No one has experience with this keyboard?

How's IRK support under OZ? No time like the present to take it for a spin, I suppose... I do like that on the fly rotation... That'd be nice with wireless + Opera...
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I use the Micro Innovations model pictured [a href=\"http://www.mobiletechreview.com/tips/pocketop.htm]here[/url] but I think it is a different model than the one you are asking about? Do you have a picture of yours somewhere?

John
Title: Micro Innovations Keyboard...help!
Post by: kopsis on October 21, 2005, 11:54:58 am: There are two parts to an IR keyboard driver, protocol and keymaps, and keyboard vendors seem to love changing them both. For example there are two models of Belkin keyboards (the F8U1500 and F8U1500T) that look almost identical but have completely different protocols.

It sounds like your tkb750u is speaking a different protocol than the old Pocketop for which IRK is coded. If the problem was just key maps, you'd get wrong inputs but they'd be consistent with your keypresses (no runaway keys). Changing the protocol is a lot harder than tweaking keymaps -- it means modifying the IRK source code and rebuilding.
Title: Micro Innovations Keyboard...help!
Post by: mtxblau on October 22, 2005, 07:38:14 am: This is the one I purchased.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Micro-Innovations-IR-W...1QQcmdZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.com/Micro-Innovations-IR-Wireless-PDA-Keyboard-PALM-Visor_W0QQitemZ5821479962QQcategoryZ29851QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

Modifying the source... hrm... interesting. I wonder if the effort is truly worth it...
Title: Micro Innovations Keyboard...help!
Post by: cwaig on October 22, 2005, 07:18:07 pm: Quote
pocketop's website indicates they have a driver for $13... which is quite odd, for charging for a driver on top of the hardware cost (offset eBay? who knows). But I have little faith when the spelling on the ticket is downright awful...

Don't pay Pocketop for the driver - it's just an older vversion of IRK (I've told 'em to stop charging for it in the past).
Title: Micro Innovations Keyboard...help!
Post by: mtxblau on October 23, 2005, 12:34:39 am: Cwaig, from previous topics I understand that you made the pocketop driver - if I were to rebuild from source, what would that entail?