LEDs and inconsistant keys about ergodash HOT 19 CLOSED

・First question
Press BL_TOGG or RGB_TOG.

・Second question
I can only think of checking the soldering.

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Thanks for the reply! How do I press BL_TOGG or RGB_TOG?

EDIT: So i resoldered some of the misbehaving keys and they work great now. Now the only issue I have is with the LEDs. I set two different buttons on the keyboard, one as BL_TOGG and one as RGB_TOGG and neither of them do anything.

EDIT 2: now the entire HJKL: row isn't working on the right pad. It worked great last night and now I come into work and they don't do anything. Everything else works fine but I'm not sure why this would have changed just from bringing it into work, i was very gentle. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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@nutimnot could you post a couple pictures of the boards? It might help rule out soldering as the culprit.

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@brethash here are some pictures. I got home just now and added some more solder to the mis-behaving keys and reflashed that side of the keyboard to no avail, the entire HJKL:" row is dead.

for reference, in the picture the middle row is the HJKL:" row

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For an entire row that stopped working, it may be the pro-micro connection.

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@GreenShadowMaker how would i go about fixing that kind of issue?

EDIT: Follow up question, if it was working totally fine and then stopped, what would be the cause of that? I didn't do any soldering or anything and it stopped working, the row that is.

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I managed to fix the issues with the HJKL row. One of the points on the Pro micro wasn't soldered well, so I remelted it and now it's fully functional (typed this reply on the keyboard). If anyone knows why the LEDs aren't working let me know. I don't have any resistors set up, the kit only came with diodes.

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@nutimnot you won't need any additional resistors for the undermount LEDs to work. The resistors are only needed for the backlight/switch LEDs.

If you're using the default keymap for the keyboard, try flashing @GreenShadowMaker 's keymap. It seems like his has the undermount LEDs on by default (at least thats what it seemed like when I flashed it anyway). The layers in his keymap are also a bit easier to work with in my opinion.

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@brethash where can I find their keymap?

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The keymap is here and the layout itself is here. To toggle the adjust layer, the raise and lower keys are pressed at the same time (for me they were the keys directly below the B and the N.

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Awesome thank you! Now I'd just try flashing it with QMK and see if it works yeah?

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Yep! You should be able to build/flash it with make ergodash/rev1:greenshadowmaker:avrdude from the root of the QMK folder.

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@brethash how do you do that using the QMK toolbox?

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@nutimnot that's a good question! I've actually not used the QMK toolbox before; I always just build and flash from the command line, so I'm not sure how it works. 😞

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I flashed it but it didn't turn on the LEDs so i'm not sure. Maybe I will try something else or test to see if the LEDs work at all I guess. Thank you @brethash for all your help my guy

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You haven't done the RGB jumper connetion.
You have to read this.
https://github.com/omkbd/ErgoDash/blob/master/Doc/build-en.md#5-underglow-led-optional

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@omkbd So I just have to solder those two connections at the top of the board? I shouldn't need anything other than some solder, right? I don't have any resistors installed or anything. I'll try it out this week

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I got it to work, thank you @omkbd and @brethash for y'alls help <3

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