- Kinesis Freestyle 2 Keyboard Manual
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TheKinesis Advantage2 KeyboardSmartSet feature lets you create any layout in real-time just by pressing keys, and also lets you edit and share layouts, and they are plain text files.
This page show you:
- How to switch layout.
- How to remap keys.
- How to record key macro, erase key macro.
- Show current layout and other info.
- How to reset keyboard.
- How to create a layout.
- How to switch to user layout.
- Open the embeded flash drive.
- Edit layout config file.
Switch Layout
To switch to QWERTY layout, press progm+F3
To switch to Dvorak layout, press progm+F4
All models of Kinesis Advantage2 have both Qwerty and Dvorak layout builtin.
Switch to Mac Thumb Key Mode
- Switch to Mac mode: Press progm+F5
- Switch to PC mode: Press progm+F6
- Switch to Microsoft Windows mode: Press progm+F7
Enable/Disable Key Sounds
There's a embedded speaker. When you press a key, it makes a pleasant “tick” sound for feedback. By default, it's on.
progm+F8 → Toggle key sounds. (When turning on, the scroll-lock light will flash 4 times. When turning off, it'll flash 2 times.)
Capslock On/Off Beep
When CapsLock is turn on, there's 2 beeps sound. When it's off, 1 beep. Similarly for Keypad, Num Lock, Scroll Lock.
You can turn off this beep feature. By default, it's on.
Press progm+Shift+F8 → Toggle special key on/off beep. (When turning on, the scroll-lock light will flash 4 times. When turning off, it'll flash 2 times.)
Remap Key
Suppose you want to make CapsLock do Ctrl.
- Hold progm then press F12. Release both.
- Press Ctrl, release, press CapsLock, release.
- Press progm again to stop.
Done. Now, pressing CapsLock will send Ctrl signal.
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Do this to remap any key.
When you remap a key, key are based on their default meanings.So, you won't get into a confusing situation of recursive remaps.To make a key back to default, you can simply start remap and press that key twice.
Record Key Macro
Suppose you want to make F2 do Ctrl+c (copy).
- Hold progm then press F11. Release both. (numlock LED will flash fast continuously.)
- Press F2, release. (numlock LED will now flash slowly.)
- Press Ctrl+c.
- Press progm again to stop.
Done. Now, pressing F2 will do Copy.
The triggering key can be a key chord. For example, you can makeCtrl+kdo↓, so that when holding control, right hand keys can become arrow keys.
Erase One Key Macro
- Hold progm then press F11. Release both. (numlock LED will flash fast continuously.)
- Press the key or key combination that you want to erase. (numlock LED will now flash slowly.)
- Press progm again to stop.
Set Global Key Macro Playback Speed
- Press progm+Pause+1 (slowest)
- Press progm+Pause+2
- …
- Press progm+Pause+9 (fastest)
Show Current Keyboard Status
• progm+status → paste text of current keyboard status. You must be in a text editor. For example, Microsoft Notepad, Mac TextEdit, or any emacs, vim, etc.
Sample output
Disable/Enable Macro Playback
- progm+F10 → toggle disable macro. (capslock LED will flash 4 times if disabling, 2 times if enabling.)
Reset Keyboard
- progm+Ctrl+F9 → Hard Reset. It restore all defaults, and put current layout to QWERTY. Keep holding until LED stops flashing. Keyboard needs to be plugged in.
- progm+Shift+F9 → Soft Reset. Remove user's keymapping and macro definition of current active layout.
Power User Mode
- progm+Shift+Escape → toggle Power User Mode. All 4 LEDs flash 4 times on activation, 2 times on deactivation.
Note: if you have remapped Shift or Escape keys, you should press the remapped key.
You need to be in Power User Mode to create a layout or mount the flashmemory storage.
Create a Layout
steps to create a layout:
- Enter Power User Mode by pressing progm+Shift+Escape. (note: if you have remapped the Escape key or Shift key , you should press those keys.) (All 4 LEDs flash 4 times on activation, 2 times on deactivation.)
- Press progm+F2, then all LED lights will keep flashing.
- Press a letter key (for example, press x). LED lights will now stop flashing. This means, you have created a layout labeled “x”
- Done.
The newly created layout is a copy of the layout that was active at the time you created it. It includes all key remap and macro at the time. If you want to start fresh, do a Soft Reset first.
Press progm+status and you'll see the line “Current keyboard config file> x_dvorak.txt”.
Now, you can continue to create key remap or macro. They will be saved as part of the current layout.
Switch to a User Layout
• progm+a to switch and reload the variant “a” of the current active layout (“a_qwerty.txt” or “a_dvorak.txt”.).Similarly forprogm+bprogm+cetc.But you need to create it first.
When you switch to a layout, it will reload the corresponding config file stored in memory.
Open Flash Drive
- Enter Power User Mode by pressing progm+Shift+Escape. (note: if you have remapped the Escape key or Shift key , you should press those keys.) (All 4 LEDs flash 4 times on activation, 2 times on deactivation.)
- press progm+F1 to Open or close the V-drive. (capslock LED will flash 4 times if opening, 2 times if closing.).
Now, goto your OS's file viewer, and you can see the drive icon.(You might need to wait a few seconds before it shows up. On my linux box, I wait 4 seconds for my OS to automatically popup a window showing the mounted drive.)The drive is named “KINESIS KB”.
The file path:
- On linux:
/media/user_name/KINESIS KB/
- On MacOS:
/Volumes/KINESIS KB/
by default, there are these directories:
- active
- firmware
- System Volume Information
In the directory named “active”, you can open a layout file and edit it or email to friend.
The files“dvorak.txt”and“qwerty.txt” are the default.If you haven't created any key remap or macro, they are empty files.
If you have created layouts, you will see file named like these:
- “a_qwerty.txt”
- “b_qwerty.txt”
- “c_qwerty.txt”
- …
or
- “a_dvorak.txt”
- “b_dvorak.txt”
- “c_dvorak.txt”
- …
They are the layouts you created.
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Edit Layout Config File
You can edit a layout config file directly and have keyboard reload it.
Just open the file in a text editor.
To reload the layout, just close the v-drive, by pressing progm+F1.
For example, here's my “d_dvorak.txt” file:
Here's the diagram of it:
switch to last app
Make End switch to last app. Harman kardon troubleshooting.
Mac:
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Microsoft Windows:
Shift Embedded Numberpad
Make End as shift for the embedded numberpad.
Make the Number Row Do Symbols
Key syntax
For the key syntax, best is to record a macro or remap keys. Then, when you open the layout file, you can see the key syntax used.
Letter keys are capitalized.
- key a, syntax
A
- b
B
- c
C
Number keys is itself.
- 0
0
- 1
1
- 2
2
Most punctuation keys is itself.
Except
- [ is
obrack
- ] is
cbrack
- - is
hyphen
Modifier keys:
lshift
lwin
(also mean left ⌘command)lctrl
rctrl
rshift
rwin
(also mean right ⌘command)ralt
lalt
More special keys:
enter
tab
space
delete
→ Delete (forward)bspace
→ Backspacecaps
→ CapsLockescape
menu
→ the menu/apps context menu key.
home
end
pup
→ page uppdown
→ page down
prtscr
→ print screenscroll
→ scroll lockpause
→ pause keynumlk
→ number lockcalc
→ the calculator launcher keyshutdn
→ the shutdown keyintl‐
→ international key
Arrow keys:
left
right
up
down
Extra function keys not on keyboard:
F13
F14
F15
F16
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Keypad keys:
kp0
kp1
kp2
kp3
kp4
kp5
kp6
kp7
kp8
kp9
kp.
→ keypad period keykpmin
→ keypad minus keykpplus
kp=
→ keypad equal sign key on the Mackp=mac
→ keypad equal sign key on the Mackpmult
kpenter
→ the enter key on keypad
Multimedia keys:
next
→ Next Trackprev
→ Previous Trackplay
→ playmute
→ mutevol-
→ volume downvol+
→ volume up
Kinesis special keys:
kptoggle
→ toggle number pad on/off.kpshift
→ shift modifier to turn on number pad.
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- Thanks to Kinesis corp
- 2020-07-03 thanks to David Cole https://twitter.com/batchout/status/1278751694638264322
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- 2020-07-03 thanks to Arjen Laarhoven https://twitter.com/ArjenL/status/1278394713897414657
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