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Safe way to update Keychron mechanical keyboard firmware? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by chippydingo@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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As noted in the title, I am trying to figure out the safest way to update the firmware on my recently purchased Keychron K1 QMK V6 keyboard. I was finally able to get the web based Keychron Launcher app to talk to my KB after using chmod to give the correct HIDRAW device read-write access but it looks like the new firmware needs another utility to be installed and only the Windoze directions are provided.

From my own online research it looks like there is a terminal-based method but it wasn't really explained. I am not super concerned about updating the firmware since the preloaded version works well enough for my needs but I am still wondering if anyone knew of a tutorial on how to do this without bricking my shiny new keyboard.

I am using Fedora 43 Workstation if that makes any difference. Thanks in advance for any tips or advice!

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[-] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Why do you need to update the firmware? They say explicitly to not do it unless there's a need to do so. From their website:

Note: If everything works fine with your keyboard. Please don’t update the firmware. There is a chance it can damage your keyboard.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

When they do this, they know they have a problem with their flash utils and process 🤣

I'd leave it alone.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Or maybe its because flashing firmware is inherently risky. Any power loss mid flash would brick the device.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Unless you live in a place with inherently unreliable power, or are flashing in the middle of a thunderstorm/tornado/hurricane/typhoon/earthquake/etc, Flashing is relatively safe as long as you follow directions.

And those risk could be completely eliminated with a dual bios setup, where even if there WAS a failure, it could fall back on the other bios and still work flawlessly. or even better, let you flash the currently inactive one, and switches that to primary upon successful flash. I think even flashback lets you recover from a corrupted bios, too?

So yes, it circles around back to them being cheap and having problems with their process, because they are cheap.

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