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Typeractive.xyz•2mo ago

[SOLVED] How to name my keyboard?

Hi, I just built my first Corne keyboard thanks to typeractive.xyz! How do I rename my keyboard? I'd like it to show up as "David's Corne" in the bluetooth menu. I couldn't find any ZMK documentation of which configuration file I would need to modify and how to change the human readable name (nor any other unique identifiers for the keyboard). Any help would be appreciated! PS - I typed most of this on my new wireless split keyboard 😄

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TyperAI•2mo ago

To rename your Corne keyboard for Bluetooth visibility, you'll need to modify the ZMK configuration file. Specifically, you'll be looking for the dts (Device Tree Source) file associated with your keyboard configuration. Here’s how to do it: 1. Locate Your Configuration Repository: If you haven't already, clone the ZMK configuration repository for your Corne keyboard. You can find the repository for your specific layout (6-column or 5-column) on GitHub. 2. Edit the Device Tree Source File: Open the corne.dts file located in the boards/arm/ directory of your configuration repository. 3. Modify the Bluetooth Name: Look for the section that defines the Bluetooth settings. You should find a line that looks like this:

   bt_name = "Your Keyboard Name";

   bt_name = "Your Keyboard Name";

Change "Your Keyboard Name" to "David's Corne". 4. Build Your Firmware: After making the change, save the file and build your firmware using the GitHub Actions in your repository. This will create a new firmware file with your updated Bluetooth name. 5. Flash the Firmware: Once the new firmware is built, follow the steps to flash it onto your nice!nano. This typically involves connecting the nice!nano to your computer, entering the bootloader mode, and dragging the new .uf2 file onto the NICENANO drive. After completing these steps, your keyboard should show up as "David's Corne" in the Bluetooth menu. Enjoy your new keyboard! 🎉

davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

I cloned https://github.com/typeractivexyz/corne-wireless-view-zmk-config but I don't see a boards/arm/ directory, nor a corne.dts file. Should I create the path and file? I added the file in the path as instructed, rebuilt the firmware, and loaded it on. It didn't seem to change the name of the bluetooth keyboard.

Kitte•2mo ago

have you changed it on the corne.conf when in visual code? there you can type CONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME="your name" @davidianstyle

davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

Yes, I tried that as well but still no luck

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davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

Do I need to "forget bluetooth device"? I would've expected it would just change how it identifies itself so I didn't do anything else

Kitte•2mo ago

try that and connect it again

davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

No dice - still just says "Corne"

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Kitte•2mo ago

saw someone else change the shield in the build.yaml to what he wanted his board name to be should say corne_left and corne_right, might be it but not sure

Kitte•2mo ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_urj-rF3bQ&t=300s

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How to Set Up ZMK Firmware From Scratch

This video should hopefully help you regardless of if you just want to build firmware for an existing board or create one entirely from scratch. We'll cover both matrix wiring and direct pin wiring along with keymaps, compiling, and flashing. ZMK heavily leverages GitHub Actions meaning everything is compiled remotely making it possible to compi...

Kitte•2mo ago

about 2:30 in

davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

Hm...I'll give that a shot but it's hard to imagine that's where the bluetooth name comes from since you can't use a space character in that

Kitte•2mo ago

yeah, i dont think so either, since the hesitation

mister_crab•2mo ago

Pretty sure the shield name isn't related to the Bluetooth name That just tells the compiler what version of ZMK to pull for your specific board.

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mister_crab•2mo ago

That was more the direction I was thinking I've always been able to change names on my computer

davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

Ha, that was way simpler and worked - thanks!

mister_crab•2mo ago

😂

davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

Correction: That only seemed to work locally on that one computer which means it's not writing the name to the keyboard device itself 😕 I tried connecting to my keyboard on a different computer and it's showing up as "Corne" again.

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davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

Hm, unfortunately, this didn't work either. Where in the build.yaml file would I put this? Here's what I have in it currently:

# This file generates the GitHub Actions matrix
# For simple board + shield combinations, add them
# to the top level board and shield arrays, for more
# control, add individual board + shield combinations to
# the `include` property, e.g:
#
# board: [ "nice_nano_v2" ]
# shield: [ "corne_left", "corne_right" ]
# include:
#   - board: bdn9_rev2
#   - board: nice_nano_v2
#     shield: reviung41
#
---
include:
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_left nice_view_adapter nice_view
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_right nice_view_adapter nice_view

# This file generates the GitHub Actions matrix
# For simple board + shield combinations, add them
# to the top level board and shield arrays, for more
# control, add individual board + shield combinations to
# the `include` property, e.g:
#
# board: [ "nice_nano_v2" ]
# shield: [ "corne_left", "corne_right" ]
# include:
#   - board: bdn9_rev2
#   - board: nice_nano_v2
#     shield: reviung41
#
---
include:
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_left nice_view_adapter nice_view
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_right nice_view_adapter nice_view

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davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

# Name the keyboard
CONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME="David's Corne"

# Uncomment the following line to enable deep sleep
# CONFIG_ZMK_SLEEP=y

# Uncomment the following line to increase the keyboard's wireless range
CONFIG_BT_CTLR_TX_PWR_PLUS_8=y

# Enable eager debouncing
CONFIG_ZMK_KSCAN_DEBOUNCE_PRESS_MS=1
CONFIG_ZMK_KSCAN_DEBOUNCE_RELEASE_MS=7

# Uncomment the following line to enable USB Logging (this increases power usage by a significant amount, turn it off when not in use)
# CONFIG_ZMK_USB_LOGGING=y

# Name the keyboard
CONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME="David's Corne"

# Uncomment the following line to enable deep sleep
# CONFIG_ZMK_SLEEP=y

# Uncomment the following line to increase the keyboard's wireless range
CONFIG_BT_CTLR_TX_PWR_PLUS_8=y

# Enable eager debouncing
CONFIG_ZMK_KSCAN_DEBOUNCE_PRESS_MS=1
CONFIG_ZMK_KSCAN_DEBOUNCE_RELEASE_MS=7

# Uncomment the following line to enable USB Logging (this increases power usage by a significant amount, turn it off when not in use)
# CONFIG_ZMK_USB_LOGGING=y

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davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

I'll give it a shot with no single quote btw - trying with in build.yaml:

cmake-args:
  -DCONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME=\"Davids_Corne\"

cmake-args:
  -DCONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME=\"Davids_Corne\"

makes it such that the GitHub Action only produces one firmware file corne_right nice_view_adapter nice_view-nice_nano_v2-zmk.uf2 and doesn't create the corresponding corne_left* file

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davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

ah, I see I'll try that next if removing the single quote doesn't work

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davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

most languages I've worked with, single quotes inside double quotes and double quotes inside single quotes usually work with no problem

davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

here's the repo: https://github.com/davidianstyle/corne-wireless-view-zmk-config

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davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

working on the colemak-dh branch Removing single quote didn't work. Gonna try the cmake-args the right way this time. Just for posterity, here is my build.yaml after adding cmake-args:

# This file generates the GitHub Actions matrix
# For simple board + shield combinations, add them
# to the top level board and shield arrays, for more
# control, add individual board + shield combinations to
# the `include` property, e.g:
#
# board: [ "nice_nano_v2" ]
# shield: [ "corne_left", "corne_right" ]
# include:
#   - board: bdn9_rev2
#   - board: nice_nano_v2
#     shield: reviung41
#
---
include:
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_left nice_view_adapter nice_view
    cmake-args:
      - DCONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME=\"Davids_Corne\"
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_right nice_view_adapter nice_view
    cmake-args:
      - DCONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME=\"Davids_Corne\"

# This file generates the GitHub Actions matrix
# For simple board + shield combinations, add them
# to the top level board and shield arrays, for more
# control, add individual board + shield combinations to
# the `include` property, e.g:
#
# board: [ "nice_nano_v2" ]
# shield: [ "corne_left", "corne_right" ]
# include:
#   - board: bdn9_rev2
#   - board: nice_nano_v2
#     shield: reviung41
#
---
include:
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_left nice_view_adapter nice_view
    cmake-args:
      - DCONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME=\"Davids_Corne\"
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_right nice_view_adapter nice_view
    cmake-args:
      - DCONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME=\"Davids_Corne\"

Let me know if you see any issues with my yaml, but it passes a yaml validator so I'm assuming this is correct.

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davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

Ok, added it to the end of my build.yaml:

# This file generates the GitHub Actions matrix
# For simple board + shield combinations, add them
# to the top level board and shield arrays, for more
# control, add individual board + shield combinations to
# the `include` property, e.g:
#
# board: [ "nice_nano_v2" ]
# shield: [ "corne_left", "corne_right" ]
# include:
#   - board: bdn9_rev2
#   - board: nice_nano_v2
#     shield: reviung41
#
---
include:
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_left nice_view_adapter nice_view
    cmake-args:
      - DCONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME=\"Davids_Corne\"
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_right nice_view_adapter nice_view
    cmake-args:
      - DCONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME=\"Davids_Corne\"
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: settings_reset

# This file generates the GitHub Actions matrix
# For simple board + shield combinations, add them
# to the top level board and shield arrays, for more
# control, add individual board + shield combinations to
# the `include` property, e.g:
#
# board: [ "nice_nano_v2" ]
# shield: [ "corne_left", "corne_right" ]
# include:
#   - board: bdn9_rev2
#   - board: nice_nano_v2
#     shield: reviung41
#
---
include:
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_left nice_view_adapter nice_view
    cmake-args:
      - DCONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME=\"Davids_Corne\"
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_right nice_view_adapter nice_view
    cmake-args:
      - DCONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME=\"Davids_Corne\"
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: settings_reset

I'll load that on as soon as the build completes

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davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

So, I first load the settings_reset.uf2 on and then the correct firmware?

davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

That worked! Thank you @Dave uRrr 🙏🏽 and thank you to @Kitte @Shiny @mister_crab for offering your suggestions.

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davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

Yes, so it looks like the CONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME in corne.conf is the right variable to be setting. Just needed to reset both boards first with your settings_reset.uf2 for it to take effect. For those coming here looking for a tl;dr version of the solution: 1. Make sure /config/corne.conf has CONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME variable set

# Name the keyboard
CONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME="David's Corne"
...
# Other settings

# Name the keyboard
CONFIG_ZMK_KEYBOARD_NAME="David's Corne"
...
# Other settings

2. Create a reset firmware by editing build.yaml:

# For simple board + shield combinations, add them
# to the top level board and shield arrays, for more
# control, add individual board + shield combinations to
# the `include` property, e.g:
#
# board: [ "nice_nano_v2" ]
# shield: [ "corne_left", "corne_right" ]
# include:
#   - board: bdn9_rev2
#   - board: nice_nano_v2
#     shield: reviung41
#
---
include:
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_left nice_view_adapter nice_view
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_right nice_view_adapter nice_view
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: settings_reset

# For simple board + shield combinations, add them
# to the top level board and shield arrays, for more
# control, add individual board + shield combinations to
# the `include` property, e.g:
#
# board: [ "nice_nano_v2" ]
# shield: [ "corne_left", "corne_right" ]
# include:
#   - board: bdn9_rev2
#   - board: nice_nano_v2
#     shield: reviung41
#
---
include:
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_left nice_view_adapter nice_view
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: corne_right nice_view_adapter nice_view
  - board: nice_nano_v2
    shield: settings_reset

3. Load settings_reset-nice_nano_v2-zmk.uf2 onto both boards 4. Load corne_left nice_view_adapter nice_view-nice_nano_v2-zmk.uf2 onto left board 5. Load corne_right nice_view_adapter nice_view-nice_nano_v2-zmk.uf2 onto right board 6. Done!

davidianstyleOP•2mo ago

Davids_Corne

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