Typeractive.xyz•2w ago

Corne won't connect to AMD Framework 13 Laptop/AMD RZ616 Wi-Fi 6E

I recently bought a Corne with all the parts (except the key switches) from Typeractive. However, it won't connect to my laptop. I've had it pair once, but it wouldn't pick up any keystrokes. So I then unpaired it to try again, and Windows just throws a "Try connecting your device again." error. I've cleared my profiles, reflashed, and rebooted. It successfully pairs to my phone and another Windows desktop I have. The laptop's Bluetooth card is the AMD RZ616 Wi-Fi 6E. Framework's website claims it supports Bluetooth 5.2. I know it's probably not the board itself, so is there anything I could do, or do I just have to suck it up and buy an adapter? Or perhaps does anyone with the same laptop or card get it working somehow?

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TyperAI•2w ago

It sounds like you've done a lot of troubleshooting already! Since it pairs with other devices, the issue is likely with your laptop's Bluetooth. Some devices have poor BLE support. You can try updating your drivers or using an alternate BLE card. You can also try enabling increased transmit power and disabling 2M PHY in your ZMK config. See our Poor Range guide for more info. If you're still having issues, feel free to reply to this message or tag me for further help!

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dabricOP•2w ago

found this forum post on this server with the same issue and Bluetooth card, so it probably is just my laptop not supporting something https://discord.com/channels/924164891990978570/1322963218024501319 I've done both of those things to increase range, and it's still giving the same error. here's my corne.conf: https://github.com/hf02/corne-layout/blob/main/config/corne.conf

# Uncomment the following lines to enable the Corne RGB Underglow
# CONFIG_ZMK_RGB_UNDERGLOW=y
# CONFIG_WS2812_STRIP=y

# Uncomment the following line to enable the Corne OLED Display
CONFIG_ZMK_DISPLAY=y

CONFIG_BT_CTLR_PHY_2M=n

CONFIG_BT_CTLR_TX_PWR_PLUS_8=y

# Uncomment the following lines to enable the Corne RGB Underglow
# CONFIG_ZMK_RGB_UNDERGLOW=y
# CONFIG_WS2812_STRIP=y

# Uncomment the following line to enable the Corne OLED Display
CONFIG_ZMK_DISPLAY=y

CONFIG_BT_CTLR_PHY_2M=n

CONFIG_BT_CTLR_TX_PWR_PLUS_8=y

Maba_Kalox•2w ago

Just advise found on https://github.com/zmkfirmware/zmk/issues/1487, try to use expermental BLE, by adding CONFIG_ZMK_BLE_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES=y into conf

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dabricOP•2w ago

yep, this worked! thx!

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