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New User / New Poker II - Questions [help]

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Hello, new subscriber / lurker here, and a new owner of my first mech keyboard, which happens to be the New Poker II. Some questions, in case another owner (or connoisseur) can help me out (tried posting in a thread about this keyboard but got no response):

  1. I want to move the Fn button to the Caps Lock button, or at least duplicate it. The goal is to hold down the Caps Lock button and use the R-Shift, Fn, Pn and R-Ctrl buttons as arrow keys (without having to use the dip-switch which permanently gets them there and disables all the aforementioned keys' usage). Is such a thing possible?

  2. Are there ANY alternative cases with a USB-C port opening?

  3. Any good braided / fancy USB-C cables out there or will I have to resort to a micro-USB converter for now?

Thanks!

Posted Jun 7, 2017, 3:05 PM UTC

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DangerG150g Kailh Silver•

You need to use programming mode to swap the buttons. I have never owned a poker but that is how you reprogram stuff.

Should be able to find info online or in the manual.

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ChromaticProgressOP•

I've learned a bit about that but was looking for more specific guidance...thanks, though! :)

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K-MakUSB Type-C All The Things•

Keyclack used to offer fancy type C cables but not anymore. You could probably just Google custom sleeved Type C cable. Mimic Cables and Winnja came up as my first two results.

However, you can find plenty of color options on Amazon or eBay nowadays given the prevalence of Type C. Honestly, the connectors used on the 5 dollar cable and the 25 dollar cable are no better or worse than one another. You just need to make sure it is manufactured to spec with the appropriate resistor, although I don't think a keyboard would blow itself up like a laptop would. If someone could verify, that'd be helpful.

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ChromaticProgressOP•

Thank you for the info! It's more about aesthetics and braiding for durability rather than the connector itself, but that's useful information. :)

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la_syUbe Overload New Poker II•

FN can be swapped by flipping dip switch 3 on, pressing FN, pressing capslock, and then turning dip switch off.

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ChromaticProgressOP•

Thanks! Will try this soon and see what I can do.

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ChromaticProgressOP•

So, it turns out that it's not really possible to replicate dip switch 4 functionality EXACTLY with programming (because Fn + Right Shift is reserved for switching layers) but I managed to do something pretty close to that by doing the following (through remapping Fn and Pn via Switch 3 functionality):

Fn + / = Up arrow

Fn + Right Alt = Left Arrow

Fn + Where Fn was = Down Arrow

Fn + Where Pn was = Right Arrow

To do this, follow these steps:

Switch to your programmable layer of choice with Fn + Right Shift (doesn't work on default layer).

Dip Switch 3 to ON

Press Fn

Press Caps Lock

Dip Switch 3 to OFF

Dip Switch 3 to ON

Press Pn

Press Win key

Dip Switch 3 to OFF

Now your Fn key is moved to your Caps Lock key and your Pn key is moved to your Win key.

With this configuration, program your keys in this way:

Press Caps Lock (current Fn) + Control to enter programming mode

Press Caps Lock (current Fn) + / , then release

Press Caps Lock (current Fn) + W, then release

Press Win key (current Pn)

Press Caps Lock (current Fn) + Control to exit programming mode.

Repeat the steps right above with the pairs

Right Alt / A

Fn / S

Pn / D

respectively to transfer the arrow keys to your right hand.

Hope that helped since I got help from no one with this and it took me a while to figure it out as a first time Poker user!

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