Kaleidoscope-USB-Quirks

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Using the plugin

After adding one-shot keys to the keymap, all one needs to do, is enable the plugin:

#include <Kaleidoscope.h>
#include <Kaleidoscope-Macros.h>
#include <Kaleidoscope-USB-Quirks.h>

KALEIDOSCOPE_INIT_PLUGINS(USBQuirks, Macros);

const macro_t *macroAction(uint8_t macroIndex, uint8_t keyState) {
  if (macroIndex == 0) {
    USBQuirks.toggleKeyboardProtocol();
  }
  return MACRO_NONE;
}

void setup() {
  Kaleidoscope.setup();
}

Plugin methods

The plugin provides one object, USBQuirks, which provides the following method:

.toggleKeyboardProtocol()

Toggle between Boot and Report protocol by detaching, and then re-attaching the USB devices, and setting the BootKeyboard protocol inbetween.

This is most useful when one needs to have a boot keyboard, when one's in a BIOS, boot loader, or early password prompt or the like, and the host does not explicitly request the boot protocol for one reason or the other. With this toggle, we can switch between the two on-demand.