Logitech Wireless Keyboard MK700 Fn functionality about solaar

[Lekensteyn]

Looks like this is a HID++ 1.0 device as the battery status register 07 is readable. Can you try the fkeyswap branch from https://git.lekensteyn.nl/ltunify/?

ltunify is a unpairing tool that I created before I knew of Solaar. See http://askubuntu.com/revisions/285604/2 for usage instructions of the fkeyswap command of ltunify (or run ltunify --help after building).

[pwr]

Should be fixed in 0.8.8 -- can anyone check this?

[brumoen]

Hi, first of sorry for the delay, have been living in Windows for a while again due to work related stuff, just downloaded and installed the 0.8.8.1 version in Linux Mint 14 (Nadia). I got battery status on the Performance MX mouse, but nothing new on the keyboard identified with MK700 in the device list, not any options to change any settings, the only thing is unpair and it shows a battery icon with a questions mark.

Info on the keyboard gives me this:
Protocol : HID++ 1.0
Polling rate : 20 ms
Wireless PID : 2008
Serial : FCEBB181
Firmware : 25.00.B0009
Notifications : battery status

Edit:
Just updated to 0.8.9.1 and it's still the same, except some graphical changes and instead of battery with question mark on the MK700 it now shows a battery with a x and the text "no status".

Pasted a debug log here if needed:
http://pastebin.com/RxdLXwbY

[Lekensteyn]

@brumoen Your MK700 keyboard has not been added to Solaar. Please clone solaar from git and run tools/scan-registers.sh 2 > mk700.txt (assuming that you have not unpaired your device since you provided that solaar log)

[brumoen]

@Lekensteyn That gave me this in the txt file:

Moved the paste into pastebin since it made no sense when pasted here:
http://pastebin.com/RuqnzbjX

[Lekensteyn]

@brumoen Please wait for the command to finish (i.e., return to the terminal). Do not abort it. There should be a lot more lines.

[brumoen]

@Lekensteyn Ok, it's still running I just grabbed the contents from the txt file via another terminal.. :) I just cat'ed it again and it has been added more lines so it's still working.

[brumoen]

@Lekensteyn Then it finished, updated the pastebin post with the current contents of the txt file. :)

[Lekensteyn]

I forgot to ask to close Solaar and note that you should run only one instance of get-registers. Anyway, let me try to make some sense from it.

[Lekensteyn]

Please try the updates branch in at https://github.com/Lekensteyn/Solaar/tree/updates

[brumoen]

Then it seems like it works. :) The Fx function works just fine.

Not sure about the battery status for the keyboard tho, since that one shows 90% and I've had this combo for almost 2 months now and I've not charged nor swapped the batteries yet, and I'm not a light keyboard user. The mouse on the other hand seems to be almost correct, it shows 90% as text, but the icon shows a fully charged battery, and it did so earlier today while I unplugged it after charging it full.

Thx for the help with this one. :)

Now I only need to find a way to trigger the DPI-switch on the mouse(lower thumb-button) and a way to get those damn media buttons to work with Spotify and other media players. Volume buttons works just fine, but not next, prev and play/pause my old MX5500 combo worked just fine tho, but I guess Logitech has been messing with the keycodes again since I have issues in some applications on Windows as well so I had to reassign the buttons in SetPoint.

[pwr]

@brumoen : the battery charge on the MK700 is approximative (the kerboard does not report the exact percentage, just full/good/low/critical). The M705 mouse however is reporting an exact percentage value -- although my M705 only reports in 5% steps.

The standard battery icons from the Linux distros are also "approximative", in 20% increments. So anything >= 90% will show a full battery.

[brumoen]

@Lekensteyn Just paired my M705 mouse and I can see that, strange that they haven't used the same reporting values. But I guess full, good, low and critical is enough for their normal users..

That explains why the icon shows a fully charged battery then.. :)

Do you have any issues with the M705 mouse not moving focus when you have it in "free scroll" mode? Just noticed that the window under the cursor don't get focused when I have it in "free scroll" mode, but when I set it in "click scroll" mode focus follows the mouse all the time. Strange behavior since I've not noticed that with the MX mouse. What's even stranger is that if I use the MX mouse to move around it does, but if I use the M705 it doesn't. Just as if the mouse has something it should say on that, but that's not Solaar's problem.. :)

[pwr]

Hm, the focus behaviour is strange -- though I'd guess that's handled by the window manger. My M705 always switches focus (Xfce4).

[brumoen]

Using Mate here, but I've not had issues with this before, neither with the MX Revolution Mouse or my good OLD MS Explorer mouse connected at the same time. But it's not an issue I'll bother to dig further into atm since the M705 mouse is heading out the door with my daughter in a couple of days and I've not managed to get her into using linux yet, her games won't work, so that problem won't come back biting my a** in a while anyway.

But then I see this "bug" as fixed.. :) Was more like a feature request than a bug, but either way it works as good as it is possible to get it working.. Thanks to both of you, now I'm one step closer to get everything on this box working again after getting the latest nVidia drivers in place as well and my three headed monitor setup working as wanted. :) Just missing some minor adjustments to some applications and all is good to go without Windows unless it's running on a virtual machine.