Miryoku x Keyball

[sohrab-]

I am trying to apply Miryoku to Keyball39. It supports QMK and provides a couple of layouts out of the box.

Is there a way to readily apply Miryoku to this keyboard? (Sorry if this is a dumb question but I am still trying to get my head around QMK.)

As far as I can tell, it doesn't support community layouts or use the new info.json stuff.

If this requires some legwork, I am happy to do the work to get the layout integrated but I probably need some pointers on the approach.

[manna-harbour]

First you'll need to merge the keyboard definition with Miryoku QMK. Ordinarily that could be done with the workflow automatic merge function, but at the moment it will need to be copied manually. See #287.

Other than that you need to add a mapping to Miryoku QMK. See #264 (reply in thread). Refer to https://github.com/Yowkees/keyball/blob/98595e59944192ab47df3936b4b892a5f15bc846/qmk_firmware/keyboards/keyball/keyball39/keymaps/default/keymap.c#L27-L30.

Since there are only 2 thumb keys on the ball side you'll also need to enable thumb combos.

Mappings can also be added by request.

[nomm-dot]

Thank you, this helped a lot. I copied your config.h into the custom_config.h, and changed the RGBLIGHT_ENABLE to yes in custom_rules.mk. I ran your provided make command with slight modifications and got an error claiming it could not find a keymap, but it seems to be referencing the keymap in the keyball39 dir instead of the miryoku keymap.

[noah@Framework:~/qmk_firmware]$ make SKIP_GIT=yes clean keyball/keyball39:manna-harbour_miryoku MIRYOKU_ALPHAS=QWERTY MIRYOKU_NAV=INVERTEDT MIRYOKU_KLUDGE_THUMBCOMBOS=yes 
Deleting .build/ ... done.
☒ Not including data from file: keyboards/keyball/keyball39/info.json
☒       rgblight: Additional properties are not allowed ('driver' was unexpected)☒ keyball/keyball39: No LAYOUTs defined! Need at least one layout defined in info.json.
Making keyball/keyball39 with keymap manna-harbour_miryoku

☒ Not including data from file: keyboards/keyball/keyball39/info.json
☒       rgblight: Additional properties are not allowed ('driver' was unexpected)☒ keyball/keyball39: No LAYOUTs defined! Need at least one layout defined in info.json.

 * Could not find keymap                                                                               [ERRORS]

builddefs/build_keyboard.mk:157: *** Invalid keymap.  Stop.
Make finished with errors
make: *** [Makefile:389: keyball/keyball39:manna-harbour_miryoku] Error 1

I've got the my directory structure the same as yours ~/qmk_firmware/keyboards/keyball/keyball39/keymaps/manna-harbour_miryoku

[sohrab-]

Did you symlink per the doc?

[nomm-dot]

I did, I believe I did it correctly. I don't use symlinks too often. here's a screenshot of what it looks like in the terminal.

and here is the command I ran from the ~/qmk_firmware directory. I also commented out the OLED and RGB_ENABLE, but that did not seem to change the output at all.

Additionally, this may or may not be common or relevant, but there's a qmk_firmware directory inside of the keyball directory. This seems strange to me.

[nomm-dot]

Would you be able to make keyball39 miryoku config available in a repo so that I can compare it to what I have? I started from scratch, but still getting the same errors. I must be missing obvious, or something that will be difficult to get assistance with over a format like this. I've only used qmk and zmk through github actions, so my basic understanding at this point is very minimal.

[sohrab-]

Yeah, this looks ok to me. If inside the QMK cloned repo, you can do this, then the symlink is done correctly:

λ ls keyboards/keyball/keyball39/keymaps/manna-harbour_miryoku
config.h keymap.c rules.mk

I do also note I am 0.22.14 git tag of QMK repo.

The qmk_firmware inside keyball repo is fine. That's what you are symlinking if you look at your previous screenshot.

I haven't made any other changes but here is my git patch anyway if this helps: keyball.patch