[RESPONDED] OpenRGB support

[MJ1]

@Chris_Herborth

Can someone ELI5 on what I need to do with this?

I grabbed the repo and its submodules, but can’t seem to find any useful build docs, and make tells me I need to run qmk setup; but doesn’t qmk come from this repo? I have no idea what I’m doing.

QMK’s build environment needs to be set up, if you haven’t done so.
I wrote a how-to for compiling and flashing here

Custom QMK firmware?

Preamble For normal use, you can configure your keyboard by going to keyboard.frame.work. Flashing or building firmware is not necessary, and it does carry risk. If you kill your keyboard, I presume it’s not covered by warranty. • Keyboard QMK firmware, getting the right files to build. This is only for the Framework 16. The Framework 13 does not use QMK. I’ve seen a couple people unsure where to get the right branch to compile the firmware. It’s presumed that you already have your QMK buil…

For the “Download the Framework Firmware repo” part, you would clone this repo instead of Framework’s

git clone https://github.com/tagno25/qmk_firmware.git

Then to control the LEDs follow instructions to install the OpenRGB app gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB
You need to add your keyboard in the OpenRGB app. Go to the Settings tab, scroll down to OpenRGB QMK Protocol, then click add. Enter the following
Name: Framework Laptop 16 Keyboard Module - ANSI
USB VID: 32AC
USB VID: 0012
Click Save

For the macropad it would be USB VID: 0013

Then try clicking Rescan Devices, if nothing shows up in the Devices tab you might have to restart the app, but first click the Save Profile button.