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Andy Burns  writes:

> Andy Burns wrote:
>
>> I think it can only write to the keyboard's flash when you put it
>> into firmware mode, so probably not as easy as that ...
>
> Perhaps QMK could partition the flash,to allow storing the macro
> translations separate from the firmware/keymap?

Yes, I thought that would be a way but I haven't found any mention
anywhere that something like that is supported. Partitioning probably
needs support from the flash itself too. Another way would be to store
them in RAM but I suppose a lot of these microcontrollers used on
keyboards are really limited on the amount of that. And they'd be
volatile then and RAM probably isn't accessible from USB directly so
that'd need some support at both ends of the USB cable. Then again, in
this day and age volatile storage has an appeal.

I kinda thought macros are a popular feature. My particular interest is
in putting wifi passwords into things that support a USB keyboard but
aren't really computers. I thought online gamers might use text macros
too since some keyboards have this macro feature but I guess gamers
mainly use voice.

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