Alternative Teletype keyboard recommendations (mechanical, wireless, etc)

drxcm · 2016-12-27T00:17:11.580Z

I’m loving playing with teletype, but don’t really like typing in commands on the included keyboard.

Has anyone tried a mechanical cherry switch keyboard? Most of the ones I can find locally have backlights etc which I’m not sure will work with TT.

Anyone out there have other recommendations for a better feeling keyboard that will work?

tehn · 2016-12-27T00:39:21.199Z

they should work provided they don’t have a built-in USB hub.

drxcm · 2016-12-27T00:43:45.241Z

thanks for the quick reply - sorry for my misunderstanding but are you saying a backlit keyboard (without a hub) will likely work? or simply a mechanical keyboard?

tehn · 2016-12-27T00:44:34.154Z

if the mechanical keyboard (backlit or not) does not have a USB hub built-in, and simply appears to the TT as a “usb HID class keyboard” it will work. sorry for the confusion!

Random · 2016-12-27T01:43:39.278Z

I just plugged a zowie celeritas modded cherry brown keyboard (one of my kids is a pro gamer… we have these things sitting around…) in and it worked just fine. It isn’t backlit, though, so if that is a variable in terms of this working I can’t attest to that.

drxcm · 2016-12-27T01:54:58.005Z

superb - don’t really care about the backlight, just the keys - will go shopping and report back here with my results

bpcmusic · 2016-12-27T02:45:54.642Z

My TT has been grumpy with backlit keyboards. Doesn’t seem to like the power drain.

jnoble · 2016-12-27T06:52:42.790Z

On a related note, has anyone tried any wireless keyboards with a teletype?

sakul · 2016-12-27T10:01:00.557Z

not kb, but wireless num pad

Numeric Keypad for Teletype - which ones work? Monome

this cheap wireless num pad works like a charm. I remember when testing the first time some months ago, my experience was rather flakey. sometimes it would work and next time not. I was very happy today to find out that I couldn’t make it to not work with several attempts. (maybe tehns usb code refactoring some time ago for better pen drive support did fix it?) https://vid.me/VqtS

adammokan · 2017-01-24T22:38:02.039Z

I use a KBC Poker 3 with mine. Works perfect.

jnoble · 2017-02-08T11:32:00.826Z

Hi all, I just found a wireless keyboard at Office Depot that works with my Teletype! It’s a Microsoft N9Z-00001 and it’s made to appear to the host machine as a HID device. I just plugged the included USB transceiver into the Teletype and it worked. I don’t know yet if there are any compatibility issues; I’ll post here if I find any.

Here it is on Amazon:

amazon.com

Amazon.com: Microsoft Wireless All-In-One Media Keyboard (N9Z-00001): Computers & Accessories

I paid $10 more at Office Depot, but I’m so stoked I don’t care!

nimmen · 2017-02-08T08:42:18.163Z

Thats good to know, I’m also having some usability issues with my cable spaghetti all around, would definitely like to have keyboard on TT in wireless mode.

jnoble · 2017-02-08T17:59:48.518Z

Oh, here’s my post!

I posted a new thread about it because this one was about mechanical keyboards, and I don’t care a whit about clacky things with cables: I wanted a wireless solution, as do many others.