#29

Have you made sure that there is no system noise associated with dis/connecting hardware?

Additionally I might suspect that a cheap KVM switch could short out the USB port briefly while being toggled. This could open the resettable polyfuse for a brief moment. I donā€™t feel like this should affect your firewire interface unless your firewire port is protected by the same fuse as the USB.

#30

Windows does play a sound for USB device (dis)connection. That seems unlikely to be the cause though, since turning on my Microbrute (which is connected over USB) after Iā€™ve already got other things going doesnā€™t seem to matter (except that my DAW wonā€™t recognize it as a MIDI input device that way).

Itā€™s a Logitech keyboard with a driver for fancy lighting stuff, gaming profiles I donā€™t use etc. so itā€™s possible something about that is tying up I/O for a couple of seconds.

#31

Hmmā€¦ I notice the transport in Maschine actually stops briefly when I flip the switch. But itā€™s not due to temporarily losing its connection to the Maschine hardware, since I can unplug that without disturbing it and switching the keyboard still does.

Itā€™s also not the ā€œLogitech Gaming Softwareā€ driver.

I guess Iā€™ll just have to make sure I donā€™t switch the keyboard while Iā€™m recording something, and itā€™s probably okay image

#32

Just ran into the same issue as @robbbiecloset, Iā€™ve submitted a PR to update the relevant study: https://github.com/monome/docs/pull/32

Yay, first day with Teletype, and my first monome related PR!

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#33

Beat me to it! :sweat_smile:

Iā€™m sure there will be other opportunities.

#34

:sweat_smile: I found this thread after submitting the PR, low hanging fruit hehe.

#35

anybody already tried to connect a wireless keyboard (the ones with usb dongle)?

#36

try forum search for a bunch more possibly

#37

thanks!
any reason why some work and others not?

#38

Logitech keyboards with a Unifying receiver dongle work well with it. You have to pair it using a computer first, but then you can just plug it into the Teletype USB port afterwards.

Iā€™m using mine with a K780 keyboard which can switch between three devices.

#39

Iā€™m the guy with the Microsoft keyboard. It works great, I have been using it all this time with no trouble.

#40

ok, thanks for the advice, Iā€™ve ordered the Microsoft keyboard, will let you know how it goes:)
best,
pascal

#41

New Teletype owner here. Canā€™t get a keyboard to work with it. Iā€™ve tried two, both work fine with my Windows boxes. Keyboard 1 likes to stickā€¦ keys just reppppppppppppppppeat at random, sometimes donā€™t work at all. Keyboard 2 - the one that came with the Teletype - works great except for the Enter key, which works not at all. Again, no problems on other computers

Teletype version 3. Clearly from looking at previous messages I am not alone in this. I am inclined to believe this is an inherent design flaw in Teletype. Are there any steps that I can take to get a keyboard to work with this, other than trial and error?

#42

I havenā€™t had issues with the keyboard that came with Teletype, so Iā€™m not too up to date on the details, but I think there are a couple options. Some fixes have been made in recent firmwares to address dropped/repeated keys, so you might try updating to the latest beta, or waiting for the 3.1 release that the Teletype devs are planning on making soon (likely within a week or two). If youā€™re up to compiling the firmware yourself (I recommend this Docker image) I think you might also try tweaking the HID polling frequency for your specific keyboard and letting us know what works and for what model of keyboard. I think broadly that the trouble here probably arises from there being lots of behavior variation between different keyboards and the limited hardware resources on Teletype kind of necessitate adopting a simpler approach than full-fledged operating systems are able to use, but I also have basically zero first-hand experience with HID stacks in general or Teletypeā€™s specifically.

#43

e-mail info@monome.org and i can send you another!

#44

Thank you everyone. Given the impending release of 3.1 I will wait on both offers. I could figure out how to do the compile but that is not something I want to spend my limited free time on. @tehn, thank you for the offer on the kbd but again I will wait a bit. Testing with a third keyboard tonight.

#45

And later: the third keyboard works. This is a full-size HP keyboard, brand new (all my keyboards come from the spares pile at work). The two that donā€™t are the K-1000 mini-keyboard that came with the Teletype, and another mini-keyboard from work.

Looking forward to 3.1. I will report back on these keyboards then; maybe Iā€™ll install the beta this weekend. Very much looking forward to the output calibration as well, that was the next item on my list of things to ask about.

#46

Another happy new Teletype owner here. Well, almost happy. I also got some strange behaviour with the included keyboard:

When typing the letter T in live mode, the command TR gets displayed. Not sure if this is some kind of auto completion mechanism, but it also happens when I for example try typing the second T
in TR.TIME.

Also, when typing the letters I or P (e. g. when entering TR.PULSE or TR.TIME), the module starts switching between the different scripts.

There seems to be some other weird behaviour for different keys, but Iā€™m not very familiar with the TT yet, so itā€™s a bit hard to describe.

The keyboard from my computer (Logitech K280e) seems to work fine. However, since it has a German QWERTZ-layout, itā€™s a bit tricky to use (and also does not fit into my little synth-corner, so I have to hold it in my hands all the timeā€¦).

So if someone has maybe experienced the same problems and found a solution or workaround Iā€™d be very happy to hear about it!

#47

I would suggest testing the TT keyboard with a computer to see if it is a defect keyboard

if so email help@monome and I can send another!

#48

ongoing issue w/ tt version 3.0 (as others previously mention) - regardless of keyboard (i have tried a few), they all lose connectivity to tt after about an hour of inactivity and/or sporadically cease to type during a session. itā€™s not a big deal as reconnecting the usb cable eventually solves the issue, but is there a more permanent solution to this?