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BLACKWIDOW V3 PRO switching

  • November 4, 2020
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So my Blackwidow v3 pro arrived this morning. Beautiful keyboard! The reason I was after this is my mechanical cherry was starting to show its age but also due to COVID I am working from home a lot. So my setup is such that I have a HDMI switch so that my desktop can use the monitor and my work laptop can be dual screen. I have a Atheris mouse for work and a Lancehead for my desktop. The keyboard... I had two keyboard, one wired to both, and thus there is the annoyance of physically switching over (or more often... typing on teh wrong keyboard). Having a single keyboard that can switch between was perfect. Ideal case: work machine (win10) connected via BT and desktop
    pancholr
    FiszPL
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    • FiszPL
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    • November 5, 2020
    The great thing with this keyboard is that you can use it on 3 different BT devices, and then you just switch between them. I'm curious how the battery life would be (with Chroma enabled). Please test it, and let us know :)
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    • Sye_The-Vie
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    • November 5, 2020
    FiszPL
    The great thing with this keyboard is that you can use it on 3 different BT devices, and then you just switch between them. I'm curious how the battery life would be (with Chroma enabled). Please test it, and let us know :)
    Which is why I still wired products, no need to worry about battery life :smile_::smile_: The battery life span also decays, which is troublesome :mad_::mad_:
    Sye_The-Vie^^
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    Ok so a couple of days using it and loving this keyboard. There are a couple of problems and I would consider one a bug/flaw and the other possibly windows. As stated, my use-case is 1) windows work laptop 2) Gentoo-linux personal desktop. I presently do not have bluetooth for my desktop (dongle due this weekend) so it was a matter of wired/2.4G for desktop and bluetooth for laptop using the manual switch on the side to switch from 2.4 to BT (Desktop to Laptop) was a stopgap. Downside is windows struggles when it is switched back to BT (it lists the kb as paired but won't reconnect...). Using BT for laptop and wired for desktop exposes a flaw... a WIRED connection with the machine booted always dominates no matter what position the switch. The switch is a 3 position switch and the manual explicitly states that if you want to use a wired keyboard the leaded flaw I would say is a definite flaw and hopefully it is a firmware fix and not an issue with the general hardware. The switching between... well it would appear more for BT only, which is fine as I said I have a dongle due this weekend and then the switching will be good but this does highlight something that appears a flaw (oh and openRazer hasn't been updated to support this kb and chroma :) )
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    ok Amazon delivered the dongle earlier than expected and as a gentoo user, a simple rebuild to enable bluetooth, reboot, login using wired and then start the bluetooth process. flawless \\o/. I can now easily switch between them both with a single keyboard and I guess this was the intended use-case. This leaves the instance when it needs to charge AND I want to use the keyboard. .This is stated as a valid use-case BUT the subtle point is that if you use a computer to charge, this wired connection will dominate - I might just use a usb charger to mitigate this very nice and clicky :)
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