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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
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 🙂
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_:
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 🙂 )
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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