Product Overview DDMilli is the second released product of DD series Keyboard. From the name you can see it is DDMicro’s bigger brother, 60% size. It is sharing the mechanical layout with the most popular 60% PCB - GH60, with a lot more optional key positions. This means you can easily fit is in most of GH60 cases and plates.
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Out Looking DDMilli’s layout is based on GH60. The top left corner has a USB Type C connector, that can be connected to a USB 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.1 port. On the left of the USB connecter. ATTENTION: do not connect DDMilli to USB Type C PD charger. Voltage over 5.0V might cause damage on PCB hardware! There is a red LED as charging indicator.
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Battery DDMilli PCB supports to connect a Lithium-ion rechargeable battery. We recommend you to select a battery with build-in safety protection IC. When assemble your keyboard, please pay enough attention on battery protection from the switch pins. Don’t screw too tight with extra pressure on the pins.
Band Key( the second left key in top row ), and turn on power switch. 3. Turn on Bluetooth searching on your host device (smartphone/Laptop/PC). 4. Wait for seconds and a device named as “DD Milli Keyboard” will show up in the list. Select it to connect.
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Customize Your Key Definition DDMilli supports up to eight independent key definitions on every key position. They are organised based on “Definition Layers”. The key definitions for DDMilli can be single key codes ( characters, symbols, function keys, etc ), and also support simple micro key combinations ( modifier keys + a basic key, for example Ctrl + v ).
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The first line is always tagged with “ENCODE”. It describes the keyboard language layout of this configuration. Currently it supports “EN” (US standard layout) and “SV” (Swedish layout). This is marked in red box in the screenshot. The lines in yellow box are backlight configuration. The backlight default mode (with tag “BACKLIGHT_MODE”), backlight color (with tag “BACKLIGHT_COLOR”) and backlight default brightness(with tag “BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS”) can be set separately.
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Download Your Key Configuration After preparing dd_configuration.txt file, you could follow the steps below to download it to your DDMilli keyboard: 1.Connect keyboard with USB cable to computer. 2.Double click ddconf.exe (or ddconf file in Mac OSX) to run the download tool. Or type in the application name in Command Line(or Terminal in Mac OSX) to execute it, but this requires you to browse to the executable file’s folder first.
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Tag List in Configuration File Tag Name Comment Empty key position … do nothing Change layer FN_? replace ‘?’ with 0-7 Stick on layer FN@? replace ‘?’ with 0-7 Reset to default layer FN_X reset to default layer Control CTRL Win/Command Shift key SHIFT...
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Caps Lock CPLK Num Lock NMLK Scroll Lock SCLK Backlight Mode BLM_? replace ‘?’ with 1-9 Backlight Brightness Up BL_UP Increase brightness 1 step Backlight Brightness Down BL_DN Decrease brightness 1 step Backlight Brightness Off BL_OFF Numpad operator replace ‘?’ with + - * / Numpad number replace ‘?’...
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Mouse scroll right MOSSR Mouse move up MOSMU Mouse move down MOSMD Mouse move left MOSML Mouse move right MOSMR Volume Up MMAVUP Volume Down MMAVDN Mute MMAMUT...
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What’s More You Should Know • Because the macro key definitions are supported, so the configuration file is case sensitive. Which means the definition ‘a’ and ‘A’ will give different output. ‘a’ equals press key ‘a’ on ordinary keyboard. And ‘A’ equals press ‘Shift’ and ‘a’ at the same time. •...
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