how to disable keyboard backlight with unknown keys?

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milkygirl90
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how to disable keyboard backlight with unknown keys?

Post by milkygirl90 » 14 Jun 2021, 19:35

It's a key in between RAlt and Appskey, which is used to adjust the keyboard backlight. This is not reflected in Key viewer.

What should I do in order to auto-disable the backlight completely and automatically?

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Mouaz
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Re: how to disable keyboard backlight with unknown keys?

Post by Mouaz » 15 Jun 2021, 06:23

i don't know
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DavidP
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Re: how to disable keyboard backlight with unknown keys?

Post by DavidP » 15 Jun 2021, 09:21

I believe that you can't remap or send keys that are not visible to the AHK key viewer.

If I shouldn't be correct, I'd be very interested in this as well, because this would help making those annoying hardware-specific keys doing useful stuff.
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Re: how to disable keyboard backlight with unknown keys?

Post by boiler » 15 Jun 2021, 12:27

It could be that it's all handled at the keyboard hardware level, which would make it impossible for Windows or AHK to act on it because nothing even reaches the OS when they are pressed. If there is some sort of software for the keyboard that allows for configuring those keys, then it actually is reaching the OS in some way, so you would have a chance of being able to act on them.
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Re: how to disable keyboard backlight with unknown keys?

Post by swagfag » 15 Jun 2021, 16:50

depending on the keyboard's microcontroller(eg teensy) u may be able to send it some usb packets and control it that way(eg usb2serial)
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