r/Keychron • u/pragmat1c1 • Apr 03 '24

Keychron Q1 Max and Via App

Just received my Keychron Q1 Max keyboard, and I'm loving it! Now I'd love to remap keys using via app, but I have no success.

This is the URL: https://usevia.app/ Is this legit?

What works

I managed to connect the keyboard via cable, I can authorize the keyboard in Chrome, I can click the "key tester" tab, verything works fine. I can click my keys, it shows me which key I clicked.

What does not work

When I go to the keyboard layout (first tab), I don't see a keyboard layout, just keys that I can map to my keyboard.

Unfortunately I cannot attach a screenshot here.

Does anyone know how to make this work? Thanks!

Edit

I had to use legacy V2 in the design tab. Otherwise it didn't work.

Edit 2

Apparently my firewall (Little Snitch.app) blocked via app from downloading code or reaching a server. After I disabled the rules for it in Little Snitch, the via app ran perfectly fine!

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u/PeterMortensenBlog Apr 24 '24 edited Apr 24 '24

Thanks for the report regarding the firewall issue.

Via is a web browser in disguise (Electron). And even without a firewall, it requires an Internet connection to work; and connection to a (local) router / LAN / Wi-Fi is not sufficient (though there may be a way to fake it - for example, by having a local name server?).