board-update

It's inevitable that you will eventually need to update your board when peg updates. Let's make it easy to get you up and running on the latest and greatest software! Peg is built to keep you as up to date as it can. You should be able to have it auto update for you in most cases. When things change too far, you may need to give it a hand to get all of the latest code.

Getting the latest firmware

The first step in getting up to date is to get your device into the bootloader. This will be different for every device, but the board specific docs cover it. Normally it's either flipping a switch or holding the boot button, not to be confused with the reset button. Guides for getting into bootloader mode can be found below for several devices.

• Blok
• Lulu

Confirming you are in bootloader

Most computers should show you a flash drive appear. It will be named "RPI-RP2". If it is named something else, you aren't in the bootloader unless your device specific docs tells you it's named something else. Windows and Mac this will show up as any flash drive. Some distrobutions of Linux may require you to mount it manually, but the most popular distros should work out of the box.

Getting the latest bs-python

If your device is supported by bs-python, you will want to download the latest release for your device HERE. If you don't see your device listed there, you will need the latest release of Circuitpython. That can be found HERE. If you aren't sure which version to download, make sure the device name matches. If you aren't sure, you won't harm anything if you accidentally get the wrong one and can always try again, or ask support. If there's multiple matches for your device, such as boardsouce_lulu.uf2 and boardsouce_lulu_full.uf2, they will both work for the listed device though the "full" version also contains all of KMK. When updating, we recommend trying the not "full" version first, or if flashing a new device, or that causes any issues, use the "full" version if avaliable. There are no "full" verisons for Circuitpython, only bs-python.

Flashing the file

All you have to do in most cases is to drop the uf2 file onto the RPI-RP2 "flash drive" that we found earlier. That's all there is to it!

Confirming that it worked

The device should automatically reboot, and the "flash drive" should be gone. In many cases, it should be ready to type. If it's not typing, we have some troubleshooting steps below.

Troubleshooting

It's not working on Mac

There may still be a bug in Mac's "Finder" that casuse it to hang or not copy. You'll need to copy it to /Volumes/RPI-RP2 with a terminal. This is not a bug with any keyboard software, but a bug in Mac itself. Apple's documentation on how to do this can be found HERE.

It's not typing and I have a split keyboard

Split keyboards are 2 seperate devices pretending to be one keyboard. Each side has it's own "brain". Just repeat the steps for the other side and you should be back up and running.

I still can't type and I've read everything above.

Make sure you have the latest version of peg and restart the program after you update. That can help in some cases. If that fails, you can back up the files on the "flash drive", but this one will be named more similar to your keyboard and not named "RPI-RP2". For a corne, it could be "CRKBDL" or "CRKBDR", or Lulu could be "LULUL" or "LULUR". If it's a split keyboard, remember to back up both sides if you wish to do so. After your optional backup, delete all files on all parts of a keyboard. Make sure to empty the trash. Once you open peg, it should see it as a brand new keyboard and get you going again.

None of the advice has worked and I still can't type!

Fear not! Reach out to us in our Discord and we'll do what we can to get you up and running!