[Feature Request] Reboot from Agent

[treedy]

Is it possible to have a "Reboot Keyboard" button within the UHK Agent software? Sometimes (and this is rare) the keyboard gets in a weird state and I want to reboot it without unplugging the USB cable. This might be a benefit for those that have limited motor abilities / dexterity.

[kareltucek]

For convenience, you can bind a reboot macro wherever you like, which should work most of the time.

Admittedly, we should probably add it into the default configuration...

[treedy]

If I need to reboot the keyboard, most of the time it's because it isn't responding to key presses, so a macro isn't useful. However, I've noticed that it's still recognized by UHK Agent which I can still get to with my mouse.

[kareltucek]

Hmmm. I can't talk for Laszlo and UI, but... Can we try to nail down the actual cause?

Is that a uhk60 or uhk80?

What is the firmware version (as shown by Agent)?

Does the oled display / layer indicators react to changing layers? Can you control the cursor using UHK?

If the main loop is stuck, after a 30 or so seconds in Agent, you should get a 'Looks like the firmware freezed. If that is the case, please report bellow trace to the devs:' message with some further debug trace. Are you getting it? If yes, please would you paste the log here?

(These two tell us whether the main loop is still alive and whether it is a single-interface usb-stack failure.)

[treedy]

I'll reiterate that this rarely happens. Maybe once every few months spanning different firmware versions. Almost every time it's been a different component (sometimes the left half, sometimes a module, sometimes the entire keyboard) and I have never been able to reproduce the different issues.

To answer your questions:
The last time this happened was 2 days ago. The trackball module on my UHK60 on firmware 17.0.0 wouldn't respond after the PC was wakened from standby. Reseating the module didn't help. All other keys, LED changes, and functionality still worked. I had Agent running for several minutes and never saw the "Looks like the firmware freezed" message. I disconnected the USB cable and reconnected. No problems since.