This is a simple and fairly crude tool for turning a Blackmagic Design Speed Editor into a macro pad on X. Each key of the macro pad is mapped to a function key with Alt and Meta and sometimes Shift pressed. The jog wheel is mapped to the mouse scroll wheel buttons.
This only works if DaVinci Resolve isn't open.
It uses smunaut's algorithm for unlocking the device. Without this, the device is a paperweight unless you have Resolve running.
I found having a nice piece of hardware which was locked down to only work with one particular application offensive.
Build it with make. You'll need libfakekey, hidapi-libusb and fmt. Then
just run the bmdkey application with the keyboard connected up.
There are no configuration options. Also, if you unplug the Speed Editor, it'll crash.
You should be able to use this on other BMD hardware, but I haven't tried. If anyone wants to send me some incredibly expensive keyboards for free, I'll quite happily do a port!
You may contact me at dg@cowlark.com, or visit my website at http://www.cowlark.com. There may or may not be anything interesting there.
Everything here is © 2024 David Given, and is licensed under the two-clause BSD open source license. Please see LICENSE for the full text. The tl;dr is: you can do what you like with it provided you don't claim you wrote it.