HotMap

Hotmap is an intuitive desktop app designed to take advantage of the QMK Programmable Button keycodes, allowing for on-the-fly updating of keybindings without having to recompile or deploy firmware.

Features

• 32 Unique Programmable Buttons
• 5 Unique macro actions
  • Tap
  • Press
  • Release
  • Print
  • Delay
• Easy to navigate UI
• Windows and Linux Support
  • OsX support planned

Usage

1. Install the latest release for your platform in the Releases page

[!WARNING]
Linux users will have to make sure to run Hotmap with elevated privileges for the backend to run properly

2. Add Programmable Button to your QMK firmware

• Buttons must be a range starting at 1, without skipping any

3. Add buttons to match your keyboard
4. Configure the macro for each button

Building

Requirements

• Rust and Cargo
• Node.js and NPM

1. Clone the latest version of the repository from https://www.github.com/GearBoxFox/HotMap.git
2. Run npm install
3. Download the tauri cli tool cargo install tauri-cli
4. Run the development build cargo tauri dev
5. Run the production build cargo tauri build

• On linux set the environment variable NO_STRIP=true to build the AppImage properly