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Peripheral Update

Introduction​

SliceMK releases a new peripheral firmware approximately twice a year consisting of bug fixes and/or new features. While these are generally optional, users wish to upgrade to take advantage of the latest improvements.

Important firmware updates will be announced via the SliceMK Discord. If you would like to be notified, be sure to join server and leave notifications on!

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These are instructions specifically for updating your keyboard peripheral(s). If you are only looking to modify your keymap, please use the keymap configurator and flash your keyboard central instead.

Before You Begin​

Before you begin, please download the peripheral firmware for your keyboard:

Upgrade Instructions with Dongle​

In a dongle setup, the two keyboard halves are peripherals. Please follow these instructions to update the peripheral firmware running on the two halves:

  1. Unplug the dongle.
  2. Start by flashing the left half.
    1. Plug in left half.
    2. Put it in bootloader mode by pressing reset twice in 500ms. LED should be green.
    3. Copy peripheral-left.uf2 to left half. LED will be red while it's in progress.
    4. Once complete, LED will turn off.
    5. Unplug left half.
    6. Press reset once to reboot.
  3. Continue by flashing the right half. Please repeat the steps from the previous section accordingly.
  4. Plug in dongle.
  5. Press a few keys on both halves. Give it around 10 seconds for dongle to connect.

Upgrade Instructions without Dongle​

In a dongleless setup, the left half is the central and the right half is a peripheral. Please follow these instructions to update the peripheral firmware running on the right half:

  1. Turn the left half (central) off by pressing the user button once.
  2. Start by flashing the right half.
    1. Plug in right half.
    2. Put it in bootloader mode by pressing reset twice in 500ms. LED should be green.
    3. Copy peripheral-right.uf2 to right half. LED will be red while it's in progress.
    4. Once complete, LED will turn off.
    5. Unplug right half.
    6. Press reset once to reboot.
  3. Press reset once on left half to reboot.
  4. Press a few keys on both halves. Give it around 10 seconds for everything to connect.