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Das Keyboard Q Software Documentation

 

Warning: the Q software is in very early stage. It’s buggy, incomplete, and poorly documented. However it is improving quickly. Only use it if you are comfortable being a beta software and contributing useful feedback.

Q Desktop Software Installation

Download and install Q clients software

Q clients can be downloaded from the Q website: https://www.daskeyboard.com/technology/q-software/

Create a Das Keyboard Q account

In order to use the Q client, you’ll need to create an account at https://q2.daskeyboard.com/

Sending Signals to your 5Q keyboard + developer API

A bit of lingo first: a signal is a message that contains color information (and more) to be displayed on a 5Q keyboard. All 3rd party platforms communicate with the Q clients by sending signals very much like your friends send text messages to your phone. Instead of being a text message, a signal contains also key color information.

Even without a real Q device, you can play with Signals. Signals will be displayed on the Q desktop “dashboard mode” and the Q Android app.

There are several possibilities to send signals to the 5Q keyboard:

  • Zapier: use Zapier clould platform to create zaps. Select the Action called “Das Keyboard Q”. Zapier will create signals based on triggers such as emails, Facebook events, even new Youtube videos and much more. The app is currently working with invitations only, here is the link to access it:

https://zapier.com/developer/invite/52454/1adf69b9a21dcfa16a1953d99baf253e/.

  • You can also create your own script with the Q API.

Q Developer API

The developer Q API is an easy to use JSON REST API to send signals to the Q device.