What is it?

Have you ever heard "You are on mute!"? And then hastily searched the keyboard combination or fiddled around with the mouse.

With this single button keyboard unmuting is only one keystroke away.

There are many shortcuts preinstalled which can be easily configured. It is also possible to setup your own custom shortcuts.

At last it is possible to let the button type a character string.

Why did you make it?

I've heard "You are on mute!" too often.

What makes it special?

Easy configuration and custom shortcuts

Documentation

It is for Windows and Mac

Windows and MacOS

The following key combinations can be configured by default (for custom shortcuts look down):

Windows Teams (Ctrl+Shift+M) Mac Teams (Cmd+Shift+M)

Windows Zoom (Alt+A) Mac Zoom (Cmd+Shift+A)

Windows Skype/Webex (Ctrl+M) Mac Skype Webex (Cmd+Shift+M)

Windows GoogleMeet (Ctrl+D) Mac GoogleMeet (Cmd+D)

Windows/Mac Jitsi (M)

Windows BigBlueButton (Alt+Shift+M) Mac BigBlueButton (Ctrl+Option+M)

Windows Lock Screen (Win+L) Mac Lock Screen (Ctrl+Cmd+Q)

Change Configuration

• open a texteditor like notepad
• long touch the touch field (the LED is blinking blue)
• press the key until your desired config is printed
• long touch the touch field to save

Use a custom shortcut

It is possible to use a custom shortcut, which is not one of the default shortcuts

For changing the shortcut into a custom shortcut you need to follow these steps:

• Press and hold down the button and press the reset button (small button on the back) OR remove the button from USB, press and hold down the button and put it back into USB.

• A disk with the name CIRCUITPY will appear in you file explorer

• Open the disk

• Rename the file "custom-off.keys" to "custom.keys"

• Open the file "custom.keys" in a text-editor (e.g. Notepad on windows) and change the text to your wanted Keycodes e.g. "(Keycode.CONTROL, Keycode.ALT, Keycode.SHIFT, Keycode.M)" A list of keyboard keycodes can be found here: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_HID/blob/main/adafruit_hid/keycode.py

• Press the reset button again OR remove and put it in again

Typing a custom string

It is possible to let the button a custom string. It can be used to type in a password, but because of security issues I will not recommend it.

• Press and hold down the button and press the reset button (small button on the back) OR remove the button from USB, press and hold down the button and put it back into USB.

• A disk with the name CIRCUITPY will appear in you file explorer

• Open the disk

• Rename the file "custom-off.password" to "custom.password"

• Open the file "custom.password" in a text-editor (e.g. Notepad on windows) and change the text to your wanted string. But be aware, the button uses US keyboard layout. If you have by default another keyboard layout, e.g. german, then some charactors are on other keys. A simple example is that on german keyboards y and z are swapped. If you want the button to type a z with german keyboard layout you have to use the character y. And so there are many more charactors on different keys.

• Press the reset button again OR remove and put it in again