ABKO CJ87 keyboard software
sharkfin identifies and reads the ABKO CJ87. Free and open source. Use it in a Chromium browser with nothing to install, or download the desktop app for Windows, macOS or Linux. Either way it runs entirely on your own machine: no account, and the browser version makes no network requests once the page has loaded.
What sharkfin does with the CJ87
- sharkfin will identify this board and read its settings, but it will not write to it. Its command set is not established, and the two protocol families in this hardware share opcodes that mean different things, so a misaddressed write would land on a live register.
- You can help: the app's Contribute tab collects a read-only data bundle to paste into an issue. That is how a board moves from read-only to supported.
sharkfin draws the CJ87 key by key, so you remap on a picture of your own board.
CJ87 at a glance
| Brand | ABKO |
| Model | CJ87 |
| USB ID | 3151:4015 |
| Device ID | 3227 |
| Protocol family | unknown |
| Settings writable | no, read-only |
| Drawn layout | yes |
| Onboard profiles | 2 |
Connecting
Plug the CJ87 in with a USB cable. There is no configuration channel over 2.4 GHz or Bluetooth on this hardware, so a receiver or a Bluetooth pairing will not do. Settings are stored on the keyboard itself, so everything you change keeps working wirelessly once you unplug. sharkfin never flashes firmware, so there is nothing here that can brick the board. On Linux, both the browser and the app need a one-line udev rule before they can open the keyboard.