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AttackShark K85 keyboard software

Remap keys, set the RGB, record macros and change device settings on the AttackShark K85. 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.

3 revisions of the K85 ship under this name. They are on different protocol families and different controllers, so they are genuinely different hardware and not just a firmware bump. sharkfin does not ask you which one you have: the board reports its own device ID when it is plugged in, and the right command set follows from that.

What sharkfin does with the K85

  • Remap any key. Click a key on a picture of the board and give it another key, a mouse button, cursor movement, the scroll wheel, a macro or a media control. Base and Fn layers both. 2 or 3 onboard profiles, by revision.
  • Lighting. 18 backlight effects with direction options, full RGB colour, brightness and speed, changing live as you drag.
  • Per-key colour. Paint individual keys and send the pattern to the board's flash.
  • Macros. Record key and mouse sequences with per-event delays into the 50 onboard slots, then bind a key to one.
  • The knob. Only some revisions of this model have one (device 3334). Where it exists, turn left, turn right and press are all remappable.
  • Backup. Export everything to a file and restore it later.
  • Magnetic switches. This board has them. sharkfin does not configure actuation or rapid trigger: the firmware does not answer those commands. Everything else on this page still works.

sharkfin draws the K85 key by key, so you remap on a picture of your own board.

K85 at a glance

BrandAttackShark
ModelK85
USB ID3151:502d
Device ID1466, 2552, 3334
Protocol familygen2, yc500
Settings writableyes
Drawn layoutyes
Onboard profiles2 or 3

Connecting

Plug the K85 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.

K85 revisions

Device IDUSB IDControllerFamily WritableLayout
14663151:502dyc3121_sg8948_dm_hallyc500yesdrawn
25523151:502dry5088_sg_sg8948g_1m_8kgen2yesdrawn
33343151:502dry5088_sg_sg8948n_1m_8kgen2yesdrawn

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