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凯酷 Y98 keyboard software

Remap keys, set the RGB, record macros and change device settings on the 凯酷 Y98. 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 Y98 ship under this name. They are on 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 Y98

  • 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. 3 onboard profiles.
  • 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.
  • Debounce. Adjustable, 1 to 10, on the revisions that have it (device 3179).
  • Sleep timers for 2.4 GHz on some revisions and Bluetooth on some revisions, plus deep sleep.
  • Backup. Export everything to a file and restore it later.

sharkfin draws the Y98 key by key, so you remap on a picture of your own board.

Y98 at a glance

Brand凯酷
ModelY98
USB ID3151:5002
Device ID2922, 2983, 3179
Protocol familygen2
Settings writableyes
Drawn layoutyes
Onboard profiles3

Connecting

Plug the Y98 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.

Y98 revisions

Device IDUSB IDControllerFamily WritableLayout
29223151:5002yc3123_kk_y98_3m_1k_rgb_kb_socgen2yesdrawn
29833151:5002yc3123_kk_y98_1m_1k_rgb_kb_socgen2yesdrawn
31793151:5002yc3123_kk_y98b_3m_1kgen2yesdrawn

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