Use TWO different keyboards as TWO different keyboards?

[Video Beagle]

On my mac, i have a number of cheap usb numpads set up to do different things.

The mac sees each numpad as a seperate device so pressing "5" on one of them is different from pressing "5" on the others or the main keyboard..... this is done using a program called ControllerMate. It's simple and easy.

 

HOW can I do similar on Windows 10?

[adarw]

please make your font darkmode compatible.

[GuiltySpark_]

BTW, the black text you used makes your post difficult to read for those (most?) of us using Dark Mode. Consider maybe changing it back to default? 

 

Anyway, after a few minutes on Google I found this but its not free. Still looking.

 

https://mediachance.com/multikeyboard/

[adarw]

https://alternativeto.net/software/controllermate/?platform=windows

 

[Video Beagle]

36 minutes ago, adarw said:

please make your font darkmode compatible.

 

35 minutes ago, rickeo said:

BTW, the black text you used makes your post difficult to read for those (most?) of us using Dark Mode. Consider maybe changing it back to default? 

 

Anyway, after a few minutes on Google I found this but its not free. Still looking.

 

https://mediachance.com/multikeyboard/

 

Sorry bout the font.. was looking really light on my screen so I thought I had messed up a setting and messed it up worse trying to fix it

 

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Thanks for finding multikeyboard.. I've been googling for a few hours now different things (like the alternativeto link) and didn't find that ...I remember seeing it when I was trying this project a year or two back.

[Video Beagle]

Friend found this with google.. might do the job.

 

https://steveh2112.wixsite.com/multi-keyboard-remap

[whm1974]

Anything for Linux btw? Not that I'm using multiple keyboards or numpads, but I can how this would be useful.

[TetraSky]

42 minutes ago, whm1974 said:

Anything for Linux btw? Not that I'm using multiple keyboards or numpads, but I can how this would be useful.

Probably AutoHotKeys. But it's not super user friendly.

Just look at the video Taran did a few years ago.

[Video Beagle]

On 9/13/2021 at 5:22 PM, whm1974 said:

Anything for Linux btw? Not that I'm using multiple keyboards or numpads, but I can how this would be useful.

Given that the mac (a nix) has actually a couple of programs that can easily do this (controlermate is my choice), I'd think that there should be similar ones for linux out there.  USB devices send a HID id along with the key signal, so this isn't really that huge of a deal, it's just something that needs someone to do it.