Video: Attempting to Control Elgato Keylights from Nerves

Underjord is an artisanal consultancy doing consulting in Elixir, Nerves with an accidental speciality in marketing and outreach. If you like the writing you should really try the pro version.

This livestream we tried to control my Elgato Keylights from a Nerves device. We really tried gang, come on. A good attempt.

We ran into an issue with the expectations we had on what mDNS would give us. Those issues are still under investigation but they seem to be a change or regression in underlying parts of Nerves or Erlang. I’ve since gotten it to work by going back a few versions.

Those frustrations aside we also verified that we can control the lights and detect the keypresses for the keypad we are using. The Keybow 12-key thing with RGB lighting.

Underjord is an artisanal consultancy doing consulting in Elixir, Nerves with an accidental speciality in marketing and outreach. If you like the writing you should really try the pro version.

Note: Or try the videos on the YouTube channel.