Is mirroring the status LED onto an illuminated button possible?

ProffieOS
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I recently gutted a cheap baselit TXQ saber (with an illuminated button) and threw a Proffie 3.9 board inside, and I was curious if it’s currently possible to mirror the status LED onto the button instead of setting it up as a blade? If not possible through software, how catastrophic would it be if I wired the button LED directly to the same pads as the status LED on the PCB? Thanks.

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It’s absolutely possible to do through software.

The code that controls the status led can be found here:

If you “borrow” this code and make it into a Function, then you can use it in a style and do whatever you want with it.

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I’m not too software savvy but I’m assuming this means I’d have maintain a fork of the OS locally, and there’s no way to do this with the current release? I’ll try messing around with that and see if I can get it to work. Thanks for the quick reply, btw.

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You can keep your new function in the config file, so there is no need for an actual fork.
If you don’t want to do that either, you can create a PR for the new function, I can then include it in ProffieOS, which would mean that I would maintain it, and everybody could use it.

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And would this mean it would work on 2.2 boards, even though they don’t have an LED on the board itself?

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You would need some ifdefs or something for the charging code, but other than that it could work just fine on a v2 board.

You might want to build something better that uses different colors tough.
(Maybe start with some variety of ChargingStyle.)