{"id":1760,"date":"2015-07-18T18:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T17:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2015-07-18T18:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T17:45:58","slug":"tipro-mid-keybaod-pinouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/tipro-mid-keybaod-pinouts.php","title":{"rendered":"Tipro MID Keybaod Pinouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/files\/2015\/07\/tipro_pinouts_diagram.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/files\/2015\/07\/tipro_pinouts_diagram-300x225.png\" alt=\"Tipro MID Keyboard Pinouts (Diagram)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/files\/2015\/07\/tipro_pinouts_diagram-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/files\/2015\/07\/tipro_pinouts_diagram.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Over time I have ended up with a couple of customisable Tipro MID keyboards without the custom lead to connect them to a PS2 port. These leads are no longer available for sale so I decided to figure out the pinouts. This is a quick summery of that work.<\/p>\n<p>As the keyboards have a pass-though port for other PS2 devices and were unlikely to have a common ground and 5V line I could use a multimeter to check what was the &#8220;Gnd&#8221; and &#8220;Vcc&#8221; easily. This worked and I had those figured out after a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Now I had the power sorted I just had the clock and the data pins to figure out. I realised that there were only 30 possible combinations and the keyboard were already programmed so would behave like, well, a keyboard when a button was pressed. Rather than mess bout I decided to just try all combinations and to wee what one worked. There was a remote change this could damage the hardware but that was very very unlikely and I had little to loose. As luck would have it it worked on the 3rd attempt.<\/p>\n<p>So now we have the results. The layout is not dissimilar to that of a a PS2 connector albeit mirrored. Hopefully this will be of use to at least someone and save some hardware from the skip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/files\/2015\/07\/tipro_pinouts_photo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/files\/2015\/07\/tipro_pinouts_photo.png\" alt=\"Tipro MID Keyboard Pinouts (Photograph)\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/files\/2015\/07\/tipro_pinouts_photo.png 640w, https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/files\/2015\/07\/tipro_pinouts_photo-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My next challenge is to reconfigure them. The configuration utilities (MIDWIN and MIDDOS) are still available from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tipro.net\/ecatalogue\/archive-drivers\/\">Tipro drivers archive<\/a> although it is recommended you use Windows 95, 98 or 2000. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over time I have ended up with a couple of customisable Tipro MID keyboards without the custom lead to connect them to a PS2 port. These leads are no longer available for sale so I decided to figure out the pinouts. This is a quick summery of that work. As the keyboards have a pass-though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t60H-so","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}