Remap Key on Specific Keyboard Without Affecting the others
If you buy another keyboard, your old keyboard will not be used. But have you wonder, what if that keyboard can be optimized so we can still use it? How about we remap some of its key into a key that the other keyboard don't have it? Or even more remap it to do automation tool such as auto clicker, screen clicker or files opener. Think about how cool is that and it will boost our productivity more, so why not do that.
One of the case example remap to automation is, You can make the key on our second keyboard to open some programs required if we do some task. For example, if we click '1' on second keyboard, it will open Microsoft Word, Chrome to make a report, '2' will open Steam, Discord to play game, '3' will start or disable auto clicker, and much more.
But the problem if we remap it is, the other keyboard would also got affected. For example, if we remap 'a' to 's' using normal remap, it will also make the 'a' key from other keyboard also remapped into 's'. So what is the solution? That's easy, just make the remap not affecting other keyboard.
There are various ways to do this. But some of it is complicated, such as we need to code it to do that. But don't worry because we have a way to do this easily. It's as easy as choose your desired keyboard to remap and assign the remap. It can't be more easy than that.
We can do this using a software called KeyTik. It's a software with 500+ download, free and open-source. KeyTik is a software powered by powerful automation script called AutoHotkey and a popular programming language called Python.
Here is how to remap on specific keyboard using KeyTik.
- First, download KeyTik and install required tool it need to remap on specific keyboard (AutoHotkey and Interception Driver). You can visit KeyTik installation guide here for how to do it.
- Open KeyTik and click 'Create New Profile' button to start remapping.
- Customize your remap and click 'Select Device' button.
- Choose your keyboard. If you don't know which one is your keyboard ID, you can click 'Open AHI Monitor to Test Device' button to find out which one your keyboard ID. Then click 'Select' button to select the keyboard.
- Click 'Finish' button to complete remap customization.
- You can then click 'Run' button on the block which with your previous remap customization name, to activate your remap. Or you can try out different feature from keytik to manage your remap customization.
It's easy right? KeyTik also has another feature which can be useful to customize your keyboard or mouse. You can explore KeyTik more on it's website in KeyTik.com. We hope this can be useful for you. Thank you for Reading this!