Amazing Hardware with TERRIBLE Software
It would be difficult to explain how bad the software is that supports the HV-KB395L keyboard I recently purchased. I'm going to try. First off the look. It looks like someone explained a modern UI to a programmer who had never seen one, and they proceeded to create how they interpreted the explanation. It's locked to one size, it randomly uses 3d buttons on a flat aesthetic, and if you figure out how to use parts, it often uses ancient windows elements, like the color picker that seems to be from the original mspaint. Mapping custom key actions is nearly impossible, or maybe impossible, I can't figure it out. You can double click on any key to assign custom actions, and create key combinations.... but in trying to set ctrl+up to volume up (because apparently the function key can't be used for custom hotkeys), after 15 minutes I gave up. The LED management is basic, buggy, and fraught with limitations. The default colour choices, for which there are 8, can not be added to, merely replaced. You cannot mix user customized and effects, nor can you create hybrid effects (IE you cannot have statically lit keys that also then have a ripple effect). The feature set of the LED management compares poorly to any of the big brands. The hardware seems pretty great, but this software, which didn't even earn a name from the manufacturer, instead just being called "HV-KB395L" (the Keyboard's model number), would make me NOT recommend this to anyone looking for advanced functionality.