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# Dactyl Wired/Wireless

Your keyboard is ready to go! You can use it straight away.

Select the type of dactyl you have to learn how to use your keyboard.

<details>

<summary>Wired Dactyl </summary>

Your keyboard is ready to go! You can use it straight away.

### Connecting:

Connect the USB-C interconnect cable to the left most
\
socket of each half. Then connect your data cable to the
\
vacant socket on the left half.

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### Changing Keymap:

Use the [vial.rocks](https://vial.rocks) website to change your keymap layout.

### RGB:

With [vial.rocks](https://vial.rocks), you can change the RGB colour and mode

</details>

<details>

<summary>Wireless Dactyl</summary>

Your keyboard is ready to go! You can use it straight away.

### Connecting:

Turn on the halves with tweezers or anything pointy and move the power switch to the on position (when looking at the keyboard, move the switch to the left position) - a blue light should illuminate. The default RGB should also turn on.

Find "cosmotyl" in bluetooth devices.

### Default Layout

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### Important Key Combos:

Hold the button below C + any of the below keys:\
ESC - Studio Unlock for ZMK\
CTRL - RGB Toggle\
1 - Bluetooth Profile 1\
2 - Bluetooth Profile 2\
3 - Bluetooth Profile 3\
5 - Clear Selected Profile\
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Q - Underglow Hue Up\
A - Underglow Hue Down\
E - Underglow Saturation Up\
D - Underglow Saturation Down\
T - Next Effect\
G - Previous Effect

### Changing Keymap:

Check out our [Using ZMK Studio](/guides/other-guides/using-zmk-studio.md) Guide

</details>

## Any Issues?

Please don't hesitate to get in contact - We'll be more than happy to help! -&#x20;

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