open-deck fork for ajazz devices only

[gorillamoe]

Hey there and thanks for the great work on this project. I created a hard-fork off it and tried to just implement ajazz device support out of the box (again). Works for my device, but I would like to have some Ajazz users with different devices and/or revisions to try it out, so I can be sure that it works not only on my device.

I tried to make it as clear as possible that the fork is solely based off this project. I also added a sponsor link to the project's website that leads to @nekename gh sponsor page.

Maybe some ajazz users can give it a whirl. I only plan on supporting linux. If you're on windows / mac, you can just stay with the official ajazz software 🙈

• Repository: https://github.com/mistweaverco/opendeck-ajazz
• Website: https://opendeck.mwco.app

[nekename]

Uhhhhhhhhhh I don't think we really need this, because there are already plugins for OpenDeck that add support for Ajazz and Mirabox devices - the plugins are so much more reliable than the support in the elgato-streamdeck crate ever was, without the serial number bugs and other bugs, as well as supporting many more devices and making it easier to add support for new ones.

https://github.com/4ndv/opendeck-akp153
https://github.com/4ndv/opendeck-akp03

Those are the two, which you can find in the OpenDeck plugin store, by the main dev of the new mirajazz Rust library for these plugins, and there are more forks for other devices.

[nekename]

Looking at your project it looks like it was a lot of work! You should have asked us about this before diving into it 😭

Here's the mirajazz crate, which is similar to your ajazz-sdk fork, but with huge improvements like using async-hid and dynamically adding device types, as well as support for device generations: https://crates.io/crates/mirajazz

That crate and the two OpenDeck plugins for device support are maintained by @4ndv

[gorillamoe]

Ye, no worries, actually I just wanted something to work with my specifc ajazz device on linux, so even if I'm the only one using it, it'll be fine :)

[nekename]

Well, the reason the plugins are preferable is because it doesn't need the whole of OpenDeck to be forked :)

It's very easy to add support for new devices to the plugins or to fork a plugin for your device if you do want to do that, by the way.

Also curious why you didn't make a proper fork? It's hard to find your changes because you just pulled everything in in one commit