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Review on πŸ–₯️ HUION Mini KeyDial KD100 - Wireless Express Key Remote Control Keyboard with Dial, 18 Customizable Express Keys - Suitable for Graphics Drawing Tablet, PC, Mac, Laptop, Surface Pro by Dan Santos

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Stay away. Much better options in this price range

As an illustrator and animator I bought this hoping to replace the need for a keyboard next to/behind my 22 inch graphics tablet. Unfortunately, this fact surprised me. that this keyset does not support multiple keystrokes. So if you want "Alt+Z" you need to assign an entire key for it, not just the Alt key and other letter keys you might need. This is extremely unintuitive and forces you to have many combinations and makes this limit useless as there will never be enough buttons this way (as I still have to assign ctrl, alt and shift buttons myself). Huion support has expressed this hardware limitation so it will never be fixed. So now I need to have both this button set and the keyboard next to the tablet if I want to use it. A complete defeat of the purpose of this purchase. There are a few options in this price range that can do multiple keystrokes at once. I recommend anyone delving into this to stay away and just use a game/macropad (I've seen a lot of artists do this). One way to fix this is to allow you to create multiple pages for each program and switch between them with a watch face. The driver software is clunky but works. What does NOT work are the drivers. Keys tend to stay pressed even though I physically release them. Program profiles tend to turn themselves on, forcing me to open the keyset program to deselect and reselect the program to update it. enjoy using it every day, I am EXTREMELY disappointed with this accessory. Useless to me and I will throw this money in the trash and have to buy another option again.

Pros
  • Hands free operation
Cons
  • Operating speed