$ sctool
Usage: sctool command [command options...]

  Options:
    -h                   Show this message.

  Commands:
     boot                Cause the device to reboot to bootloader
     info                Get device info
     listen              Listen for keypresses
     read <output file>  Read the current config from EEPROM
     write <input file>  Write the given file to EEPROM

$ scas <input file> <output file>

$ scdis <input file> <output file>

sctool is a replacement for the original Soarer's converter tools. I've also included versions of the original scas and scdis with some minor improvements.

I've included the original documentation, but it can be dramatically simplified. See below for instructions on how to use sctool to update your converter's configuration.

The original example configurations can be found in the configs directory.

• autoconf / automake / libtool
• hidapi

The bundled version of hidapi will be built if hidapi is not present.

See the LICENSE file for details. The bundled hidapi is distributed under its included BSD license.

Building sctools is as simple as:

$ ./autogen.sh && make && make install

Note that you can pass arguments to configure via autogen.sh. for example:

$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

On Linux, udev rules for the converter will also be installed in $(sysconfdir)/udev/rules.d which will give cause the converter to be owned by the input group, with permissions of 0660. Thus, you may want to pass --sysconfdir=/etc to configure.

The listen command will output data in the following format, with the keysym used by scas between parenthesis.

rF0 r5A -28 (ENTER) u28

To update the configuration, just do the following:

$ scas my_config.sc my_config.bin
scas v1.10
No errors. Wrote: my_config.bin

$ sctool write my_config.bin
Soarer's Converter Tool v1.0

---- Write (54 bytes) ----
Device ready
54 / 54 bytes written
Transfer complete

Now, the new configuration should be applied.

• For some reason, the hidraw variant of hidapi doesn't enumerate the device corresponding to the interface that the listen command uses.

• scdis may be buggy with handling some macro blocks.