Glove80 USB Dongle

...back to Input Devices overview For about three years, since September 2023, my daily-driver keyboard has been the Glove80. It has always worked great, with the only downside being the battery life of the left half, which is much shorter due to it being the BLE central, the right half only operating as BLE peripheral. The manufacturer often mentioned it is possible to use a dongle to avoid that problem. But many people struggle to get that working. So here is how I did it and how you can replicate it. Quick Start You need to buy an nRF52840 Dongle, aka. PCA10059, from Nordic. You can check their website for distributors. Other dongles or microcontroller boards can work as well, but then you need to make your own config. Download the latest pre-built binaries from my GitHub releases. Release builds for glove80-dongle are available on GitHub. Latest release of glove80-dongle: Custom ZMK with USB HID multi-battery reporting (2026-07-24 13:34:13) (at the time of this writing) Release…