Cannot get nice!view to work after recent update

[ghostbuster91]

Hi,

I have a custom keyboard with a self made shield - https://github.com/ghostbuster91/Dilemma3x6_3-zmk This is a split keyboard equipped with nice!nanos & nice!views. More about the keyboard here.

Today I updated the firmware in the left half (master). Previous firmware version was from almost a year ago. I am using a fork of zmk which is fairly up-to-date: https://github.com/nickconway/zmk/

The keyboard used to work well so far with both displays.

The update didn't go smoothly as first the build failed with following errors:

/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.3/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-zephyr-eabi/12.2.0/../../../../arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/ld.bfd: zephyr/libzephyr.a(status.c.obj):/__w/Dilemma3x6_3-zmk/Dilemma3x6_3-zmk/zmk/app/boards/shields/nice_view/widgets/status.c:284: multiple definition of `widget_layer_status_mutex'; app/libapp.a(layer_status.c.obj):/__w/Dilemma3x6_3-zmk/Dilemma3x6_3-zmk/zmk/app/src/display/widgets/layer_status.c:51: first defined here
/opt/zephyr-sdk-0.16.3/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-zephyr-eabi/12.2.0/../../../../arm-zephyr-eabi/bin/ld.bfd: zephyr/libzephyr.a(status.c.obj):/__w/Dilemma3x6_3-zmk/Dilemma3x6_3-zmk/zmk/app/boards/shields/nice_view/widgets/status.c:284: multiple definition of `widget_layer_status_work'; app/libapp.a(layer_status.c.obj):/__w/Dilemma3x6_3-zmk/Dilemma3x6_3-zmk/zmk/app/src/display/widgets/layer_status.c:51: first defined here

At first, I decided to just comment out anything custom connected with the display and see if the build will pass (commit).

It did so I installed new firmware on the board. After that, I noticed that the display stopped working. It started to show some gibberish. I thought that maybe this is due to some misconfiguration on my side.

I found this issue which mentions the same errors and applied the suggestion. This fixed the compilation so I uploaded new firmware on the board. However, the screen remained borked. I thought that it might be due to https://github.com/zmkfirmware/zmk/issues/1749

After this I decided to build the old firmware once again using the zmk revision from the day the of the last commit in my repository. That was 19 Jul, so I took f3110d1d1ea195725551b4c997c542a4003e1452 which is right before:

The build passed without any issues - https://github.com/ghostbuster91/Dilemma3x6_3-zmk/pull/4 and I uploaded it on the board. However the screen issue remains.

Below, photo of both halves, the right one with updated firmware and the left one with the original one.

1. Do you think that the display might have gotten irreversibly broken?
2. If so what could have caused that? If not, any ideas how to fix it?

[caksoylar]

I doubt your display is broken by flashing different firmwares. Just in case the setting got scrambled, I would try toggling external power off/on so that you can make sure it is on on both sides. Then wait a minute (so the setting is persisted to flash), and reset the controller. (Sometimes display doesn't boot up properly on ext. power on but it can boot after a reset.)

It looks like you figured out what happened: The nice!view got a custom status screen in the last year, and the .conf settings you used don't apply to them.

If I were you I wouldn't bother testing the old firmware. I'd flash the new one (if you want you can disable the custom screen https://github.com/zmkfirmware/zmk/issues/1273#issuecomment-1712938706 and keep your .conf settings) and test that. As an aside, you might want to use ZMK main along with https://github.com/dhruvinsh/zmk-tri-state module instead of nickconway's ZMK fork (which needs to be manually updated).

[ghostbuster91]

Then wait a minute (so the setting is persisted to flash)

What setting do you have in mind here?

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried restarting it on a battery and on ext_power. Still the issue persists :(

[caksoylar]

What setting do you have in mind here?

I mean the internally stored state of the external power toggle. When you use e.g. &ext_power EP_ON, the state gets saved to storage after one minute (to reduce flash wear on repeated uses).

I don't have other suggestions, but if you make a help post on the Discord maybe other folks can comment.

[ghostbuster91]

Got you. Thanks for your suggestions. I will look for more help on discord.

I am going to close the issue for now. If I get some new information that will be worth sharing I will post it here and we might then reopen.