r/zsaVoyager

ZSA customer support has just been outstanding, every question answered and every problem resolved with a positive attitude, truly top 1% of customer service experiences. I actually enjoy talking to them instead of dreading it. Just told all my tech friends regarding the voyager and the other offerings. Also just ordered the trackpad. I am getting used to my voyager so much i am ordering a second one for the office, just in case one dies I don't want to be without a spare.

Only room for improvement - please hire more people so orders ship faster. The wait is killing us (not really but faster is better, US Customs slows things down a lot)

Hey, i've received my trackpad navigator today and i have to say im kinda disappointed. This doesn't really feel as a polished ZSA product.

I'm comparing it mainly to the trackball module that i've been using before.

The finish is great, fingers slide on it much better than on e.g. the go60 pads, these are terrible.

But it very frequently mistakes single finger movement for two fingers? And vice versa.

Also any customization seems to be not yet available in the oryx configurator, so i can't for example change the angle. So what happens is that here and there i accidentaly trigger browser back gesture. Or zoom.

Hope that these might get fixed by adding configuration options into oryx.

Anyone else feel the same?

Here's my current layout https://configure.zsa.io/voyager/layouts/MWma4/latest/0

What I'm trying to do is have ESC in layer 0, but still have a way to do ALT-TAB between windows. The difficulty is that I need to hold ATL so I can tap repeatedly on tab to cycle through the windows with TAB. An ALT-TAB combo won't work because it fires off a single ALT-TAB and then I can't cycle through all the windows.

I can do it if I hold "F" taking me to my text nav layer, but then it becomes a 3 key gesture.

I tried to use the <Del> key (small left thumb key) so that when I hold it it activates layer 3 with the alt key pressed, then I could hold it and cycle through with tab. When I tried setting the hold function on that key to "LM - Momentary Layer with Modifier" (change layer to layer 3 while held, with the "ALT" key held), I found that you can't have a tap trigger on that key, so I lost my DEL key.

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Or, to put it a different way, what's the easiest way to leave my base layer largely untouched, but allow me to do an ALT-TAB cycle through windows.

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A nice to know would be: why can't I have "LM - Momentary layer with modifier" on hold and also a tap trigger?
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I'm not sure if that's just the way it works, or if I'm doing something wrong. The key I have mapped to Del I have as Alt on hold. I've realised I want to change my Tab key for Esc, as I use it more frequently. However I also do alt+tab all the time. I created a layer where all keys were "transparent" except Esc, then it was tab and tried to make the Del key momentary layer with modifier that goes to that new layer with Alt pressed. It deleted my Tap mapping.

So, am I misunderstanding what it does?

Why do I lose my Tap capability?

Is there a way around it?

I don't think I can use a macro as I need the Alt to be held, and making the macro alt+tab doesn't work, I need it to be hold alt then tap tab to cycle through.

hey! ive flashed a new FW to my voyager today and suddenly the trackball with drag scroll key is doing almost nothing. i need to spin the ball to actually get a cm of scroll on firefox in ubuntu on wayland. anyone have similar problem?

I ordered the Voyager about 4 days ago without the trackball, as I have never used a trackball and am not really sure I would like it. This morning, I got an email that ZSA had released a new navigation trackpad. I emailed customer service to inquire about adding the trackpad to my order, since it hasn't been shipped yet, and got a response within minutes asking which side and what color! Customer service where your problems/questions are handled that quickly is rare today, and I really appreciate it. I don't have the keyboard yet, and I already know it's going to be high-quality based on my interaction today.

Thank you, Nick, for your help with the navigator and answering my additional questions about the switches. I look forward to learning the ins and outs of my new board and adapting to a layer-centric approach!

I am disappointed.

for some unknown reason the trackpad order was blocked to my country because of "high shipping cost and import fees" despite its me who pays these. and despite that at the same time ordering the trackball was possible. I tries to get answer from support, but weekend started and now its out of stock.

this is a small rant, but I really don't get why they blocked trackpad orders to my EU country, while the same size device was available.

edit: got an answer that this is caused by some past issues with customs in my country, where they were charging more that expected for items of less than 160USD

If anyone has a broken Voyager, or maybe just one half with the other half missing, left or right does not matter, I’d be interested in buying it if the price is low. DM me or reply here in the comments. Keycaps and switches are not needed. I don’t need accessories or anything else either.

Hi there, I recently finished creating my tour and thought I'd share it.

The layout relies heavily on combos for special characters and was made with neovim in mind.

If you're a vim user, you know that special characters are used for coding but also for navigating the code so the quick access nature of special characters with combos feels great, i think 🤷‍♂️.

I'm curious to know your thoughts and maybe hope to inspire new voyager users still refining their layout.

https://configure.zsa.io/voyager/layouts/Qww9W/latest/0/intro

Cheers