A Separate Keyboard For Automation. Versatile, Efficient, Convenient | AHK + AHI Tutorial

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Published 2021-01-12
■ ■ ■ IN THIS TUTORIAL ■ ■ ■
►1) I explain what is AHK and how you can use this amazing tool to be more productive.
►2) I show how a very simple automation can save you tons of time in the long run and make the experience of working on a PC more enjoyable in general.
►3) I provide a step by step guide for the AHK and AHI installation and writing your first scripts.
►4) I show you how you can assign any automated actions to a 2nd keyboard without overriding the keys of your main keyboard.

0:00 - Introduction
1:44 - Paint Demonstration
4:00 - DaVinci Resolve Demonstration
7:32 - AHK installation tutorial
9:27 - Basics of scriptwriting
13:36 - AHI tutorial / 2nd Keyboard setup
18:25 - AHI Script Examples
22:00 - Mouse Automation
25:06 - Sleep - AHK delay command
25:43 - THM (TapHoldManager)
30:29 - The last couple of tips

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( ! ! ! ) The link to the scripts and files that are shown in this video:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/13eIfdI_WooVTsVFxXL…

►►► LINKS TO ONLINE RESOURCES ◄◄◄

► AHK (AutoHotKey) =================
• OFFICIAL SITE: www.autohotkey.com/

► SciTE4AHK ========================
• MAIN LINK: www.autohotkey.com/scite4ahk/
• BACKUP LINK: fincs.ahk4.net/scite4ahk/

► AHI (AutoHotInterception) ========
• DRIVER: github.com/oblitum/Interception/releases/tag/v1.0.…
• AHK INTEGRATION: github.com/evilC/AutoHotInterception/releases/tag/…

► THM (TapHoldManager) =============
• AHK INTEGRATION: github.com/evilC/TapHoldManager/releases

►Online Help Manual ===============
www.autohotkey.com/docs/AutoHotkey.htm

All Comments (21)
  • @emmaweber2311
    This video was soooo good - I would actually pay you for a Skillshare course on Automating Windows with AHK
  • Thank you so much for this tutorial! This was by far the most helpful guide for what I wanted to accomplish and thanks to you I am now able to script commands that trigger with the press of a single button on my second keyboard. I'm really looking forward to using this more.
  • @louisgagarin
    Man, I thank you so much! This was all the information I was looking for last 2 weeks! Thank you man!
  • @jehuthra2
    DUDE!!!! Soo grateful for this tutorial. I knew AHK well, but getting my first AHI script running was the problem. You saved me. THANKS!!!
  • @VFXnirvana
    Hay man, hand down, you have been a great helping understand AHK and finally set my secondary Keyboard!
  • @Caspar1989
    Thank you! Awesome tutorial! I propably wouldn't have figured it out without it!
  • For people that don’t have access to a second keyboard or don’t have room on their desk for one, they could do the following: Partially remap a rarely used button like scroll lock or print screen, so that if pressed once it gets locked in the down state. Then any of the hot keys you mapped to the second keyboard could be mapped to the first keyboard. The outcomes of the hot key would only happen if the “switcher” button is in the down position. When finished, just press that button again to put in the up state, thus disabling the hot keys. Basically the switcher would allow you to use any other key for special hot keys
  • @nguyenvuan
    Thank you for such a great tutorial! I can start doing my own automation after watching this video.
  • @clementletou
    Thanks a lot! I struggled a little but I made it work! I can now use two keyboards and this is amazing!
  • @cmarinho182
    This is amazing. I have being using it for almost 3 years now. Thks
  • @robbinscott160
    Really good Video Thank You very much I never would have known exactly what to do😉
  • @zecaveman1053
    Wooow that's that's what I'm talking about .. you're the best !
  • @100Bucks
    Another method which I think is way easier to setup is a program called keyboardsplitter. Keyboardsplitter turns your keyboard into a Xbox controller. If you write scripts Joystick buttons, they don't interfere with regular keyboard keys. Meaning, when you emulate your second keyboard into a Xbox controller. You write scripts with Joy1:: Joy2:: Joy3:: and so on. Also make sure you go to USB game controller options in windows to see which buttons are what. So if windows USB controllers highlights buttton1. You write your script with Joy1. Joy1:: Send easy way to setup second keyboard return