Glorious - Numpad Prebuilt - Black Slate

The good: Heavy so it doesn't slide around, wireless and wired capability. The bad: Even in wired mode this thing goes to sleep every 10 minutes by default so I am constantly missing the first key press as it wakes up. I would expect that in wireless mode to save battery, but for a wired keyboard to even be capable of going to sleep is unacceptable, much less it being configured to do so by default. Very annoying and defeats the purpose as you may not need to use it constantly like a traditional keyboard. The slider can only be configured to control audio volume, nothing else. The rotary knob can also only be configured to control audio volume. Why... The only way to know if numlock is on is by toggling a setting to flash the side lights on an off. Constant flashing or no indication at all, those are your choices. A simple color toggle on the numlock key would be perfect, but that isn't possible to do in the software. I haven't even attempted to configure macros because of how poorly the sliders work out of the box. Rather than being programmed at the firmware level they rely on the software to work, and the software is terrible. Why basic configuration software needs to always be open and consuming resources is beyond me when everything could be accomplished at the firmware level. The software seems to not see the pad unless I reconnect it after waking from sleep. The software tends to quietly crash, so if you need to quickly turn down the volume or execute a macro you simply can't rely on this pad to do it consistently. All in all I should have returned this when I had the chance. It is priced like an ultra premium product with less than half-baked execution. I feel like most of the issues could be fixed via firmware, but I'm not holding my breath for glorious to release an update considering the choices they made on the first go around.

Great build quality for the most part. Hot-swappable switches. Slider and rotary encoder are nice. As others have mentioned, there's no way to prevent it from sleeping when hardwired. This is incredibly dumb. Additionally, the rotary encoder can only be a volume knob. If you're pairing this with, say, a GMMK Pro, you already have a volume knob that can't be reassigned to anything else. Very dumb. As an aside, the stabilizers on my keypad were all over-lubricated, which necessitated disassembly of the keypad in order to clean and relube.

Very good build quality. Sturdy and wont slide around while using it. The battery life is short even after changing settings to reduce battery usage. The wireless connection can be a bit flaky. Seems ro drop randomly with no quick way to get it to reconnect. All in all, it's a quality built product that needs a bigger battery or better management through software. Something needs to be done about connection drops, especially after going to sleep Still glad I bought it as me new keyboard is a rkl version and i missed the numpad.