Scythe USB-1FS-2 USB Foot Switch Version II - Single

I have purchased several of these footswitches over the years and have had the chance to see them perform in harsh industrial environments over long periods of time. I was a bit wary of going with these (as opposed to industrial grade footswitches or footswitches with serial connectors) but these footswitches have exceeded my expectations. Out of about 30 in the field, none have failed. These are high quality components that you can be confident will pass the test of time. The pedal itself is on the small size but nearly all footswitches are these days. The one issue I had was with the programming - in a handful of instances, they "lost" their programming (they forget which key on the keyboard they need to emulate and must be reprogrammed) but this takes just a minute to fix and anyone can do it provided they have the driver. In short, an excellent product that I keep buying when the need arises.

Pros: seems like the build quality is excellent.Cons: only includes a CD for software, no where to download the software, and company has yet to respond to 3 inquiries. If you don’t have a CD rom drive, this will not work as plug n play doesn’t work.

Would have returned it, but was too slow. The push requires real concentration, It's a real pedal, with lack of feedback though and not a switch that you can just tap. Build as a tank though, so if you ok with it being hard to press, this thing outlasts all of your electronics.

Got the pedal in and at first could not get it to work. When I tried to change the key mapping with included CD it told me the pedal was not plugged in. Something to do with the drivers. I found some articles online and tried to fix it but had no luck. When Monday rolled around I send an e-mail the Scythe. My first reply was to just return it. I didn't want to do that so I pressed for a fix. The 2nd e-mail had a link and it said try this. So I did and the newest one worked after downloading the .exe onto my desk top. I will include the link. It might be of some use to others that had the same issue I did for whatever reason.You could try the software found in below linkftp://ftp.scythe-eu.com/Software/USB-Foot-Switch-II/The pedal it self looks sturdy enough only time shall tell.

I plugged the switch into a USB port. Windows 7 installed its driver without anything further from me. It first took Windows a few minutes to find the driver online (apparently at Windows Update, according to the progress window).At that stage, pressing the foot switch acted as if I had typed the numeral 1 on the keyboard. Not useful.The included CD ROM has the configuration application; it's not a driver. To install and run this application, All I needed to do was copy the files onto my hard drive and double-click the .exe file. That opened the applications window.I found it easy enough to chose "left mouse click" as the effect that I wanted for a foot-switch press. However, I still got the numeral 1 instead.My choice took effect when I clicked SAVE. You have been warned!The software is so-so, and the instructions are awful, in your choice of about 8 languages, possibly converted by Google Translate 8-).But the switch is working fine so far, and that's what I wanted. I want to take a series of photos without taking my hands away from adjusting the subject.

It does what it says, and works well. Basically, it allows you to assign any keystroke or mouse click to the keyboard. I have it set to hit the Spacebar whenever I press the foot pedal (needed for another program that I can't use my hands). However, the manual looks like it was originally written in Chinese, and then translated by google translate into English. The manual is almost worthless. Basically, from what I've figured out, you copy the 3 files on the CD to somewhere on your computer. Then run the .exe file to configure it. RIGHT click on the blank area, hit the key you want assigned (Space-bar in my case), and then hit the Save button. Once it's set up, it works great. Setting it up is the hard part.....

Upon receiving this product I plugged it in immediately and Windows detected it as a "USB Composite Device". I popped in the disc and waited for Windows to read it so I could copy off the files as the manual says, however that never happened. It seems like Windows just can't read the disc at all. Sits there making an occasional whirring sound in my disc drive but Windows just thinks there's no disc at all.So I downloaded the files off of Scythe's FTP server instead and tried running from there, but all the software does is tell me that there's "no usb hidkb connected!"In lieu of that, this pedal appears to do absolutely nothing out of the box and I cannot run any of the software to configure it. So it turns out this pedal is totally useless to me.

Dont buy the $12 plastic one it broke in 3 months with normal not harsh use - this one is made of medal and feels like it will last years.I had problems getting it to work kept saying it wasnt connected when running the software that lets you change the key it runs.Found 2 solutions had to do both of them. 1. Run the software that comes with it as ADMINISTRATOR - right click the file run as administrator should be a choice. if it still doesnt work 2. Change it from a keyboard to a human input device update the driver then run as administrator.Now it works like a dream.