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It would appear that the Hexcore website is down.

Upstream source hexcore.xyz appears to have suffered a critical server misconfiguration or a complete environment reset. As of late December 2025, the server at 120.26.250.197 is no longer serving company content/binaries and is instead displaying a default LNMP (Linux/Nginx/MySQL/PHP) placeholder page. This indicates the web-root has been wiped or the Nginx config has reverted to factory defaults.

I moved to hosting the .tar.gz files that are dependencies of this package, to Google Cloud, to allow this package to continue to build.

The ObinsKit package has an identical hash to last commit, as I had that one cached locally, so this is just as "safe" as the last version of this package. The Hexcore Link budnle required rebuilding the .tar.gz locally, and I have renamed it accordinly, but uses the exact same binaries as the last commit, but feel free to inspect.

Just being transparent about the upstream link changing.

https://s3.hexcore.xyz/occ/linux/tar/ObinsKit_1.2.11_x64.tar.gz is gone, 404 error

https://www.hexcore.xyz/occ/linux/tar/ObinsKit_1.2.11_x64.tar.gz Change it on PKGBUILD of downloand manually solves the problem.

[UPDATE 2025-10-23] The issue is now resolved on v1.2.11-3 — the package builds successfully with the updated link.

Thanks @ScoopNewsworthy for your work on this package.

Is this expected to run on Wayland? What about bluetooth.service? Neither 1.2.11-1/2 run successfully on my system (Thinkpad p1 gen5, nvidia A1000, disabled intel graphics in bios, x86_64, 6.3.5-arch1-1, hyprland-nvidia-git r2914.79b8576d-1). bluetooth.service is enabled and active.

Following journalctl --all when launching obinskit from terminal doesn't produce anything interesting, and there's no stdout/err in the terminal. However, grepping the journal for "obinskit" produces evidence of past misbehavior, e.g. this Graphics Exception:

NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:01:00): 13, pid=153998, name=obinskit, Graphics Exception: ChID 0078, Class 0000c797, Offset 00000000, Data 00000000

and a core dump from a few days ago. (no debug symbols in the binary so stack trace is not very useful).

So, ATM I'm suspecting it's a wayland issue or other cockpit error on my part. Any ideas/suggestions?

UPDATE: Using the various wayland flags for chrome/ium/electron apps (documented here) either makes obinskit dump core or has no effect.

UPDATE 2: --use-gl=egl was the first command line option I tried that allowed obinskit to run and be visible/functional in Hyprland. With this, I don't appear to need any ozone flags..

Updated to use curl instead of wget, per feedback below. Made a replica package for Hexcore Link (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hexcore-link), for anyone with an Anne Pro 2D or compatible keyboard who wants to try it out. I only have an Anne Pro 2, so am unable to test at this time.

Do anyone had success installing Hexcore Link?

FYI, curl is in core, and it's a direct dependency of pacman. so it's actually much more likely that someone doesn't have wget installed. Curl is also the default agent for http(s) in /etc/makepkg.conf, so it's a good idea to keep it that way. (fwiw, I usually don't have wget installed)

updated. used wget instead of curl here, in case someone doesn't have curl installed. I can change it over to curl if wget exhibits any issues for anyone.

Piggybacking off of G_Ranger's suggestion, the way to modify PKGBUILD to make curl pass the correct referrer:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index d6dd7da..6a1cfd2 100755
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ source_x86_64=("https://s3.hexcore.xyz/occ/linux/tar/ObinsKit_${pkgver}_x64.tar.
 "deb_extra_files_obins.tar.gz")
 sha256sums_x86_64=('2a10aed5366c2667174525924da60e323b7e200e2aa9abc1c1a6335e792096cd'
 '137296d606b8127dfda7626421fd17fbee06712678b7ae25793e51d78221fab5')
+DLAGENTS=('https::/usr/bin/curl -qgC - -e https://www.hexcore.xyz/obinskit -o %o %u')


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for those who need it (reference: /etc/makepkg.conf)

Hexcore added a referer filter. Can no longer download the tarball and breaks install. curl with referer or switch to the non-gzipped version?

Quick fix for those that need help: Download this pkg snapshot and extract. Go to https://www.hexcore.xyz/obinskit and click download .tar.gz and copy that file into the previous. Run makepkg in that directory. Then run sudo pacman -U obinskit-1.2.11-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.

I did a diff on the packages at https://s3.hexcore.xyz/occ/linux/tar/ObinsKit_1.2.11_x64.tar.gz and https://annepro.s3.amazonaws.com/4-tar-gz.tar. Doesn't appear to be any difference between the two, except the latter source is not gzipped, which would increase the binary download size for this package. Please let me know if I'm missing something (i.e. is this current AUR build not working for anyone or is there something about the second source that's preferable?) The first source is reached via: https://www.hexcore.xyz/obinskit, while the second source is reached via: https://getannepro.com/pages/obinskit.