# Can Keybow see host's keyboard events?

**URL:** <https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/can-keybow-see-hosts-keyboard-events/11564>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [September 6, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/can-keybow-see-hosts-keyboard-events/11564 "2019-09-06T12:29:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![chegl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@chegl](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/chegl)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/can-keybow-see-hosts-keyboard-events/11564/1 "2019-09-06T12:29:35Z")

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Hi,

I checked this forum, the [tutorial](https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/using-macros-and-snippets-with-keybow) and the `pimoroni/keybow-firmware` issues on GitHub, but found nothing that quite matches my question:

_Can a Keybow monitor keypresses coming from the **host** keyboard?_ I would like to record new macros live (and store them on mSD for persistence), but it is unclear to me whether the Keybow can even see the host’s keypress events.  
There was [a discussion on GitHub](https://github.com/pimoroni/keybow-firmware/issues/13) about a possible “USB backchannel”, and the commit history mentions some serial port support, but I am not at all sure if these 2 are even related.

Thanks in advance!