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 Defines two buttons
 - first on GPIO 4, active low. When pressed, it triggers a navigation down command. When pressed more than 1000ms, it changes the button configuration for the one descrobed above
-- second on GPIO 5, acive low. When pressed it triggers a navigation up command. That button, in that configuration, has no shift option
+- second on GPIO 5, active low. When pressed it triggers a navigation up command. That button, in that configuration, has no shift option
 
 Below is a difficult but functional 2-buttons interface for your decoding pleasure