tb75252 Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Would somebody know if the LED brightness control button works independently from the Vortez software? (Which I imagine is available only for Microsoft Windows!) In other words, if I run Linux, would I be able to do a basic control of the brightness of the keyboard with just the LED brightness control button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee Corsair James Posted October 9, 2014 Corsair Employee Share Posted October 9, 2014 The LED Brightness button doesn't need software to work. You can dim/brighten the keyboard without it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb75252 Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 The LED Brightness button doesn't need software to work. You can dim/brighten the keyboard without it. How many levels of brightness can I control with the button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalcProgrammer1 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 The button offers 3 levels of brightness as well as off. That said, I've decoded the USB protocol used by Corsair's software on Windows and wrote a program that can set the LEDs on Linux (requires root, or at least your user account needs USB access). I just finished decoding the LED positions. It's not anywhere near end-user ready but if you know your way around C code and just want to set a static pattern you can definitely use it. The latest code (steps through all the LEDs in sequence while printing out their ID number): http://pastebin.com/x1RetGkU Compile with -std=c99 and -lusb flags. It should hopefully be easy to understand, LED values are 0x07 down to 0x00 (inverted, so 0x07 is off and 0x00 is full bright). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicequips Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 How do you unlock the "brightness" control in: ...Corsair Utility Engine/predefined_data/PredefinedLightings/Brightness...? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Lighting version="1" Type="KeyboardIndicator"> <Id>{3777801e-5b75-409d-9a82-fe2092a7299c}</Id> <Name>Brightness</Name> <Note></Note> <Duration>-842150451</Duration> <Date>2014-09-04</Date> <IsHidden>true</IsHidden> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <IsPredefined>false</IsPredefined> <Brightness>10</Brightness> <stageLightings> <lighting version="1"> <color>#555555</color> <brightness>100</brightness> </lighting> <lighting version="1"> <color>#aaaaaa</color> <brightness>100</brightness> </lighting> <lighting version="1"> <color>#ffffff</color> <brightness>100</brightness> </lighting> </stageLightings> <behaviour version="1" type="3"/> </Lighting> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiljensen2 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 How do you unlock the "brightness" control in: ...Corsair Utility Engine/predefined_data/PredefinedLightings/Brightness...? Profiles>Lightning>right click any key>indicator This will allow you to change the different lightning depending on the brightness/winlock/mr keys. If you right click on the corresponding keys like brightness, you can also change how they behave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicequips Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Say whhuuuuttt ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiljensen2 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Say whhuuuuttt ??? The "brightness" control profile you're looking at is for the brightness key on the keyboard http://puu.sh/c5d6w/02bead3a15.jpg I just explained how you could change the colors for it using the software. To be more precise the profile you're looking at is just a template, the real file would be located in "C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Corsair\HID\Lightings" (presumingly after you've already changed it in the software) so this would be the place to change it if you want to do it through text editing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicequips Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Don't care about the "colors". The question as posted is about "brightness". You see the "brightness" value...100? Make that 101, etc. Or the "10" ...11. Or any other values to another value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emiljensen2 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Don't care about the "colors". The question as posted is about "brightness". You see the "brightness" value...100? Make that 101, etc. Or the "10" ...11. Or any other values to another value. That is just the brightness of the color listed, not the brightness of the keyboard. http://puu.sh/c5el3/99a25a95e8.jpg The bottom brightness slider is available everywhere in the software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb75252 Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 The button offers 3 levels of brightness as well as off. That said, I've decoded the USB protocol used by Corsair's software on Windows and wrote a program that can set the LEDs on Linux (requires root, or at least your user account needs USB access). I just finished decoding the LED positions. It's not anywhere near end-user ready but if you know your way around C code and just want to set a static pattern you can definitely use it. The latest code (steps through all the LEDs in sequence while printing out their ID number): http://pastebin.com/x1RetGkU Compile with -std=c99 and -lusb flags. It should hopefully be easy to understand, LED values are 0x07 down to 0x00 (inverted, so 0x07 is off and 0x00 is full bright). Thank you for your hard work and for supporting Linux. Corsair should take a cue from you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicequips Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Since am not the smartest tool on this forum, someone please help me get my palms off of my forehead...it is starting to hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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