Awesome
rogauracore - RGB keyboard control for Asus ROG laptops
(c) 2019 Will Roberts
Linux-compatible open-source libusb implementation similar to the ROG Aura Core software. Supports RGB keyboards with IDs 0b05:1854 (GL553, GL753), 0b05:1869 (GL503, FX503, GL703), 0b05:1866 (GL504, GL533, GL703, GX501, GM501), and 0b05:19b6 (GA503).
Usage
Usage:
rogauracore COMMAND ARGUMENTS
COMMAND should be one of:
single_static
single_breathing
single_colorcycle
multi_static
multi_breathing
rainbow_cycle
red
green
blue
yellow
gold
cyan
magenta
white
black
rainbow
brightness
initialize_keyboard
In typical use, you will need root privileges to directly communicate
with the laptop's keyboard. This is easy to do with sudo
. Try some
of these commands and see what works for you:
sudo rogauracore single_static 0000ff
sudo rogauracore single_static 00ff00
sudo rogauracore single_static ffff00
sudo rogauracore multi_static ff0000 ffff00 00ff00 00ffff
sudo rogauracore single_colorcycle 1
If your keyboard does not respond to rogauracore
, it may help to
send an initialisation message to the keyboard to "wake it up":
sudo rogauracore initialize_keyboard
If your keyboard remains dark, its brightness might have defaulted to 0. Try:
sudo rogauracore brightness 3
Installation
Ubuntu
In all cases you will need libusb
and libusb-dev
installed:
sudo apt install libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev
Optionally you might also need build tools:
sudo apt install build-essential
Retrieve the rogauracore
package, either through curl
or git
:
VERSION=1.6
curl -LOs https://github.com/wroberts/rogauracore/releases/download/$VERSION/rogauracore-$VERSION.tar.gz
tar xf rogauracore-$VERSION.tar.gz
cd rogauracore-$VERSION/
or
git clone https://github.com/wroberts/rogauracore.git
cd rogauracore
autoreconf -i
Then configure, make and install:
./configure
make
sudo make install
Tips and tricks
On some machines, running rogauracore
can cause the system's power
management to not be able to find the keyboard backlight control.
This manifests as unresponsive UI controls for brightening and
darkening the keyboard backlight. If this issue affects you,
@willlovesbearz suggests running
this command after rogauracore
:
sudo systemctl restart upower.service
Related projects
-
rogauracore-gui is an Electron-based GUI for
rogauracore
by @rastafaninplakeibol. -
OpenRGB can probably do all the things that
rogauracore
can do.