The laptop I currently have is the GX502RW and so I'll be using that for the basis of this app. If I get wireshark captures from others with different ROG laptops then I should be able to add something like laptop and feature detection.

Requirements

rustc, cargo
libusb-1.0-0-dev or equivalent package for your distro
libdbus-1-dev or equivalent package for your distro

Installing

Run make then sudo make install. If you want to use the daemon mode on system boot you'll need to enable and start the systemd service with:

$ sudo systemctl start rog-core.service
$ sudo systemctl enable rog-core.service

Use

Running the program as a daemon manually will require root. Standard (non-daemon) mode expects to be communicating with the daemon mode over dbus.

Commands are given by:

rog-core <option> <command> <command-options>

Help is available through:

rog-core --help
rog-core <command> --help

Some commands may have subcommands:

rog-core <command> <subcommand> --help

Daemon mode

Currently the last used brightness and builtin mode will be saved when set, and loaded when the daemon is started. The effect here is the last settings used are the ones loaded on boot. The daemon also saves the settings per mode as the keyboard does not do this itself - this means cycling through modes with the Aura keys will use the settings that were used via CLI.

Currently if no options are supplied for the CLI mode selection then a default is used, and this will overwrite the saved setting. I will fix this at a later date.

Implemented

Setting/modifying built-in LED modes
Per-key LED setting
Fancy LED modes (custom programs)
Daemon mode
Saving settings for reload
System control
- Sleep
- Airplane mode
- Screen brightness up/down
- ROG key custom mapping
- Fan/Performance mode
- Screen off??
- Touchpad toggle
- Aura control by Aura keys
Capture and use hotkeys Partially completed: aura keys work
Logging - required for journalctl

Wireshark captures

TODO: see ./wireshark_data/ for some captures.

Supporting more laptops

At a minimum it probably needs to be a Zephyrus laptop. If there is enough interest I will remove the restriction on board names so that anyone can try the app.

From there I'll need wireshark captures from Windows using Armoury Crate if possible:

No USB devices plugged in
One action per capture, 2 or 3 times
An action may be switching a mode or pressing a button

The real ticket items are:

Captures from installing Armoury Crate. To do this you need to uninstall almost all ASUS junkware and such
Byte sequence captures from hotkeys pressed in linux (which I need to make a tool for)
lsusb output

lsusb:

First do lsusb |grep 0b05 and check the part after 0b05:, output looks like:

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0b05:1866 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. N-KEY Device

Then do lsusb -vd 0b05:1866 > ~/laptop_info and give that to me.

cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name is the other I'm interested in for the sake of information.

License

Mozilla Public License 2 (MPL-2.0)