This is a rant about ASUS and their RGB lighting software

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Crackhappy@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

Back in the day, I knew what I would get from ASUS and their AURA tech. Pretty simple, just choose what you want and go. My LEDs did what I wanted, it was simple. But no… no they said. Instead we want you to download most of a gig of bullshit to do the same thing, but with extra fucking steps.

I’m pretty sure my light controlling software is now tracking me. I’m not sure if the pattern of my LEDs are watching me or not.

How the shit did we let this come to pass? Why do we let these monstrosities into our life?

I’m part of the problem, I know. I just want my lights to do what I tell them to.

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theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What annoys me about all this LED crap is that I have to download whatever companies shitty software to disable that shit. IMO all lights should be off entirely unless you install a program to switch them on.

But I can definitely agree that the software is also shitty.

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- Wahots@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This is why I bought a mobo with BIOS level RGB. Can disable that shit at the lowest level possible. Still comes on if you clear cmos/the battery dies, but that seldom happens anyways. I still would prefer it not have rgb in the first place though.
  
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nicman24@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
openrgb worked great for me. it is available for all OS

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- Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The latest two or so versions of OpenRGB have been great. Pretty much all of my RGB is supported in my machine.
  
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- treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I wasn’t able to get that to place nice with all my RGB garbage. Really great idea though. Wish manufacturers would just lean into it.
  
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  - nicman24@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    it quite easy to add new hw if you got any programming experience
    
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- Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Hadn’t heard of that, will look into it. Thanks!
  
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steebo_jack@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I yearn for the day when this lighting fad dies...my case has no plexiglass yet my ram motherboard and video card has lights...I'm surprised Intel doesn't have LEDs on their processors yet ..

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- TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You might be waiting a long time because people were already jamming cold cathode tubes into their PCs 25 years ago before LEDs got popular.
  
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  - Pinecone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Haha I remember those days. Every super hardcore case modding nerd was taking a Dremel to their side panels for more fan space and places for windows. They all used those old school fan grilles screwed onto the outside.
    
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- Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  My case is steel and glass but I feel you.
  
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- ares35@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  they've got lighting on some stock hsf now, so just give 'em time......
  
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orclev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I dream that someday there will be a simple piece of OSS that can control all this RGB crap. We’ve very nearly arrived at a single universal RGB header (not quite, but it’s down to 2 major common ones, and one of two oddball proprietary one offs), but the software side of things is still an absolute clusterfuck. At least in the embedded space there’s only a couple standard control protocols.

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- VishousDeelishous@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I use OpenRGB to manage the msi mobo, corsair mouse, reddragon keyboard, and my reference amd gpu. Works pretty flawlessly. There is a comprehensive compatibility list for hardware to look at.
  
  Please do read carefully on the hcl though. Previously the software in older versions was damaging the rgb controllers on some msi boards a few years back. It has since been resolved, but I’m not sure if there are any other possibly incompatible hardwares out there.
  
  https://openrgb.org/
  
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  - Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’d second OpenRGB. Works fine with all the stuff I have and has a low footprint and overhead. At least lower than all those other monsters. Would never install a GB of crap just for silly blinking lights.
    
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- ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think i read that Windows update 22h2 introduces native RGB lighting controls? I don’t know what the limits are, is it only motherboard direct connections like case fans etc? But perhaps they are working with (or against) hardware manufacturers to take rgb control of peripherals as well, idk.
  
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  - zingo@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Its still Windows. Even with RGB lipstick, it’s still a pig.
    
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LinuxSBC@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Have you tried OpenRGB?

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- Wahots@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I had really mixed results with NZXT, Asus lights (mobo), whatever the fuck EK uses, and Glorious LEDs.
  
  OpenRGB found half, turned off some, and only allowed me to change some of the colors. In the end, I uninstalled OpenRGB and a bunch of other software and now everything is a permanent white, which is fine.
  
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xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Its actually worse than that. Their fucking software doesnt work. I had to use the button on the case to have any control over the rgb.

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- Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I haven’t had that problem but I would like to know more.
  
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stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I wish that crap could be customized in the bios and not need software unless you want to change stuff through the desktop OS. I stopped messing with RGB stuff and went to rainbow barf due to not wanting to deal with the software. Next build will be no RGB.

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narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
FYI if you don’t care about special effects or whatever you can set a static color or I think a basic rainbow or turn lights off entirely via the BIOS settings. No need for crapware.

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- orclev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sort of. While their crapware can reliably control all the LEDs in your system, I’ve found that the options in the BIOS only reliably control the actual motherboard. E.G. I’ve got mine setup to just turn all the LEDs off, but the RAM and GPU still default to a rainbow pattern. If I install their crapware and choose off as the mode everything turns off, not just the motherboard.
  
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  - narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It controls the mainboard and everything connected to ASUS AURA RGB headers. Your RAM and GPU likely use a different (non-)standard.
    
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- Wahots@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Also, iirc, you can set it once and uninstall the software and it should (or at least, used to, in 2020) be able to stay on whatever you last set it as. That’s how I got my pump to stay on just white.
  
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amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Asusctl on linux works great!

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- Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I get you. I have run various distros for over 20 years but I am old and tired and I don’t want to engage with a cli again unless it ends with a t.
  
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  - sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I find it far less tiring than navigating frustrating UIs. Modern GUI programs are in the most part awfully designed, slow and ugly.
    
    For most things, and specially tasks like configurations, I prefer to copy paste a command and be done with it.
    
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  - amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Asusctl itself provides a GUI called rog-control-center, but I understand you mean cli user across linux itself
    
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PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
My Computers aren’t aircraft… Why do you have lights on yours?

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- Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I thoroughly enjoy the lights syncing with the music when I’m reading my Kindle in the dark. There are other solutions of course but this just happened to be built into the motherboard I bought.
  
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sleepmode@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Asrock app is trash too. Takes ages to start up and the UI is edgy-looking, wannabe ROG garbage. You can only control the motherboard RGB from the BIOS, so you can’t avoid ditching it if you want everything off on your RAM, etc. and of course the Kingston defaults are godawful pulsing rainbow eye-cancer. I miss evga so much.

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