Software-managed LED persistence and power management for devices that
expose RGBEffects (0x8071) — primarily G515 LIGHTSPEED TKL, but the same
infrastructure works on any 0x8071 device that supports SW takeover.
Core mechanism: RGBControl toggle drives a Set SWControl(mode=3, flags)
handshake. While SW control is held, the host owns the LED pipeline: zone
effects, per-key paint, idle/sleep transitions, and the NvConfig boot/exit
animations. On release, the firmware resumes its onboard profile.
Major pieces:
- rgb_power.py — new module hosting the software RGB power manager:
ACTIVE / DIMMING / IDLE / SLEEPING state machine driven by firmware
onUserActivity events, smooth 5-second dim ramp (zone or per-key), idle
Static color snap, software sleep timer, wake handler that re-pushes
saved state. Includes the cleanup hook that runs on device close (and,
optionally, fires the cap 0x0040 shutdown trigger).
- RGBControl (settings_templates) — switch-style render via BooleanValidator
(true_value=3 / false_value=0) plus a full _claim_sw_control /
_release_sw_control pair: profile-management mode, SetSWControl, per-key
flag reset, manager start, cleanup registration, and a post-claim
repaint pass so the device immediately reflects Solaar's saved zone +
per-key state.
- RGBEffectSetting — zone-effect Setting subclass for 0x8071. Handles
per-key/zone coexistence: per-key paint dominates only when zone is
Static and the user has explicitly opted in via the lock icon; under
animations or before opt-in, the zone wire push is the visible layer.
- RGBIdleEffect / RGBIdleTimeout / RGBSleepTimeout — Solaar-managed idle
behavior. Choice list: "No change" → Dim → Static (snap to color) →
device-specific animations. Static idle substitutes the idle color for
unset per-key cells via effective_zone_base_color's state-aware lookup.
- RgbStartupAnimation / RgbShutdownAnimation — toggle-and-color rows for
RGBEffects NvConfig caps 0x0001 and 0x0040, exposed only on devices
that answer the probe. Shutdown trigger fires SetRgbPowerMode(0) at
cleanup time so the firmware plays the configured animation on exit.
- PerKeyLighting — per-key painter improvements: explicit-opt-in
dominance over zone effects, BUSY retry, FrameEnd suppression on
per-cell failure, single-shot prep sequence (SetEffectByIndex into the
out-of-range slot) on mice with firmware effect cards.
- device_quirks.py — small per-model quirks table keyed by device.modelId
(stable across USB/BLE/wireless). Currently used to mark RGBEffects
NvConfig color slots as inert on devices where the firmware accepts
but ignores the bytes (G502 X PLUS startup colors).
- config_panel.py — HeteroKeyControl gains a TOGGLE field kind that
renders as a Gtk.Switch (used by the boot-effect rows). Visual gate
greys out RGB settings whose prerequisites aren't met: rgb_zone_* /
rgb_idle_* / rgb_sleep_timeout require LED Control = Solaar; per-key
additionally requires every zone effect to be Static. Visual-only —
doesn't touch the persister's user lock-icon state.
- tests/test_rgb_power.py — coverage for the power manager state
machine, dim ramp, idle effects, wake path, and per-key/zone
coexistence.
Closespwr-Solaar/Solaar#3149.
Replace the per-key dropdown UI (MapChoiceControl) with a Cairo-rendered
keyboard canvas where users can paint colors directly onto keys.
Editor (lib/solaar/ui/perkey/):
- Cairo DrawingArea renders cells from a Layout dataclass; bound cells
take their painted color, unset cells show a diagonal hash whose base
color matches the device's rgb_zone_* setting.
- Tools: brush, drag-rectangle, flood-fill (4-adjacent, Paint-style),
and a directional gradient (line A->B projected across the matrix
with cells past the endpoints clamped to the endpoint colors).
- GradientSwatch is the single source of truth for the gradient's two
colors; the canvas reads from it on each gradient stroke.
- Palette: GTK ColorButton plus an unset toggle that paints the
"no change" sentinel (-1).
- PerKeyEditorDialog auto-sizes from the canvas's size_request, so a
104-key keyboard opens wide and a 8-LED mouse opens compact.
- Editor consumes only a narrow PerKeyColorSink protocol; never imports
from lib/logitech_receiver, preserving the FE/BE seam.
- Per-device palette state (active + previous color) persists via the
existing persister under a _palette: prefixed key.
Layouts:
- ANSI 104-key full-size and TKL keyboard layouts.
- G502 X family mouse layout (zones 1-8 -> labels A-H).
- Generic registry: register_layout(feature, matcher, layout). A
_name_contains() helper builds case-insensitive substring matchers
against device codename / name. Unknown devices fall back to a flat
strip of all reported zones.
Validator (open value space):
- New Range dataclass and MapRangeValidator extending Validator
directly (kind=MAP_CHOICE for dispatch compatibility). Replaces the
ChoicesMapValidator on PerKeyLighting -- the named-color universe
(COLORSPLUS) was rejecting any picker color outside its ~20 entries.
Other MAP_CHOICE settings are untouched.
Integration:
- Setting base gains an editor_class string attribute. config_panel's
_create_sbox resolves it via importlib before the kind dispatch, so
PerKeyLighting routes to the new editor without a new Kind value.
- CLI gains a hex/dec parser for open-value MAP_CHOICE settings:
solaar config <dev> per-key-lighting A 0xFF00FF
- Diversion rule editor skips Range-valued MAP_CHOICE settings'
value-selector instead of crashing on the open value space.
- pycairo declared in install_requires; transitively present on most
systems but now explicit for pip-from-source installs.
Tests in test_setting_templates.py updated for the new validator.
* Add Centurion transport and PRO X 2 LIGHTSPEED headset support
Adds support for the Logitech PRO X 2 LIGHTSPEED Gaming Headset (PID 0x0AF7)
which uses the Centurion transport protocol (report ID 0x51 on USB usage page
0xFFA0) instead of standard HID++ report IDs.
Changes:
- HID enumeration: detect Centurion devices via report descriptor parsing
(usage page 0xFFA0, report ID 0x51, 63-byte frames)
- Centurion transport: wrap/unwrap HID++ 2.0 frames in Centurion framing
for write, read, and ping operations
- Feature discovery: enumerate features individually on Centurion devices
(different response format: [remaining_count, feat_hi, feat_lo])
- Device descriptor for PRO X 2 LIGHTSPEED Gaming Headset
- New feature enum entries for Centurion-era headset features (0x06xx)
- CenturionRawRW class for write-only headset settings controlled via
raw Centurion commands reverse-engineered from HeadsetControl
- HeadsetSidetone setting (0-100 range, persisted locally)
Known limitations:
- Only sidetone control is implemented; other features need RE work
- Settings are write-only (no read-back from device)
- Headset features (0x06xx) not discoverable via IRoot; registered manually
* Remove static PRO X 2 descriptor; fully probe Centurion devices at runtime
Replace the hardcoded descriptor entry with dynamic discovery of all device
properties via the Centurion protocol. The headset name, kind, serial,
firmware, and battery are now probed at runtime — matching how the device
actually presents itself rather than relying on static data.
Key changes:
- Discover sub-device features via CentPPBridge and route requests through
the bridge automatically
- Infer device kind from feature IDs (0x06xx = headset) for both wireless
and direct USB connections
- Read device name from USB product string with protocol probe fallback
- Parse bridge error responses (sub_feat_idx=0xFF) instead of timing out
- Handle unknown HID++ error codes gracefully in base.py
- Fix firmware deduplication for Centurion parent devices
- Prefer sub-device serial/firmware over parent (non-printable) values
- Add Centurion-aware display in solaar show with parent/sub-device sections
- Support both wireless (0AF7 dongle) and direct USB (0AF8) connections
* Display Centurion dongle as receiver with headset as child device
- Add CenturionReceiver class that provides the Receiver UI interface so
the dongle appears as a parent with the headset indented underneath,
matching how Lightspeed/Unifying receivers display
- Independently probe dongle features via feature_request() on the
CenturionReceiver, separate from headset features via bridge
- Fix bridge notification dispatch: remove incorrect sub_cpl=0xFF filter
that was silently dropping all battery and other notifications
- Fix battery status decoding: charging status is at byte 2 (not byte 1)
of the CENTURION_BATTERY_SOC response
- Detect wired vs wireless by checking for CentPPBridge in discovered
features; wired headsets fall back to standalone Device
- Name the dongle "Centurion Receiver" to distinguish from the headset
- Filter unprintable dongle serial (control characters 0x14-0x1F)
- Update CLI show output with proper receiver/child hierarchy and spacing
* Fix headset setting validators and code formatting
- Add signed int8 support to RangeValidator for HeadsetMicGain (0x0611)
- Make HeadsetSidetone version-aware: v1 uses 2-byte skip, v2+ uses
3-byte skip with 0xFF separator per protocol spec
- Fix ruff formatting in device.py, listener.py, udev_impl.py
- Update CenturionReceiver test for renamed receiver
* Use ConnectionStateChangedEvent for headset online/offline detection
Replace ad-hoc heuristics with proper bridge event function dispatch:
- Function 0 (ConnectionStateChangedEvent): parse sub-device list length
to determine connect (len>0) vs disconnect (len=0)
- Function 1 (MessageEvent): fallback online detection if headset sends
a message while marked offline (handles cold-start power-on)
Remove CPL sub_id>=0x80 fallback in listener that misidentified HID++
error replies as disconnect events. Skip HID++ 1.0
set_configuration_pending_flags for CenturionReceiver (not supported).
Also adds OnboardEQ (0x0636) support, bridge multi-fragment sends,
bridge-based headset ping probe, and CLI offline display.
* Update PRO X 2 LIGHTSPEED device doc with current solaar show output
* Fix Centurion protocol version display (1.16 not 2.6)
The HID++ ping math (major + minor/10.0) produced a bogus "2.6" for
Centurion devices whose ProtocolCapabilities returns major=1, minor=0x10.
Store the raw (major, minor) bytes from the ping response and display
them correctly as "Centurion 1.16" in both CLI and GUI.
* Add OnboardEQ (0x0636) support for Centurion headsets
Implement host-computed biquad EQ coefficient generation and multi-fragment
bridge writes for the PRO X 2 LIGHTSPEED headset's 5-band parametric EQ.
The coefficient algorithm uses standard Audio EQ Cookbook peaking EQ formulas
with a simplified rescale normalization (max_b0 × 1.19 headroom). This is our
own implementation — not an exact replica of LGHUB's ~350-line per-band cascade
normalization — but it produces functionally correct results. The DSP
compensates via the rescale factor, and the EQ changes are audible and working
on real hardware.
Wire format verified against 38 LGHUB pcap writes:
- 4-byte LE section headers, LE uint16 coefficient words
- Mixed Q1.31/Q2.30 fixed-point with 24-bit precision
- Only b-coefficients divided by rescale; a-coefficients unchanged
- Two sections: 48kHz playback + 16kHz mic
- No trailing padding, no extra words between sections
Changes:
- base.py: Add flags parameter to write_centurion_cpl() for multi-fragment CPL
- device.py: Rewrite multi-fragment bridge send — proper CPL fragmentation with
fragment 0 carrying bridge prefix/hdr and continuations carrying raw sub_msg,
all fragments sent back-to-back without intermediate ACKs
- hidpp20.py: Replace placeholder coefficient code with full biquad math,
mixed Q-format quantization, rescale normalization, and dual-section output
- settings_templates.py: Persist EQ to slot 0x80 after writing to slot 0x00
so settings survive power cycle
- tests: Update expected SetEQParameters payloads for new coefficient format
* Extract Centurion protocol into separate modules
Move CenturionReceiver class, factory function, and Centurion protocol
queries (firmware, serial, hardware info, battery, name) from device.py
and hidpp20.py into new centurion.py module. Move OnboardEQ biquad math
and payload builders from hidpp20.py into new onboard_eq.py module.
Move _read_usb_product_string() to common.py to avoid circular imports.
Re-exports preserve backward compatibility for all existing callers.
* Add vertical graphic EQ slider widget for headset equalizer
Replace horizontal slider rows with a traditional graphic EQ layout
using vertical sliders side-by-side, with dB value display and
frequency labels per band.
* Fix device online state clobbered by debug ping in _status_changed
The INFO-level logging guard in _status_changed() called device.ping()
before logging, purely to show accurate online status. But ping() has
side effects — it sets device.online based on the result. When a
ConnectionStateChangedEvent correctly marked a device online, the
subsequent _status_changed() callback would re-ping. If the device
wasn't ready yet (e.g. Centurion headset still booting), the ping
timed out and set online back to False, requiring 2-3 power cycles
to sync state.
Remove the unnecessary ping — the log message already reads
device.online which reflects the state set by the event handler.
* Sort feature constants by ID and add PROFILE_MANAGEMENT
Move RPM_INDICATOR/RPM_LED_PATTERN (0x807A-B) before PER_KEY_LIGHTING
(0x8080-81), sort five Centurion-era headset entries into their correct
positions by feature ID, and add missing PROFILE_MANAGEMENT = 0x8101.
* Add CenturionCoreFeature enum for colliding feature IDs
Centurion transport reuses HID++ 2.0 feature IDs 0x0000, 0x0001,
0x0003, 0x0005, 0x0007 with different meanings. Since SupportedFeature
(IntEnum) requires unique values, create a separate CenturionCoreFeature
enum and resolve_feature() helper for transport-aware lookup.
Also replace the +0x100 offset hack in FeaturesArray.inverse with a
dedicated sub_inverse dict for sub-device feature indexing.
* Fix ruff I001 import sorting in centurion.py and hidpp20.py
* Add 9 missing centurion/headset feature names
Add feature constants split out from the HID++ 2.0 names PR (#3153):
CENTURION_LED_BRIGHTNESS (0x0110), CENTURION_EU_POWER_MODE (0x0115),
CENTURION_DEVICE_BOOL_STATE (0x0116), HEADSET_ADVANCED_PARA_EQ (0x020D),
HEADSET_MIC_TEST (0x020E), HEADSET_EQ_STYLES (0x0213),
BT_HOST_INFO (0x0305), LIGHTSPEED_PAIRING (0x0309),
BT_GAMING_MODE (0x030A).
* Extract _record_ping_protocol helper so all ping paths capture Centurion version
The raw Centurion (major, minor) pickup was only in the Centurion-child
dongle branch of Device.ping(). Wired Centurion variants (e.g. PRO X 2
LIGHTSPEED 046d:0AF8) go through the generic fallback branch and never
recorded the raw version, so they displayed "Centurion 2.6" instead of
"Centurion 1.16".
Extract the protocol + centurion version recording into a helper and
call it from both branches.
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Co-authored-by: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com>
Logger enabled checks clutter the code unnecessarily. The checks are
now handled in a custom logger class. Eventually they can be completely
removed in the future.
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- Drop distuitls inf favour of setuptools
- Replace deprecated pyudev.Device.from_device_number
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- Shadows built-in name
- Line length >120 characters
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