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**Solaar** is a Linux device manager for Logitech's [Unifying Receiver][unifying]
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peripherals. It is able to pair/unpair devices to the receiver, and for most
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devices read battery status.
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It comes in two flavors, command-line and GUI. Both are able to list the
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devices paired to a Unifying Receiver, show detailed info for each device, and
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also pair/unpair supported devices with the receiver.
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## Supported Devices
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**Solaar** will detect all devices paired with your Unifying Receiver, and at
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the very least display some basic information about them.
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For some devices, extra settings (usually not available through the standard
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Linux system configuration) are supported. For a full list of supported devices
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and their features, see [docs/devices.md](docs/devices.md).
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## Pre-built packages
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Pre-built packages are available for a few Linux distros:
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* Ubuntu 12.04+: [ppa:daniel.pavel/solaar][ppa]
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* a Debian/sid package: [.deb][debian]
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* a [Gentoo overlay][gentoo], courtesy of Carlos Silva
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* an [OpenSUSE rpm][opensuse], courtesy of Mathias Homann
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* an [Arch package][arch], courtesy of Arnaud Taffanel
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[ppa]: http://launchpad.net/~daniel.pavel/+archive/solaar
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[debian]: http://pwr.github.com/Solaar/packages/solaar_0.8.7.1-1_all.deb
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[gentoo]: http://code.r3pek.org/gentoo-overlay/src
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[opensuse]: http://software.opensuse.org/package/Solaar
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[arch]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/solaar
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## Manual installation
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See [docs/installation.md](docs/installation.md) for the step-by-step
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procedure for manual installation.
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## Known Issues
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- Ubuntu's Unity indicators are not supported at this time. However, if you
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whitelist 'Solaar' in the systray, you will get an icon (see
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[Enable more icons to be in the system tray?][ubuntu_systray] for details).
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[ubuntu_systray]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/30742
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- The application only looks at the first Unifying Receiver it finds, even if
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there's more than one plugged in. Support for multiple receivers is in
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progress.
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- Devices connected throught a [Nano Receiver][nano] (which is very similar to
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the Unifying Receiver) are not supported at this time.
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- Running the command-line application (`bin/solaar-cli`) while the GUI
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application is also running *may* occasionally cause either of them to become
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confused about the state of the devices. I haven't encountered this often
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enough to be able to be able to diagnose it properly yet.
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## Thanks
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This project began as a third-hand clone of [Noah K. Tilton](https://github.com/noah)'s
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logitech-solar-k750 project on GitHub (no longer available). It was developed
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further thanks to the diggings in Logitech's HID++ protocol done by many other
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people:
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- [Julien Danjou](http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2012/logitech-k750-linux-support),
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who also provided some internal
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[Logitech documentation](http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2012/logitech-unifying-upower)
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- [Lars-Dominik Braun](http://6xq.net/git/lars/lshidpp.git)
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- [Alexander Hofbauer](http://derhofbauer.at/blog/blog/2012/08/28/logitech-performance-mx)
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- [Clach04](http://bitbucket.org/clach04/logitech-unifying-receiver-tools)
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- [Peter Wu](https://lekensteyn.nl/logitech-unifying.html)
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Also thanks to Douglas Wagner, Julien Gascard and Peter Wu for helping with
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application testing and supporting new devices.
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--
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[unifying]: http://logitech.com/en-us/66/6079
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[nano]: http://logitech.com/mice-pointers/articles/5926
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