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78 lines
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**Solaar** is a Linux device manager for Logitech's
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[Unifying Receiver](http://www.logitech.com/en-us/66/6079) peripherals.
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It comes in two flavours, 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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## Requirements
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You should have a reasonably new kernel (3.2+), with the `logitech-djreceiver`
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driver enabled and loaded; also, the `udev` package must be installed and the
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daemon running. If you have a modern Linux distribution (2011+), you're most
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likely good to go.
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The command-line application (`bin/solaar-cli`) requires Python 2.7.3 or 3.2+
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(either version should work), and the `python-pyudev`/`python3-pyudev` package.
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The GUI application (`bin/solaar`) also requires Gtk3, and its GObject
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Introspection bindings. The Debian/Ubuntu package names are
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`python-gi`/`python3-gi` and `gir1.2-gtk-3.0`; if you're using another
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distribution the required packages are most likely named something similar.
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If the desktop notifications bindings are also installed (`gir1.2-notify-0.7`),
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you will also get desktop notifications when devices come online/go offline.
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## Installation
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Normally USB devices are not accessible for r/w by regular users, so you will
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need to do a one-time udev rule installation to allow access to the Logitech
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Unifying Receiver.
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You can run the `rules.d/install.sh` script from Solaar to do this installation
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(it will switch to root when necessary), or you can do all the required steps by
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hand, as the root user:
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- copy `rules.d/99-logitech-unfiying-receiver.rules` from Solaar to
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`/etc/udev/rules.d/`
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By default, the rule makes the Unifying Receiver device available for r/w by
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all users belonging to the `plugdev` system group (standard Debian/Ubuntu
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group for pluggable devices). It may need changes, specific to your
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particular system's configuration. If in doubt, replacing `GROUP="plugdev"`
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with `GROUP="<your username>"` should just work.
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- run `udevadm control --reload-rules` to let the udev daemon know about the new
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rule
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- physically remove the Unifying Receiver, wait 10 seconds and re-insert it
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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. Depending on the
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device, it may be able to read its battery status. Changing various settings
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of the devices (like mouse DPI) is currently not supported, but implementation
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is planned.
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The [K750 Solar Keyboard](http://www.logitech.com/keyboards/keyboard/devices/7454)
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is also queried for its solar charge status. Pressing the Solar key on the
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keyboard will pop-up the application window and display the current lighting
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value, similar to Logitech's Solar app for Windows.
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Extended support for other devices will be added in the future, depending on the
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documentation available, but the K750 keyboard is the only device I have and can
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test on right now.
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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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