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OpenRGB gets greatly expanded hardware support in the 0.7 release
Liam Dawe • news.movim.eu / GamingOnLinux • 3 January, 2022 • 2 minutes
Controlling all your fancy RGB lighting on Linux can sometimes be a hassle but OpenRGB thankfully can reduce that pain and a new release is out now with OpenRGB 0.7 . Since every vendor decides to have their own applications, usually proprietary and Windows-only, OpenRGB is becoming something of an essential item if you want to control your hardware on Linux since it's vendor agnostic.
New features includes:
- Improved plugin architecture - Plugins can now be easily installed from Settings and are versioned to ensure compatibility.
- Plugins include effects engine, E1.31 receiver, visual map editor, and more.
- Settings tabs for various configurable features so you don't have to manually edit settings file
- E1.31 Devices
- Serial Devices
- QMK OpenRGB Protocol
- Philips Hue
- Philips Wiz
- Yeelight
- Log console
- Log console can be enabled in settings, allows to view the log in the GUI under Information
- Save To Device
- On supported controllers, the Save To Device button allows you to save the selected mode and color configuration to device internal memory
- Brightness Control
- On supported controllers, you can adjust the brightness with the Brightness slider
- Autostart Settings
- Configure OpenRGB to automatically start on login in the Settings tab
- Configure auto-start options such as start server, load profile, and more
- Zone resize dialog prompts users to resize uninitialized zero-size zones
There's a big list of new / improved hardware support too as of this release including:
- Additional GPUs added to detection list from Gigabyte, ASUS, MSI, EVGA, Sapphire, and more
- Additional MSI Mystic Light motherboards tested and added
- Logitech mouse issues from 0.6 have been fixed
- Logitech G213 keyboard modes
- Philips Hue (normal and Entertainment mode) support
- Corsair Commander Core
- HyperX Alloy Origins Core
- Alienware G5 SE
- ASUS ROG Pugio and general improvements for ASUS mice
- ASUS ROG Throne headset stand
- ASUS ROG Strix Scope
- Additional Razer devices added to Razer Controller
- Obinslab Anne Pro 2
- ASUS Aura SMBus controller renamed to ENE SMBus controller and expanded
- Conflict with Crucial DRAM fixed
- ASUS 3xxx GPU support added, these GPUs use an ENE controller
- XPG Spectrix S40G NVMe SSD (ENE controller), requires running as Administrator/root
- HP Omen 30L
- Cooler Master RGB Controller
- Cooler Master ARGB Controller direct mode
- Wooting keyboard improvements
- Blinkinlabs BlinkyTape
- Alienware AW510K Keyboard
- Corsair K100 keyboard
- SteelSeries Rival 600
- SteelSeries Rival 7x0
- Logitech G915, G915 TKL
- Logitech G Pro
- Sinowealth 0016 keyboard
- Fix HyperX device flickering, especially HyperX FPS RGB
- Re-enable all Crucial DRAM addresses, should fix missing Crucial detection
- Gigabyte RGB Fusion 2 GPUs
- EVGA 3xxx GPUs
- EVGA KINGPIN 1080Ti and 1080 FTW2
- ASUS Strix Evolve mouse
- MSI GPU direct mode
As of this release, it's also now available as a Flatpak from Flathub for cross-distro support.