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.

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    FYI with ASUS AURA 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.

    • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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.

      • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        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.

        • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Sure, but my point was the ASUS crapware seems to be able to control the RAM and GPU, while the ASUS BIOS doesn’t. It would be nice if you could get equivalent functionality from both, but I guess supporting the various different schemes in the BIOS is asking too much from such limited storage space. I installed OpenRGB as I hadn’t bothered to install the ASUS Aura software since my most recent reinstall and it seems to be able to handle everything on its own. Based on its output it looks like it’s using AMD SMBus to control the RAM and GPU, and the ASUS Aura USB driver for the motherboard, which is fascinating as AMD SMBus apparently exposes I2C devices, something I wasn’t aware it was capable of.

    • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      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.