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ASUS Aura control for RGB lighting with a Hackintosh?

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I got a start on porting OpenRGB. I stripped out the backend stuff and got the UI to start. Now I'm going for USB devices as those shouldn't be too difficult. I discovered that you can't control HID devices using libusb on Mac like you can on Windows and Linux. I installed hidapi and got my Redragon keyboard and mouse controllers working. I then tried to get the Corsair Lighting Node controller working and was able to get it to detect the presence of the device but not control it. I tried converting that code from libusb to hidapi but it still did not work. I'll look into that more soon.

Edit: Added more hidapi-supported devices - HyperX Alloy Elite and Thermaltake Poseidon Z RGB. Unfortunately the vertical tab bar looks completely messed up on MacOS and the window is much larger than it is on other OSes, but it is working.

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CalcProgrammer1 said:
I got a start on porting OpenRGB. I stripped out the backend stuff and got the UI to start. Now I'm going for USB devices as those shouldn't be too difficult. I discovered that you can't control HID devices using libusb on Mac like you can on Windows and Linux. I installed hidapi and got my Redragon keyboard and mouse controllers working. I then tried to get the Corsair Lighting Node controller working and was able to get it to detect the presence of the device but not control it. I tried converting that code from libusb to hidapi but it still did not work. I'll look into that more soon.

Edit: Added more hidapi-supported devices - HyperX Alloy Elite and Thermaltake Poseidon Z RGB. Unfortunately the vertical tab bar looks completely messed up on MacOS and the window is much larger than it is on other OSes, but it is working.

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How do we get your version?
 
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You will have to build it from source right now. If yoy want to do this, set up Qt Creator and check out the macos_devel branch of OpenRGB. You will need libusb and hidapi libraries from Homebrew installed.
 
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You will have to build it from source right now. If yoy want to do this, set up Qt Creator and check out the macos_devel branch of OpenRGB. You will need libusb and hidapi libraries from Homebrew installed.
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I have compiled openrgb but it can't see any devices. I have an Asus z390-i with t force delta rgb ram, isn't yet supported this motherboard?
 

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Barely any devices are supported right now, just a handful of keyboards and mice. I haven't started on the SMBus/i2C interface needed for motherboard and RAM.
 
Trying to compile get this:

dependencies/hidapi/hidapi.c:44:10: fatal error: 'libusb-1.0/libusb.h' file not found
#include <libusb-1.0/libusb.h>

1 error generated.
make: *** [hidapi.o] Error 1

Any help?
 
You need to install libusb and hidapi with Homebrew.
 
Hi serdeliuk, both are already installed? Still getting the error, maybe it's a path thing?
 
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