Razer Chroma RGB hub - all LEDs white

[WTF Herron]

When I select a wallpaper like Razer Bedroom all of fans/strips attached to my Razer Chroma RGB hub are light blue/white. I've tried uninstalling everything and reinstalling and it always behaves the same.

Some other wallpapers do display colors but generally speaking the RGB performance is not nearly as impressive as my friends who are also using wallpaper engine. Any suggestions on what to try?

[WTF Herron]

Sorry, posted in the wrong discussion board. Can an admin move to problem solving?

[Biohazard]

Try closing Wallpaper Engine fully from the tray menu, then completely uninstall Razer Synapse and Chroma, then reinstall both Synapse and Chroma before starting Wallpaper Engine. This is the only way to make sure that all Chroma components are up to date.

If that also doesn't help, what does the "Neon Sunset" wallpaper look like? There should be blue/purple and yellow in the top center on the keyboard, but no white at all.

The Razer bedroom wallpaper doesn't project the wallpaper unlike most others, it uses a simple scrolling rainbow. There is no white though, only fully saturated colors.

[WTF Herron]

Okay I followed the instructions provided and it's not just white. Now it kind of slowly rotates between yellow and blue/green below is a short video link. I don't think this is the intended effect is it?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/HE4hTFeFRWPCUyN69

[Biohazard]

Do you have any devices that are fully mapped? I don't think any internal devices are fully mapped by the Chroma SDK. iCUE does map the LEDs of internal devices, although the layout is arbitrary, but Razer Chroma does not map them and the application does not even know about their existence.

Chroma should be mapping keyboards, mice, mousepad LEDs. These would be more obvious to check.

[WTF Herron]

Yes my Razer mouse is reacting as expected. The LEDs connected through Mystic light (GPU, water-cooler block) and fans connected to the chroma hub do not react as expected.

That said if I disable wallpaper engine and apply a generic Razer theme like breathing all of the LEDs light appropriately.

[Biohazard]

Lithium の投稿を引用：

Yes my Razer mouse is reacting as expected. The LEDs connected through Mystic light (GPU, water-cooler block) and fans connected to the chroma hub do not react as expected.

Alright, maybe it's just that the unmapped devices don't look great since they are so abstract to Wallpaper Engine. Like I explained, they only have a single color and I believe it's currently just an average, so perhaps that's why those look bad.

Extracting an accent color would be possible, but this would not work well on all wallpapers either, so I don't think that this would work. What we could most likely do is taking an average or an accent color only from a small section in the center to get a better result.

Lithium の投稿を引用：

That said if I disable wallpaper engine and apply a generic Razer theme like breathing all of the LEDs light appropriately.

Does Razer Synapse itself support any effects that set different colors per LED or do you see the same limitations there? (As in, all non-Razer devices only have a single color at a time.) This is just out of curiosity, since Wallpaper Engine wouldn't be able to do that.

[WTF Herron]

I appreciate the assistance. What I'm struggling with is how to switch the fans/strips from unmapped to mapped. When I look in Synapse everything looks like it is recognized properly.

https://imgur.com/cDnA9g6

The generic Synapse effects are all the same color for every LED but if I install Synapse Studio I can set each LED in the fan a different color and use that effect and it works as expected. That is what I was doing prior to trying Wallpaper engine. (I got tired of always having the same LED effects)

[Biohazard]

Lithium の投稿を引用：

I appreciate the assistance. What I'm struggling with is how to switch the fans/strips from unmapped to mapped.

Thanks for the screenshot, yes, looks like Razer Synapse can actually differentiate each individual LED then for the fans/strips at least.

The terms mapped/unmapped are just made up by me. The Chroma SDK can differentiate each individual LED of Razer's own basic peripherals, but not from anything else, especially not for devices connected through other manufacturers (i.e. Mystic Light). Even the RGB controller from your screenshot doesn't allow us to set colors for its individual LEDs.

I think we can improve the single selected color for those devices, but unfortunately it won't be possible to control each LED. First Razer would have to update the Chroma SDK to give us the same access that they have directly.

It's just a guess, but the reason may be that the RGB controller itself animates the LEDs and not Synapse, so it's limited to presets/animations embedded in the controller. This could be a bandwidth limitation and would explain why Razer wouldn't be able to give us more access at least in this specific case.

[WTF Herron]

So if I were to replace my Razer hub with an Icue hub would I be in the same boat? Or does their SDK offer more granular control?

[Biohazard]

Lithium の投稿を引用：

So if I were to replace my Razer hub with an Icue hub would I be in the same boat? Or does their SDK offer more granular control?

Yes, their controller does allow Wallpaper Engine to animate lights individually based on the wallpaper image.

I haven't used it myself, so I can't really explain a lot of details, but as far as I know, Corsair packs all these special devices together on a grid and we can "map" this grid to the wallpaper then. I'm not sure if you can control where each device goes on that grid or if there are limitations to how many LEDs can be controlled, but I believe your numbers should not be close to any limits.

The previous version of iCUE had a test suite built-in where we could test connected fans like that, the current version unfortunately lacks this - as far as I know.

[WTF Herron]

Thanks for your help. I hate that Razer is failing me here but it's a relatively minor expense to have more flexibility.

[Testkill]

Biohazard の投稿を引用：

Lithium の投稿を引用：

I appreciate the assistance. What I'm struggling with is how to switch the fans/strips from unmapped to mapped.

Thanks for the screenshot, yes, looks like Razer Synapse can actually differentiate each individual LED then for the fans/strips at least.

The terms mapped/unmapped are just made up by me. The Chroma SDK can differentiate each individual LED of Razer's own basic peripherals, but not from anything else, especially not for devices connected through other manufacturers (i.e. Mystic Light). Even the RGB controller from your screenshot doesn't allow us to set colors for its individual LEDs.

I think we can improve the single selected color for those devices, but unfortunately it won't be possible to control each LED. First Razer would have to update the Chroma SDK to give us the same access that they have directly.

It's just a guess, but the reason may be that the RGB controller itself animates the LEDs and not Synapse, so it's limited to presets/animations embedded in the controller. This could be a bandwidth limitation and would explain why Razer wouldn't be able to give us more access at least in this specific case.

Yeah and you can individually "program" each led (very limited though using their preset animations (stackable), no actual proper custom code)

Why is there no usart arduino or esp plugin yet :(. No way i'm buying another €40 argb controller, they're overpriced AF while a cheap €4 esp can do the same with even more control.

[Testkill]

Biohazard の投稿を引用：

Lithium の投稿を引用：

So if I were to replace my Razer hub with an Icue hub would I be in the same boat? Or does their SDK offer more granular control?

Yes, their controller does allow Wallpaper Engine to animate lights individually based on the wallpaper image.

I haven't used it myself, so I can't really explain a lot of details, but as far as I know, Corsair packs all these special devices together on a grid and we can "map" this grid to the wallpaper then. I'm not sure if you can control where each device goes on that grid or if there are limitations to how many LEDs can be controlled, but I believe your numbers should not be close to any limits.

The previous version of iCUE had a test suite built-in where we could test connected fans like that, the current version unfortunately lacks this - as far as I know.

Holdup, I just remembered something: FF15's Chroma support does individually adress the razer argb controller's led, so the api must be able to do it.

[Biohazard]

Testkill の投稿を引用：

Holdup, I just remembered something: FF15's Chroma support does individually adress the razer argb controller's led, so the api must be able to do it.

Could be a private plugin/API between Microsoft and Razer or they're just controlling the built-in presets/effects somehow.