{"id":33060,"date":"2020-12-08T15:20:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33060"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:49:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:49:15","slug":"openrgb-open-source-rgb-lighting-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/openrgb-open-source-rgb-lighting-control\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenRGB &#8211; An Open Source RGB Lighting Control App for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33061\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/openrgb-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OpenRGB, formerly OpenAuraSDK, is a free open-source RGB lighting control that doesn&#8217;t depend on manufacturer software.<\/p>\n<p>OpenRGB supports ASUS, ASRock, Corsair, G.Skill, Gigabyte, HyperX, MSI, Razer, ThermalTake, and more (See <a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/CalcProgrammer1\/OpenRGB\/-\/wikis\/Supported-Devices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supported devices<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>While every manufacturer has their own app, proprietary and Windows-only, some even require online accounts, <b>OpenRGB aims to control all of your RGB devices from a single app, on both Windows and Linux.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33062\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OpenRGB_0.31_Device_View.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OpenRGB_0.31_Device_View.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/OpenRGB_0.31_Device_View-450x355.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OpenRGB features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set colors and select effect modes for a wide variety of RGB hardware<\/li>\n<li>Save and load profiles<\/li>\n<li>Control lighting from third party software using the OpenRGB SDK<\/li>\n<li>Command line interface<\/li>\n<li>Connect multiple instances of OpenRGB to synchronize lighting across multiple PCs<\/li>\n<li>Can operate standalone or in a client\/headless server configuration<\/li>\n<li>View device information<\/li>\n<li>No official\/manufacturer software required<\/li>\n<li>Graphical view of device LEDs makes creating custom patterns easy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-red\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-exclamation-triangle'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">OpenRGB interacts directly with hardware using reverse engineered protocols. It&#8217;s said that there have been two instances of hardware damage in the software development. Use it at your own risk!<\/div><\/div>\n<h3>How to Get OpenRGB:<\/h3>\n<p>The source code, Windows binary, universal Linux Appimage package, and Deb package for Ubuntu \/ Debian are available to download at the gitlab releases page:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/CalcProgrammer1\/OpenRGB\/-\/releases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download OpenRGB<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For Ubuntu users, either grab the<strong> Appimage<\/strong> package and run to open the software (after adding executable permission), or,\u00a0 download the <strong>Deb<\/strong> package (Debian Buster amd64 for 20.04 and earlier, Debian Bullseye amd64 for later) and click install via Gdebi (Gdebi is available in Ubuntu Software\/App Center) package installer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33063\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/openrgb-gdebi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/openrgb-gdebi.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/openrgb-gdebi-450x308.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<b>Optional<\/b>) To remove OpenRGB deb package, run command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">sudo apt remove --auto-remove openrgb<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenRGB, formerly OpenAuraSDK, is a free open-source RGB lighting control that doesn&#8217;t depend on manufacturer software. OpenRGB supports ASUS, ASRock, Corsair, G.Skill, Gigabyte, HyperX, MSI, Razer, ThermalTake, and more (See supported devices). While every manufacturer has their own app, proprietary and Windows-only, some even require online accounts, OpenRGB aims to control all of your RGB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2007],"class_list":["post-33060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-rgb-lighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}