Control brightness for mono color keyword

[abs0lom]

Hey !

When I use your tool, the color don't change.
I used the command with brightness argument like this :

sudo msiklm green high

but nothing happen...

My test output :

$ sudo msiklm test
Compatible keyboard found!

And my list output :

Device: MSI EPF USB
    Device Vendor ID:        6000
    Device Product ID:       65280
    Device Serial Number:    MSI EPF USB
    Device Manufacturer:     MSI EPF USB
    Device Path:             0001:0003:00
    Device Interface Number: 0
    Device Release Number:   272

Device: USB Receiver
    Device Vendor ID:        1133
    Device Product ID:       50484
    Device Serial Number:    (null)
    Device Manufacturer:     Logitech
    Device Path:             0001:0002:00
    Device Interface Number: 0
    Device Release Number:   10496

Device: USB Receiver
    Device Vendor ID:        1133
    Device Product ID:       50484
    Device Serial Number:    (null)
    Device Manufacturer:     Logitech
    Device Path:             0001:0002:01
    Device Interface Number: 1
    Device Release Number:   10496

I don't know how keyboard work, and I hope that you can help me :)

Thank you for your great job !

[Gibtnix]

Maybe your keyboard is not supported at all... you could try to use without the high argument (i.e. only 'sudo msiklm green') because this uses a different command to set the color. If this does not work, too, then your keyboard maybe is simply not supported. Which notebook type are you using?

[abs0lom]

Hum... nop, the command don't work even without the argument.
My laptop is a MSI - GP62 6QE

[abs0lom]

My bad, i don't think the color change indeed...

on the SteelSeries single color backlighting keyboard

Sorry for that

[Gibtnix]

No problem at all, at least it should be worth a try if enabling / disabling the illumination works... 👍

[abs0lom]

after many test, no change.
tested :
sudo msiklm <color> <brightness>
sudo msiklm <color> <brightness> <mode>

But, control brightness with command line interest me.
Do you know where can I find info on that?

[Gibtnix]

As it seems, there is no direct way how to use msiklm for this, at least at the moment. It generally would be possible if a) the command structure is known and b) how to detect the appropriate command structure for the currently detected keyboard. The 'test' option only checks if a device with matching IDs is found... To support your keyboard I need to know these two things (however the second could be fixed by a define, too, but I'd prefer a dynamic detection here).