In-Development Reactive Lighting For Elite Dangerous

HectorBart · Nov 29, 2018

I have been working on a program that reacts LIFX and Chroma RGB lights to ED events, still in development as I would like to add support for Philips Hue and Corsair keyboards and many more lighting effects.

You can try it out here: https://github.com/HectorBart/Elite-Dangerous-LIFX-Chroma-Integration

I would welcome any suggestions and new ideas!

Thanks

rootsrat · Nov 29, 2018

This looks interesting! I have a Corsair RGB keyboard with Elite theme I made for myself, but I'd love to try this!

HectorBart · Nov 29, 2018

rootsrat said:
This looks interesting! I have a Corsair RGB keyboard with Elite theme I made for myself, but I'd love to try this!

I hope to add support for Cosair keyboards eventually, however I don't currently have any hardware to test on. If you have any programming experience I would love to see it working though!

rootsrat · Nov 30, 2018

HectorBart said:
I hope to add support for Cosair keyboards eventually, however I don't currently have any hardware to test on. If you have any programming experience I would love to see it working though!

I wish! I know some basic Python, but that's about it

Toumal · Nov 30, 2018

Very cool! You could take a look at https://github.com/Toumal/EliteDMX maybe there's some ideas for you there (scripting, dmx, etc)

HectorBart · Nov 30, 2018

Toumal said:
Very cool! You could take a look at https://github.com/Toumal/EliteDMX maybe there's some ideas for you there (scripting, dmx, etc)

Thanks! This looks interesting - I will take a look...

HectorBart · Nov 30, 2018

HectorBart said:
I have been working on a program that reacts LIFX and Chroma RGB lights to ED events, still in development as I would like to add support for Philips Hue and Corsair keyboards and many more lighting effects.

You can try it out here: https://github.com/HectorBart/Elite-Dangerous-LIFX-Chroma-Integration

I would welcome any suggestions and new ideas!

Thanks

Have just updated the files to the latest working(ish) versions. I have included a lot more lighting effects, here is a full list:

Red flashing - When under attack, taking hull damage, taking heat damage and when there is a heat warning
Orange - When shields are offline
Dim white - Default, just when you're flying around
Bright white - When docked at a station
Single green flash - When a docking request is granted or you achieve a kill

I have also separated the lighting effects from the main script so it should be easier for me to add support for more lights.

There are still plenty of bugs and many more features I want to add, but I will keep working on it and welcome all ideas and suggestions!

amcb10 · Dec 29, 2018

I have a Corsair KB and it would be good if you can get it to work with it.

HectorBart · Dec 29, 2018

I have not actually got one to test on yet but may be able to get access to one in the next couple of months. I would definitely like to add this as a feature though. Thanks for checking it out!

HectorBart · Jan 19, 2019

amcb10 said:
I have a Corsair KB and it would be good if you can get it to work with it.

I have not actually got one to test on yet but may be able to get access to one in the next couple of months. I would definitely like to add this as a feature though. Thanks for checking it out!

amcb10 · Jan 20, 2019

Not sure why you repeated your previous message, I thought you had sorted it....

HectorBart · Feb 10, 2019

Hello everyone, apologies for it being a while since the last update.
Unfortunately, for the foreseeable future, I am not going to be able to get my hands on a Corsair keyboard for testing. I have been looking at software to control their lighting and do think that it's possible to add this as a feature. I would love to do so but I would need someone who owns a Corsair Cue 2 SDK compatible keyboard to test my Python scripts. If you would be willing to do so please let me know!

Thanks

amcb10 · Feb 10, 2019

HectorBart said:
Hello everyone, apologies for it being a while since the last update.
Unfortunately, for the foreseeable future, I am not going to be able to get my hands on a Corsair keyboard for testing. I have been looking at software to control their lighting and do think that it's possible to add this as a feature. I would love to do so but I would need someone who owns a Corsair Cue 2 SDK compatible keyboard to test my Python scripts. If you would be willing to do so please let me know!

Thanks

Hi, I have a Corsair K95 and wouldn't mind testing.

amcb10 · Feb 23, 2019

Any news?

HectorBart · Feb 23, 2019

amcb10 said:
Any news?

Sorry, been busy lately. Thanks for agreeing to test the program. I will let you know when I have a new version to be tested soon and what you will need to do. Thanks again and sorry for not replying sooner.

HectorBart · May 6, 2019

New update time!
The latest update aims to improve how user-friendly the program is. You no longer need to open ED and then open the program, you can simply fire up the program, click the big button on the new GUI and then open ED. I have also added a config.py file that contains variables for all the things you might need to change, meaning you don't need to go into the various Python scripts.

If you do download it, you may notice references to Corsair Cue and Philips Hue. These are not yet supported but I plan to add them in the future. I haven't forgotten all of you Corsair keyboard users!

As always, any suggestions and feedback are welcome. Enjoy!

CMD FrenaX · Jun 21, 2020

Hi Hector!

Just got a brand new K70 MK2 and did all the installing, just noticed I was using iCUE and not CUE 1 / 2. Is there any way in the current release to make it work ? In the config.py, CUESDK.x64_2013.dll isn't on my PC since I'am using iCUE.

Thanks in advance