Reactive effect with a base color about polychromatic HOT 18 OPEN

DaemonV2 would be able to do this, I actually had this exact idea ha. Once I've got the daemon working in a stable manner then I'll go about making an API so that effects can be added easily.

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I would love this!

I want my keys on low brightness and add reactive/ripple effect on key press.

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https://gist.github.com/bluzukk/2f5ce1d21bcafbf6dd70d0b8f95a30f1

This solves this issue using a python script.

How do you run the python script?

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Do you mean setting the colour when the keys are pressed?

If so, it is already supported in the Controller and Tray Applet (by setting the colour first):

Or are you referring to setting a "reactive" colour effect for profiles? If so, that's probably quite a while off yet -- it needs to be supported in the driver's daemon (or @terrycain's version 2, still in development) before the GUI.

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No, I guess not.
If I turn on the reactive effect, the keyboard LED's are off and only glow if i hit a key..
What i mean is, that the all keys LED's are activated and if press a key, it would change to a different color for a short time.

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Ahh, I see what you mean. This would have to be a software effect implemented in the driver's daemon first (@terrycain's v.2 daemon would be good for this, like the ripple effect) before the GUI can make use of it.

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There was also an effect in the old driver by default my keyboard would have a sort of heat map of where I had typed; is this not being in the controller a limitation of the new daemon?

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Not so much a limitation, the daemon is more than capable, more I haven't got round to adding it as I want to make it so its easy to add various effects

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Thanks for the update

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Hi! Any update on this? I'd love to be able to set the base color for the reactive keys.

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Hi. The daemon still isn't ready for custom effects yet, as it's been on hold for improved macro support at the moment.

As soon as the daemon supports it, then Polychromatic will need to work on integrating support for custom effects (hopefully with an easy interface for designing them too!)... plus this one will need to be created, which should be fairly easy apparently. 👌

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I would also love ripple with a static background, that's what I run on Windows. I'm looking forward to the custom effects!

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Bump for an update?

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It's fair to say I have no idea on the progress at daemon-level. About this effect, I've been told by @terrycain :

In custom lighting there's probs functionality to do it

So I guess if someone wishes to create a Python script that produces this effect, please go for it -- this is daemon-level stuff, independent to Polychromatic. It's going to be a long while before I get round to figuring this out.

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still no update?

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3 years is a long time - OpenRazer does have an API that makes it possible to write an effect like this in conjunction with another library to detect key presses.

The current situation is that Polychromatic v1.0.0 will introduce a new effects engine, but won't support custom interactivity for the moment. When key rebinding is supported in a future release, then this will provide the knowledge to support interactive effect layers - such as this reactive effect with a static colour underneath.

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https://gist.github.com/bluzukk/2f5ce1d21bcafbf6dd70d0b8f95a30f1

This solves this issue using a python script.

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How do you run the python script?

Download and run it from the Terminal, for example:

wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bluzukk/2f5ce1d21bcafbf6dd70d0b8f95a30f1/raw/d319aa76836553a9f611bd6ce18516a0d1efeb3c/keyboard.py
chmod +x ./keyboard.py
python ./keyboard.py

You may need to install a package along the lines of python-pynput (or equivalent) if available for your Linux distribution. It can also be installed using pip install pynput (or it might be pip3, provided in python-pip)

Once you get the script running, then you could add the script to your desktop's "Start-up Applications" or "Autostart" so it automatically runs at login.

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