Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 2021 Linux RGB Keyboard Light Controller

Last update: Dec 16, 2022

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Overview

Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 2021 Linux RGB Keyboard Light Controller

This util allows to drive RGB keyboard light on Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 2021 Laptop

Requirements

pyusb

Install

Regular python

git clone https://github.com/imShara/l5p-kbl
cd l5p-kbl
python -m venv env
source ./env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python l5p-kbl.py --help

Archlinux

sudo pacman -Sy python-pyusb
git clone https://github.com/imShara/l5p-kbl
cd l5p-kbl
python l5p-kbl.py --help

Unprivileged usage

Add udev rule if you want to swith light as unprivileged user

# /etc/udev/rules.d/10-kblight.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="048d", ATTR{idProduct}=="c965", MODE="0666"

Reload rules

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger

Usage

Colors

I'ts possible to set color for 4 sections of keyboard separately like COLOR COLOR COLOR COLOR, but you can set single color for whole keyboard with just COLOR. Last color will be repeated for other sections.

HEX

HEX colors should be 6-digit base 16 input like ffffff

RGB

RGB colors should be 0-255 decimal values for each component, separated by comma like 255,0,127

HSV

HSV colors should be 0.0-1.0 float values for hue, saturation, value, separated by comma like 0.0,1.0,0.25

Light effect

statiс

Static color

usage: l5p_kbl.py static [-h] [--brightness {1,2}] colors [colors ...]

positional arguments:
  colors              Colors of sections

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  --brightness {1,2}  Light brightness

Turn 100% red

./l5p_kbl.py static ff0000

At full brightness, turn 100% red for 1 section, 100% green for 2 section, 100% blue for 3 section an 100% white for 4 section

./l5p_kbl.py static ff0000 00ff00 0000ff ffffff --brightness 2

Dimmed warm orange like wire heater. With HSV color input.

./l5p_kbl.py static 0.02,1,0.2

breath

Fade light in and out

usage: l5p_kbl.py breath [-h] [--brightness {1,2}] [--speed {1,2,3,4}] colors [colors ...]

positional arguments:
  colors              Colors of sections

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  --brightness {1,2}  Light brightness
  --speed {1,2,3,4}   Animation speed

Fast white blink at full brightness

./l5p_kbl.py breath ffffff --speed 4 --brightness 2

hue

Transition across hue circle. You can't set custom colors here.

usage: l5p_kbl.py hue [-h] [--brightness {1,2}] [--speed {1,2,3,4}]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  --brightness {1,2}  Light brightness
  --speed {1,2,3,4}   Animation speed

Rotate HUE slowly

./l5p_kbl.py hue --speed 1

wave

Rainbow wawe effect. Wow. Cool. Useles.

usage: l5p_kbl.py wave [-h] [--brightness {1,2}] [--speed {1,2,3,4}] {ltr,rtl}

positional arguments:
  {ltr,rtl}           Direction of wave

optional arguments:
  -h, --help          show this help message and exit
  --brightness {1,2}  Light brightness
  --speed {1,2,3,4}   Animation speed

Wheeee, left to right

./l5p_kbl.py wave ltr

Pew-pew-pew, right to left

./l5p_kbl.py wave rtl --speed 4

off

Turn light off. Nuff said.

usage: l5p_kbl.py off [-h]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit

Recommendations

Set Super+Space keystroke to turn light on and turn it off with single fn+Space press

TODO

Payload description

Device vendor = 048d, product = c965

HEADER ........... cc
HEADER ........... 16
EFFECT ........... 01 - static / 03 - breath / 04 - wave / 06 - hue
SPEED ............ 01 / 02 / 03 / 04
BRIGHTNESS ....... 01 / 02
RED SECTION 1 .... 00-ff
GREEN SECTION 1 .. 00-ff
BLUE SECTION 1 ... 00-ff
RED SECTION 2 .... 00-ff
GREEN SECTION 2 .. 00-ff
BLUE SECTION 2 ... 00-ff
RED SECTION 3 .... 00-ff
GREEN SECTION 3 .. 00-ff
BLUE SECTION 3 ... 00-ff
RED SECTION 4 .... 00-ff
GREEN SECTION 4 .. 00-ff
BLUE SECTION 4 ... 00-ff
UNUSED ........... 00
WAVE MODE RTL .... 00 / 01
WAVE MODE LTR .... 00 / 01
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00
UNUSED ........... 00

Comments

Seeking contact

Hello, I'm very sorry I'm contacting you through an issue on GitHub, but I was unable to find another way to contact you. I recently got a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro, and I'm running Linux on it. Are you also running Linux or Windows? If Linux, did you manage to get your 165Hz screen refresh rate to work? You can contact me though email at [email protected].

Thanks!!

opened by DJsushi 13
Invalid syntax

First of all, thank you for making this tool! I would love to get it to work.

But it errors when I run it. Here is an example

(env) [root@legion l5p-kbl] ./l5p_kbl.py breath ffffff --speed 4 --brightness 2 File "./l5p_kbl.py", line 118 f"Invalid RGB color model: {color}" ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
question

opened by gnomiik 4
syntax error in readme.md

README.md

All of the install command lists, have an error. the file l5p_kbl.py is wrote with a dash in the help command. I have attached a corrected readme file

opened by ravensdark 0
Support for Legion 5 15 15ARH05

The product ID is C100 but changing the value to that and running the script freezes my keyboard. What kind of information would I need to provide in order to have support for this device? The keyboard and lighting settings are exactly the same on the Lenovo Vantage software, so I would assume it's just the RGB values/formats that are different? Thanks.

opened by lvctr 3

Getting error on use

Trying to use the script on a Legion 5 15ARH05H (AMD 4800h + RTX 2060) Arch Linux. Assuming there's a driver I need to load? Getting this error.

./l5p_kbl.py static ff0000
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".../l5p-kbl/./l5p_kbl.py", line 240, in <module>
    controller = LedController()
  File ".../l5p-kbl/./l5p_kbl.py", line 63, in __init__
    raise ValueError("Light device not found")
ValueError: Light device not found

opened by robojerk 9