Motivation

There is a (Windows-only) software for controlling / setting the color modes on the Genesis Thor 300 RGB keyboard. I believe the communication protocol can be reverse engineered and an open-source variant for the accompanied software can be created and full potential of the keyboard unlocked.

Goals for this Hackweek

• understand the protocol
• learn about USB HID
• use above to create a software which will allow to switch color profiles and to set custom colors to custom keys (like in the Windows counterpart)
• optional: include macro creation / key remapping
• publish the code on GitHub, create a package in OBS
• optional: integrate support for this keyboard into OpenRGB

Resources

• https://github.com/baierjan/mjolnir
• https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:jbaier_cz/mjolnir
• https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1/OpenRGB/-/merge_requests/1293