Controlling rgb lighting

ginjaninja · 17 Apr 2024 at 16:49

I uninstalled armour crate within 5 minutes, it felt cumbersome and slow to me...

Mcnumpty2323 · 17 Apr 2024 at 16:51

ginjaninja said:
I uninstalled armour crate within 5 minutes, it felt cumbersome and slow to me...

Yeah must admit I hate it
But I need it just for the oled display on my motherboard

Scarfacé · 17 Apr 2024 at 16:52

I use OpenRGB, I have setup a scheduled task to close it 1 minute after logging into Windows, it sets the RGB and then maintains it even after closing, which is nice as I don't have to have anything related to RGB running in the background

Scarfacé · 17 Apr 2024 at 16:56

Oh but I unfortunately do have to run iCUE along side it for my AIO display. Agree about armoury crate, avoid unless absolutely necessary imo, which unfortunately it kind of is for a lot of their laptops. Really annoys me that Asus put a default setting in the BIOS to automatically install it, which you have to remember to disable after each BIOS update! It's the same on my Asus motherboard...

ginjaninja · 17 Apr 2024 at 17:01

just tried signal rgb over open rgb. Signal RGB is more polished for sure..have reverted to open rgb for now for its low footprint and simplicity..and open rgb doesnt want to advertise to me..

ginjaninja · 17 Apr 2024 at 17:02

Scarfacé said:
I use OpenRGB, I have setup a scheduled task to close it 1 minute after logging into Windows, it sets the RGB and then maintains it even after closing, which is nice as I don't have to have anything related to RGB running in the background

could you share your scheduled task code please..i would like to do this too.

Mcnumpty2323 · 17 Apr 2024 at 17:07

I don't get adverts from signal rgb
But yeah for what you want
No need to use a more complex software
Icue might work at same time as signal rgb
Probably just have to tell signal rgb not to close icue
If signal rgb finds a conflicting software
It will pop up asking what you want to do about it
Pretty sure there's an ignore this option

ginjaninja · 17 Apr 2024 at 17:16

Mcnumpty2323 said:
I don't get adverts from signal rgb

no it didnt deliver adverts...but it took me longer to turn off all the consents to give away my data to advertise to me, than to install it.

Scarfacé · 17 Apr 2024 at 17:23

ginjaninja said:
could you share your scheduled task code please..i would like to do this too.

I was going to paste the exported xml here but not sure if it would easily transfer over as some of the tags in the code appears unique to my machine (e.g. windows UserID)

I have it configured as following in task scheduler to kill the process 1 minute after logging in. Obviously just set OpenRGB to automatically start on boot and set the correct profile. Let me know if it doesn't work for you and I'll look at the XML route again or maybe screenshots...

General: 'Run only when user is logged on'

Trigger: At log on of any user
Action: Start a program
Delay task for 1 minute

Program/script: taskkill

Add arguments: /f /im "OpenRGB.exe"

ginjaninja · 17 Apr 2024 at 17:30

Scarfacé said:
I was going to paste the exported xml here but not sure if it would easily transfer over as some of the tags in the code appears unique to my machine (e.g. windows UserID)

I have it configured as following in task scheduler to kill the process 1 minute after logging in. Obviously just set OpenRGB to automatically start on boot and set the correct profile. Let me know if it doesn't work for you and I'll look at the XML route again or maybe screenshots...

General: 'Run only when user is logged on'

Trigger: At log on of any user
Action: Start a program
Delay task for 1 minute

Program/script: taskkill

Add arguments: /f /im "OpenRGB.exe"

thanks that worked like a charm.