System 76 Keyboard Color Shifter

Create a floating rainbow effect that moves across your keyboard!

Installation

1. Download the latest and greatest
2. Make it executable: chmod +x ./keyboard-color
3. Take it on a test drive: sudo ./keyboard-color rainbow
4. Get some help: sudo ./keyboard-color help
5. Once you've got it how you like it, run it with --install, like sudo ./keyboard-color rainbow --install
6. Profit!

Changing modes

• keyboard-color rainbow --install
• or echo yy | keyboard-color monitor --install for a non-interactive experience

Colors for monitor

• Blue: Ice cold (~0)
• Green: Moderate usage
• Yellow: Heavy usage
• Red: Extreme usage

Upgrading

Same as installation, should be smooth.

Uninstall

sudo systemctl stop keyboard-color
sudo systemctl disable keyboard-color
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/keyboard-color /etc/systemd/system/keyboard-colors.service

Contributing

The service is written in CSharp. You can do the following:

1. Create color filters (such as Hearbeat) that can post-process on whatever mode is chosen.
2. Create "sides" that operate on a single Led group independently.
3. Create monitors to operate on a specific input.
4. Keyboards tie everything together into a configuration.

Ideas

1. Change colors based on local weather and a filter for time of day.
2. Use filters to change color if ssh'd into a specific machine (say, production?).
3. Use filters to alert on emails, or other notifications.
4. Make this more pluggable.