g19 keyboard backlighting and repeater profile colours

[DamnataAnimus]

Hi,

So, I am attempting to setup my g19 keyboard backlighting to change colour when I enable mouse or key cloning. I have found the setting for this, it lets m e choose between colours I have already setup depending on which macro set is enabled. So far so good.

The problem is despite what I set in the isboxer control panel the colours dont change no matter what I choose. It lets me choose from the 4 colours you can define for each macro set/macro recording which I have set to different colours. Eg I have macro set 2 colour as blue. macro set 1 is green macro recording colour you cant change but that is orange. I usually use macro set 1 which is green, so I told isboxer to change the colour when I enable broadcasting to macro set 2 which is blue. I export to innerspace and try it out but they keyboard backlighting does not change. What am I doing wrong here? :p

Here is a paste of the relevant isboxer section :

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Box xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <ObjectType>ISBoxer_Toolkit.Configs.RepeaterProfile</ObjectType>
  <SerializedObject>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;RepeaterProfile xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"&gt;
  &lt;Name&gt;Default&lt;/Name&gt;
  &lt;Description /&gt;
  &lt;RepeaterTarget&gt;all other&lt;/RepeaterTarget&gt;
  &lt;BlockLocal&gt;false&lt;/BlockLocal&gt;
  &lt;MuteCursorWhenForeground&gt;true&lt;/MuteCursorWhenForeground&gt;
  &lt;KeyRepeatEnabled&gt;true&lt;/KeyRepeatEnabled&gt;
  &lt;MouseRepeatEnabled&gt;true&lt;/MouseRepeatEnabled&gt;
  &lt;MouseTransformMode&gt;None&lt;/MouseTransformMode&gt;
  &lt;WhiteOrBlackList /&gt;
  &lt;WhiteOrBlackListType&gt;Ignore&lt;/WhiteOrBlackListType&gt;
  &lt;CursorColorMask&gt;
    &lt;Red&gt;255&lt;/Red&gt;
    &lt;Green&gt;255&lt;/Green&gt;
    &lt;Blue&gt;255&lt;/Blue&gt;
    &lt;Alpha&gt;255&lt;/Alpha&gt;
  &lt;/CursorColorMask&gt;
  &lt;MouseLight&gt;M3&lt;/MouseLight&gt;
  &lt;KeyboardLight&gt;M2&lt;/KeyboardLight&gt;
  &lt;FalseCursor&gt;true&lt;/FalseCursor&gt;
  &lt;CursorFeed&gt;false&lt;/CursorFeed&gt;
  &lt;CursorFeedSourceSize&gt;
    &lt;Width&gt;0&lt;/Width&gt;
    &lt;Height&gt;0&lt;/Height&gt;
  &lt;/CursorFeedSourceSize&gt;
  &lt;CursorFeedOutputSize&gt;
    &lt;Width&gt;0&lt;/Width&gt;
    &lt;Height&gt;0&lt;/Height&gt;
  &lt;/CursorFeedOutputSize&gt;
  &lt;CursorFeedAlpha&gt;0&lt;/CursorFeedAlpha&gt;
  &lt;VideoFXAlwaysAffectsBroadcasting&gt;true&lt;/VideoFXAlwaysAffectsBroadcasting&gt;
&lt;/RepeaterProfile&gt;</SerializedObject>
</Box>


[bob]

Don't quote me on this, but I'm fairly sure those settings are for enabling the lights behind the named keys (MR/M1/M2/M3), and not going to press them for you or run any macros behind them, and thus switch the macro set over. You also have to consider that it does point out G15/G11 keyboard, and not G19.

Without any changes, the way I would do it, is to have the Logitech software configured to swap the macro sets over on the M1/M2 keys, and then in ISBoxer also configure the enabling of key/mouse broadcasting to use the M1/M2 keys as the hotkeys. You will need the Logitech software running as Admin for it to work. This way, you press the hotkey, and in theory, both things run.

In the longer term, it would require an update to ISBoxer/Inner Space to use the newer Logitech APIs for the G19, and even then it may not work as you want it to due to limitations on the G19 (the fancy features on mine have died so I cannot verify). The newer Orion, Atlas, Prodigy keyboards would work if the API was supported as they have lighting that is not tied to a macro set. It would be nice if a number of the gaming keyboards were supported, but so far the demand has been low putting it way down the priority list.

[DamnataAnimus]

Ah I see. I didn't actually want it to run macros, just change the colour of the backlighting based on if broadcasting was on or off which what you suggested should accomplish. Thank you once again for your help.