The issue with RGB lights on keyboards, mice, and different gadgets is that you simply normally want third-party apps to use settings… that are virtually all the time buggy or convoluted. Microsoft is making an attempt to repair that with a brand new Home windows 11 function.
Twitter consumer Albacore noticed a brand new function in Home windows 11 that hasn’t been formally introduced but: a brand new “Lighting” part within the Settings app. It shows a listing of linked gadgets which can be detected to assist some type of gentle controls, with a toggle to show lights on and off. There are additionally settings for adjusting the brightness, gentle impact, impact velocity, and colour. Microsoft even added a toggle to match the lights to the present Home windows accent colour.
That is thrilling information as a result of most purposes constructed for controlling RGB lights and different settings on PC equipment, like Razer Synapse or Logitech G Hub, are actually unhealthy. Lots of them are gradual, buggy, or take up system assets should you go away them working within the background. Razer’s software program really required you to create a web-based account simply to configure settings, till the company finally changed course in 2019.
The catch is that every accent has to assist this methodology of management, which seems to be utilizing a USB specification that Microsoft developed in 2018. It’s not clear which gadgets assist the required USB function, and even which producers can be keen on permitting the function. Third-party controller software program prices money and time for every producer to keep up, however they’ll open the door to information assortment, push notifications, or different performance that’s priceless to firms like Logitech and Razer.
It’s potential Microsoft might accomplice with producers to make the function extra extensively accessible, or possibly even assist lights constructed into the pc — for instance, RGB keyboards on gaming laptops. We’ll have to attend and see.
Supply: Albacore (Twitter)
