rogdrv

rogdrv is a simple ASUS ROG (Republic of Gamers) userspace mouse driver for Linux. The mouse is a composite device which consists of 3 interfaces: mouse, keyboard and consumer control (for changing the mouse settings).

The keyboard interface for some devices is unsupported on Linux, but it's recognised as HID device. So this driver maps HID events to the generic keyboard events.

The protocol was reverse-engineered, so everything is experimental. Use at your own risk.

Alternative solutions

Keyboard events handling module

HID kernel module - hid-asus-mouse

Mouse configuration tool

piper

with

libratbag (fork, not merged yet into upstream)

Current missing features:

Button response
Angle snapping
Extra LED modes
Key binding
Sleep timeout

Supported devices and features

Device name	Profiles	Button Bindings	Performance Settings	LEDs	Sleep
Buzzard	+	?	?	?	N/A
Gladius II	+	+	+	+	N/A
Gladius II Origin	+	+	+	+	N/A
Gladius II Origin PNK LTD	+	+	+	+	N/A
Keris Wireless	+	+	+	+	+
Chakram	+	?	+	+	+
Pugio	+	+	+	+	N/A
Strix Carry	+	+	+	N/A	+
Strix Impact II Wireless	+	+	+	+	?
Strix Impact	N/A	?	?	+	N/A

Profiles - Profile switching feature
Button Bindings - Buttons binding feature
Performance Settings - DPI, polling rate, buttons response, angle snapping configuration feature
LEDs - LED color customization feature
Sleep - Sleep timeout setting feature for the wireless mices

There is a chance that a driver can be compatible with other mouse devices from ASUS ROG (Republic of Gamers) series.

Unsupported devices

Those devices are from the same generation and they are based on the same ASUS hardware which is not compatible with hid-generic linux driver.

You can check it with:

LIBUSB_DEBUG=9 sudo -E lsusb -v -d 0b05:<mouse product ID>

There would be no Consumer Control interface in the device descriptor which means they are not compatible. It would report only Mouse and Keyboard interfaces.

Spatha
Gladius
Strix Evolve

Requirements

Common requirements

python >= 3.0
python-evdev
gir-appindicator3

HID requirements

Only single one of it is required

python3-hid
python3-hidapi
hid from PyPi (could fail to find devices, not recommended!)

Ubuntu:

apt install python3-hidapi python3-evdev gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1

Installation

Userspace driver installation:

sudo python3 setup.py install

sudo pip3 install .

You need r/w permissions for /dev/hidrawX file of your mouse.

You can solve this by installing a custom udev rules:

sudo ./install_udev
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger

Using

Userspace driver consists of 2 programs: rogdrv and rogdrv-config

rogdrv is a virtual uinput device driver which converts mouse events into uinput events.

Usage: rogdrv [--debug] [--console]
  --help - display help
  --debug - debug mode
  --console - starts in pure console mode, disables tray icon

rogdrv-config is a mouse configuration tool.

Usage:
  rogdrv-config <command> --help - display help for a command
  rogdrv-config <command> [--debug] [args] - run a command

Available commands:
  rogdrv-config actions - display list of available action codes
  rogdrv-config bind - bind a button or display current bindings
  rogdrv-config color - get/set LED colors
  rogdrv-config dpi - get/set DPI
  rogdrv-config dump - dump settings to stdout or .json file
  rogdrv-config load - load settings from .json file
  rogdrv-config profile - get/set profile
  rogdrv-config rate - get/set polling rate
  rogdrv-config response - get/set button response
  rogdrv-config sleep - get/set sleep timeout and battery alert level
  rogdrv-config snapping - enable/disable snapping
  rogdrv-config version - get device firmware version