Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
  • Eruption - Realtime RGB LED Software for Linux
    • Gallery
  • Device Compatibility
    • Keyboards
    • Mice
    • Miscellaneous Devices
  • Important Information
  • Design Overview
    • Introduction
    • Systems Architecture
  • Installation
    • Arch Linux and derivatives like ArcoLinux or Manjaro
    • Fedora based
    • Ubuntu or Pop!_OS
    • From Source
  • After Setup
    • Support for Audio Playback and Capture
  • The eruption-audio-proxy Daemon
  • The eruption-process-monitor Daemon
    • Examples
    • Removing a rule
  • Further Reading
    • Features Overview (a.k.a The Eruption Handbook)
    • Other Documentation
  • HOWTOs
  • FAQs
  • Contributing

Eruption - Realtime RGB LED Software for Linux

A Linux user-mode input and RGB LED driver for keyboards, mice and other devices

Gallery

Device Compatibility

Keyboards

• ROCCAT Vulcan 100/12x series keyboard (fully supported, stable)
• ROCCAT Vulcan Pro TKL series keyboard (98% supported as of version 0.1.19, testing)
• ROCCAT Vulcan TKL series keyboard (work-in-progress, as of version 0.1.20, experimental, untested)
• ROCCAT Vulcan Pro series keyboard (work-in-progress, as of version 0.1.20, experimental, untested)
• ROCCAT Magma series keyboard (work-in-progress, as of version 0.1.23, experimental)
• Corsair Strafe Gaming Keyboard (non-RGB/monochrome only, as of version 0.1.20, experimental)

Mice

• ROCCAT Kone Pure Ultra (stable)
• ROCCAT Burst Pro (as of version 0.1.20, testing)
• ROCCAT Kain 100 AIMO (as of version 0.2.0, experimental)
• ROCCAT Kain 2xx AIMO (as of version 0.1.23, testing)
• ROCCAT Kone XP (work-in-progress, as of version 0.2.0, experimental)
• ROCCAT Kone Pro (work-in-progress, as of version 0.2.0, experimental)
• ROCCAT Kone Pro Air (work-in-progress, as of version 0.2.0, experimental)
• ROCCAT Kone Aimo (experimental)
• ROCCAT Kone Aimo Remastered (experimental)
• ROCCAT Kova AIMO (testing)
• ROCCAT Kova 2016 (as of version 0.1.23, testing)
• ROCCAT Kone XTD (as of version 0.1.20, experimental)

Miscellaneous Devices

• ROCCAT/Turtle Beach Elo 7.1 Air Wireless Headset (work-in-progress, as of version 0.1.23, testing)
• ROCCAT Sense AIMO XXL (as of version 0.1.23, stable)
• Adalight/Custom serial LEDs (testing)

Please see DEVICES.md for further information

NOTE

Experimental drivers are disabled in the default configuration!

To enable support for experimental drivers, please edit /etc/eruption/eruption.conf and set

driver_maturity_level = "experimental"

Important Information

This project is still in an early stage of development, and thus may contain some possibly serious bugs.

If you ever need to forcefully disable the Eruption daemon you may do so by adding the following text snippet to the bootloader's (e.g. GRUB) kernel command line:

systemd.mask=eruption.service

Or with systemctl to mask the service:

sudo systemctl mask eruption.service

You can always re-enable the Eruption service with the command:

sudo systemctl unmask eruption.service

Design Overview

Introduction

Eruption is a Linux daemon written in the Rust programming language. Eruption consists of a core daemon providing an integrated Lua interpreter, and additional plugin components. Its primary usage is to execute Lua scripts that may react to certain events on the system like e.g. Timer tick, Key press or Mouse move and subsequently control the connected LED devices and/or transform the user input via the integrated programmable macro feature. Eruption plugins may export additional functionality to the Lua scripting engine. Multiple Lua scripts may be run in parallel, each one in its own VM thread. A Lua script shall compute some kind of effect resulting in a 'color map'. Each Lua scripts 'submitted color map' will be combined with all other scripts 'submitted color maps' using a compositor that performs an alpha blending step on each 'color map' before it finally gets sent to the connected LED devices.

Systems Architecture

Eruption is split into multiple independent processes: eruption, the core daemon that handles hardware access running as root, and multiple session daemons, most notably eruption-audio-proxy that provides audio related functionality to the core daemon, and eruption-process-monitor that is able to automatically switch profiles based on system usage. Both of these session daemons run as the respective logged-in user.

Installation

To install the latest git snapshot please use the package named eruption-git instead of the stable package eruption

Arch Linux and derivatives like ArcoLinux or Manjaro

paru -Syu aur/eruption

systemctl --user enable --now eruption-audio-proxy.service
systemctl --user enable --now eruption-process-monitor.service

sudo systemctl enable --now eruption.service

Fedora based

sudo dnf copr enable x3n0m0rph59/eruption
sudo dnf install eruption

systemctl --user enable --now eruption-audio-proxy.service
systemctl --user enable --now eruption-process-monitor.service

sudo systemctl enable --now eruption.service

Ubuntu or Pop!_OS

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:x3n0m0rph59/eruption
sudo apt update
sudo apt install eruption

systemctl --user enable --now eruption-audio-proxy.service
systemctl --user enable --now eruption-process-monitor.service

sudo systemctl enable --now eruption.service

From Source

git clone https://github.com/X3n0m0rph59/eruption.git
cd eruption
make
sudo make install
make start

To remove Eruption from your system run:

make stop
sudo make uninstall

Please refer to INSTALL.md for further information, e.g. the dependencies you need to install to be able to successfully build Eruption from source.

After Setup

You may want to try the Eruption Profile Switcher GNOME Shell extension that enables easy switching of profiles on the fly

Support for Audio Playback and Capture

Eruption currently has built-in support for the following audio APIs:

• PipeWire (via the PulseAudio interface of PipeWire)
• PulseAudio

Audio support is provided by eruption-audio-proxy.service.

The eruption-audio-proxy Daemon

As of Eruption 0.1.23 it is no longer necessary to grant the root user full access to the PipeWire or PulseAudio session instance. Therefore, it is no longer required to edit configuration files. Just enable the eruption-audio-proxy session daemon and assign a device monitor to listen on, e.g. by using pavucontrol.

systemctl --user enable --now eruption-audio-proxy.service

NOTE: Please do not use sudo in front of the command since it has to act on the session instance of systemd

Next, switch to a profile that utilizes the audio API of Eruption:

eruptionctl switch profile spectrum-analyzer-swirl.profile

Then use pavucontrol to assign a monitor of an audio device to the Eruption audio grabber.

NOTE: You have to select a profile that makes use auf the audio grabber first, otherwise the eruption-audio-proxy will not open an audio device for recording, and therefore will not be listed

The eruption-process-monitor Daemon

As of Eruption 0.1.19, automatic switching of profiles and slots is supported via the eruption-process-monitor daemon. It gathers data via multiple sensor plugins and matches this data against a rule engine. It currently supports executing actions on process execution, as well as on Wayland or X11 "window focus changed" events.

Examples

To enable the daemon please run the command:

systemctl --user enable --now eruption-process-monitor.service

To list all rules, run the command:

eruption-process-monitor rules list

Switch to spectrum-analyzer-swirl.profile when a YouTube tab is active in Google Chrome:

eruption-process-monitor rules add window-name '.*YouTube.*Google Chrome' /var/lib/eruption/profiles/spectrum-analyzer-swirl.profile

Switch to profile3.profile when a YouTube tab is active in Mozilla Firefox:

eruption-process-monitor rules add window-name '.*YouTube.*Mozilla Firefox' /var/lib/eruption/profiles/profile3.profile

To list all supported sensors and actions please run the command:

eruption-process-monitor rules add help

Removing a rule

eruption-process-monitor rules list
  0: On window focused: Name: '.*YouTube.*Mozilla Firefox' => Switch to profile: /var/lib/eruption/profiles/spectrum-analyzer-swirl.profile (enabled: false, internal: false)
  1: On window focused: Name: 'Skype' => Switch to profile: /var/lib/eruption/profiles/vu-meter.profile (enabled: false, internal: false)
  2: On window focused: Name: 'Left 4 Dead 2.*' => Switch to profile: /var/lib/eruption/profiles/gaming.profile (enabled: true, internal: false)
  3: On window focused: Name: '.*YouTube.*Google Chrome' => Switch to profile: /var/lib/eruption/profiles/spectrum-analyzer-swirl.profile (enabled: true, internal: false)
  4: On window focused: Instance: '.*' => Switch to profile: /var/lib/eruption/profiles/profile1.profile (enabled: true, internal: true)

To remove a rule, please run the following command:

eruption-process-monitor rules remove 1

This will remove the rule for the window named Skype from the ruleset.

Further Reading

Features Overview (a.k.a The Eruption Handbook)

A general overview over the features of Eruption and how to use them

FEATURES.md

Other Documentation

Please see DOCUMENTATION.md for a more thorough explanation of what Eruption is, and how to use and customize it properly.

For further information about the supported Lua functions and libraries, please refer to the developer documentation LIBRARY.md.

For a detailed documentation on how to write your own macros, please refer to MACROS.md

HOWTOs

Please find a list of HOWTOs at HOWTO.md

FAQs

Please find a list of frequently asked questions and their respective answers at FAQs.md

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see eruption/src/scripts/examples/*.lua directory for Lua scripting examples.