Mouse Lenovo m210 leds are burning my eyes please assist

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OK This is too trival for support so it goes to coffe break. Im on rock om6. I recently bought Lenovo m201 gaming mouse. Its cheap it fits my hand perfecly and i t have some nice dpi options… OK let’s cut to the case enough yapping.The mouse is visible in the system as

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 17ef:6187 Lenovo Lenovo M210 RGB Gaming Mouse

So I installed following packages in order to manage this mouse

piper OpenRGB.x86_64 polychromatic.noarch openrazer.noarch

None of those programs is able to even detect this mouse.

So i digged little further.

sudo ratbagctl list
[sudo] user password kuba:
No devices available

I tryed to use open rgb as root no succes, it sees nothing

Then i go with the folowing

sudo nano /usr/share/libratbag/lenovo-m210.device
version 1
[Device]
Name=Lenovo M210 RGB Gaming Mouse
DeviceMatch=usb:17ef:6187
Driver=hidpp20

[Component@0]
Type=button
Numbers=0,1,2,3,4,5

[Component@1]
Type=led
Numbers=0

version 2
[Device]
Name=Lenovo M210 RGB Gaming Mouse
DeviceMatch=usb:17ef:6187
Driver=generic

[Component@0]
Type=button
Numbers=0,1,2,3,4,5

and version 3
 [Device]
Name=Lenovo M210 RGB Gaming Mouse
DeviceMatch=usb:17ef:6187
Driver=hidpp20
DeviceType=m

[Component@0]
Type=button
Numbers=0,1,2,3,4,5

[Component@1]
Type=led
Numbers=0

Nope non of this actually works, frankly that is not a suprise thisis for button settings not rgb lights.

Finally i go with sudo modprobe i2c-dev

sudo openrgb --rescan
Attempting to connect to local OpenRGB server.
Connection attempt failed
Local OpenRGB server unavailable.
Running standalone.
[i2c_smbus_linux] Failed to read i2c device PCI device ID
[i2c_smbus_linux] Failed to read i2c device PCI device ID
Error: Invalid option: --rescan
OpenRGB 0.9, for controlling RGB lighting.
Usage: OpenRGB (--device [--mode] [--color])...

Nope. This ducking led rainbow on a mouse is bright as the sun itself. It burns my eyes. If any one, have any idea how to turn off those damn lights, without dissasembling the damn thing please respond.Im thinking aobut buing myself a sunglasses :stuck_out_tongue:

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Probably contributing to the problem.

Probably permissions related or a udev/id issue.

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Press the back button and the mmb / scroll button at the same time to cycle the rainbow puke to its off mode.

It is written in the first page of the Quick Start Guide PDF from the products support page - it is not very obvious but written beneath the diagram showing a hand pressing those buttons is:

Cycle through modes of seven lighting effects and off.

You should be able to set that off at the hardware level and hopefully the device will remember it and your eyeballs will be saved.

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already tryed that :slight_smile:

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You could just go medieval on it: Cover the LED up with a piece of electrical tape.

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Prabably I will do just that. It is a great mouse but it is all rainbows like full blown prade parade.

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Try black nailpolish.
Or, since everything is prob plastic hit up a hobby shop and get a small jar of black model paint. Not craft paint - too soft. It will flake off almost instantly.
Oh, and you may have to prep the surface with some sandpaper and alcohol/acetone/benzene

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If it won’t cycle through the different settings then you could disassemble it and unplug the led strip.

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After painting with model paint, go over the top of it with some clear-coat for models.

I wouldn’t try the chemical route. My experience working with plastic is some plastics will melt when exposed to alcohol/acetone/benzene. The adhesives sold at hobby shops don’t glue surfaces together. They tend to melt the surfaces and create a weld. Not all plastics are the same. What works on styrene won’t work on nylon, polypropylene, polycarbonate, or acrylic.

Hobby shops paints generally don’t require surface prep before painting. At least the paints sold for model railroads don’t require surface prep where styrene is the plastic material in use.

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You’re definitely correct on the “model glue” - it’s more of a weld

I was thinking of the chemical prep as more of a cleaning agent - a degreaser if you will. A quick swipe or 3 with a q-tip before painting

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hi all, grafi try to install oryginal drivers or software to this product but in wine or glass in exe version, in last of fedora system in gnome this resolve my problems with fingerprint sensor and gnome will get keyrings and works properlly.

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Mate Im a ducking idiot XD it worked! I just pressed the buttons wrong.
Yup this part pressed the buttons wrong. sounds morronic and it is in fact morronic but … im a left hended. So i just had to use both hands to turn those ducking lights off. If a one is right handed then one just need two fingers.

Anyway thank you

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:man_facepalming:

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Yup :person_facepalming: