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Anonymous
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Razer Huntsman Elite local profiles not saving to keyboard

RazerThe_Fiend For products exclusively on Synapse 3, the only effect on-board is Spectrum Cycling... we use the saved resources (we actually added a bit more) to implement a macro execution engine on hardware, So the Huntsman Elite is not a Synapse 3 exclusive product? Because it DOES have more on-board effects than Spectrum Cycling. For instance I can activate starlight or static (not using Synapse of course) and both continue working across boot cycles and even when I am in boot menu or BIOS. (So no software is running.) The other effects probably work to as they are activated exactly the same way, I just haven't tested them. My keyboard has firmware v1.3. Please check your sources before stating again that it does not have these effects.

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Anonymous
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Razer Huntsman Elite local profiles not saving to keyboard

yriloPlease can you share solution you found? I think everyone here will be thankful :D I am afraid few people will find my solution helpful. I essentially patched openrazer to support this keyboard. Openrazer is a linux driver for razer keyboards. I also contributed the patch, but it has not yet made it into the released version of openrazer.

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Anonymous
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Razer Huntsman Elite local profiles not saving to keyboard

Typing on this keyboard is so much fun... I just want to keep writing. :) Despite all the hassle, hats off for the great hardware you guys make.

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Anonymous
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Razer Huntsman Elite local profiles not saving to keyboard

yriloAnd that is great approach. BUT, I think that would be OK to put some other lightning effects on baord, just simple one, so we can switch that default wave. Like reactive (pick background color, front color, and speed), ripple effect, and so on. The effects are already on the board. What I have seen with my own eyes are wave, chroma cycle, static, starlight, breathing and reactive. Not sure how many more there are. Its just about adding some way to configure this default/offline mode or whatever you want to call it in Synapse.

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Anonymous
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Razer Huntsman Elite local profiles not saving to keyboard

RazerThe_FiendThat someone would be me. Thanks for not beating around the bush. I played around with the keyboard some more using alternate ways of driving it (no Synapse) and found out that the hardware still supports a lot of lighting effects. What is even more interesting: I had activated static color (this is what I want to use) and the keyboard seems to persist this setting. It keeps it across boot cycles. I could even unplug the keyboard and when plugged in it would go back to the static color I had set. The setting only gets lost once I start Synapse and upon closing it the keyboard gets reset to chroma cycle. This made me wondering: Wouldn't it be possible to have at least a very limited way to configure a fallback lighting in Synapse for when Synapse is not running? It seems the hardware is already fully capable of doing this. I'm thinking about people who use these keyboards outside gaming as well or in the workplace. Essentially there would only need to be two options

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Anonymous
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Razer Huntsman Elite local profiles not saving to keyboard

gdpr.yeahOf course all of this is just my opinion and not a fact. :) And it seems my opinion might have been wrong. I downloaded some code from one of the open razer guys and hacked away to see if anything could be done (at least static color should work even with a dumb keyboard, right?) and I got lucky and managed to not only get static display to work, but was also able to trigger breathing mode without Synapse. This was a surprise and does not match with what I read before. But before I jump to any more conclusions I will do some more research as the matter seems to be more complicated than originally expected.

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Anonymous
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Razer Huntsman Elite local profiles not saving to keyboard

Ran into the same issue, but liked the keyboard as such and want to keep it, so I did some research whether there might be any hope. It seems some guys are working on a Linux driver for some time now. (open razer) and the discussions over there are very eye opening as to what's going on here. It seems Razer dumbed down the keyboard controller compared to older keyboards. The guys at open razer call it "software based lighting". The keyboard can do exactly one lighting on its own - the dreaded chroma cycle. This animation is active unless the keyboard is being driven by Synapse. When driven by Synapse, the keyboard essentially acts like a dumb screen. It just displays a picture (imagine each key being a pixel) which is sent to it by the PC. Synapse calculates the animation on your PC and updates the keyboard at a high enough frame rate. Lighting not working without Synapse was not an accident or oversight. Someone wanted it to be like this - probably to save development effort / cost

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