> Whatever keyboard light program you’re using costs real money for the company to make and maintain, and they’d like to keep costs down. Then just release the

> Whatever keyboard light program you’re using costs real money for the company to make and maintain, and they’d like to keep costs down. Then just release the hardware specs and let motivated users maintain it past it useful (to the manufacturer) life. Like, I have this Govee thermometer I bought to learn about Bluetooth that needs an app to read out the data stored in it. Last I looked nobody reverse engineered the protocol and they don’t have technical specifications because they want to keep you inside their ecosystem. Someday they will just give up the ghost and all these gadgets will be mostly useless (said thermometer transmits current readings so can always be read with a little work). Yet another of my “when I get motivated enough” projects… —edit— Counterpoint: I have a couple Bluetooth button things which did provide specs and it took me a couple hours of fiddling to get it to fully work with an example program, I push the button and the computer knows it, computer tells it to beep and it beeps, its built in “alert on dropping signal” (so you don’t lose your keys) just works, easy peasy.