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Description

The 2025 ROG Flow Z13 GZ302EA has working keyboard RGB but its rear window
remains dark under asusctl. The rear controller is the separate
0b05:18c6 USB device; the detachable 0b05:1a30 device remains the
keyboard. This adds static rear-window colour and brightness control through
the existing Aura D-Bus service, CLI, and ROG Control Center.

  • On GZ302EA only, pair 18c6's ASUS Aura output interface with its HID
    LampArray feature-report interface under one rear Aura object. Match both
    interfaces by USB parent, interface number and descriptor so hidraw
    enumeration and keyboard detach/reattach cannot swap them.
  • Use the source-documented Aura wake/power/brightness sequence, then standard
    LampArray reports to set all eleven declared lamps to one colour. Full packet
    tests cover the wake sequence and both static-colour update reports.
  • Keep the 1a30 keyboard Aura object intact. Add asusctl aura --device rear|keyboard; ambiguous unqualified effects fail instead of changing
    both. Label the devices in ROG Control Center. Keyboard brightness commands
    reassert the rear's saved brightness because the keyboard sysfs control
    also changes the rear output on this board.
  • Advertise Static only for the rear. Animated and per-lamp behaviour has
    not been verified.
  • Use slice.fill(50) in the existing Anime diagnostic example to satisfy
    the contribution guide's strict all-targets Clippy check (separate commit).
  • Follow-up review fixes preserve Ally and multi-keyboard CLI selection,
    apply TUF power to every selected keyboard, reject unsupported power targets,
    propagate rear-brightness lookup errors, use an async LampArray delay, and
    localize GUI device names while retiring old subscriptions on switch.

The earlier invalid 18c6 entry removed by #333 treated 18c6 as a second
keyboard. This model-scoped rear role has its own interface pairing and GUI
label, while the 1a30 keyboard definition stays unchanged.

Refs #354 (rear RGB portion); related #62.

Tested Hardware & Environment

  • ASUS Laptop Model: ROG Flow Z13 2025, board GZ302EA (owner-reported
    GZ302EA-RU004W)
  • Linux Distribution: Fedora 44, GNOME/Wayland
  • Kernel Version: 7.2.6-200.fc44.x86_64
  • USB IDs: 0b05:1a30 keyboard; 0b05:18c6 rear controller

Local binaries were exercised under a temporary, automatically rolled-back
asusd service override. The owner visually confirmed rear static red,
green, blue, white, off and on; keyboard-only colour changes left the rear
unchanged, and rear-only colour changes left the keyboard unchanged. Keyboard
input, RGB and brightness worked. Keyboard detach/reattach, daemon restart,
one direct and one logind-managed s2idle cycle, and a live GUI static-red
selection were also checked. The packaged Terra daemon was restored
afterward. The final CLI brightness and GUI selection follow-up fixes were
compiled and tested but not separately retested visually; the LampArray delay
remains 10 ms.

Protocol references: z13ctl's Z13 Aura sequence,
G-Helper Linux's Aura implementation,
its LampArray implementation,
and the USB-IF Lighting and Illumination HID specification.
AI-assisted tooling helped investigate the hardware and develop the patch;
the packet behaviour was checked against those sources and tested on the
physical GZ302EA, and the hardware owner reviewed the resulting change.

Verification and testing:

  • I have performed a self-review of my code
  • I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
  • I have made corresponding changes to the documentation (protocol
    explanation above and source comments)
  • My code follows the style guidelines of this project
    (cargo fmt --all -- --check)
  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
    passes, including the Anime example
  • cargo check --all-targets passes
  • New and existing tests pass locally (cargo test --all; 137 tests)
  • Cranky with 0 warnings (cargo cranky)

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  • New Features

    • Added support for controlling the GZ302EA rear lighting, including brightness and static color settings.
    • The Aura settings page now lets you select a lighting device when multiple devices are available.
    • Aura command-line controls now support targeting a specific device and setting its brightness.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved brightness handling so rear lighting retains its setting when keyboard lighting changes.

Walkthrough

This change adds GZ302EA rear-light support through paired Aura and LampArray HID interfaces. It adds rear-light brightness and colour control, distinguishes the rear device from the keyboard, and adds device selection to the CLI and control-center Aura page.

Changes

GZ302EA rear-light support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Device identity and support data
rog-aura/src/lib.rs, rog-aura/data/aura_support.ron, rog-aura/src/keyboard/power.rs, asusd/src/aura_laptop/config.rs, rog-control-center/ui/types/aura_types.slint
Aura classification uses product ID and board name to identify RearGlow. The support database and device types include the rear device.
HID reports and paired interfaces
rog-platform/src/hid_raw.rs, rog-aura/src/gz302_rear.rs, asusd/src/aura_manager.rs, asusd/src/aura_types.rs
A HID feature-report writer and GZ302EA report builders support rear-light control. The daemon locates and tracks the paired Aura and LampArray HID interfaces.
Daemon rear-light control
asusd/src/aura_laptop/*
The daemon applies wake, LampArray control, and static-colour reports. It handles rear brightness separately from sysfs keyboard brightness and restricts rear-device mode and power operations.

Aura device selection

Layer / File(s) Summary
CLI device targeting
asusctl/src/cli_opts.rs, asusctl/src/main.rs
Aura commands accept a device option and brightness subcommand. Mode and power operations target the selected device; keyboard brightness changes reassert rear brightness.
Control-center device selection
rog-control-center/src/ui/setup_aura.rs, rog-control-center/src/types/aura_types.rs, rog-control-center/ui/pages/aura.slint, rog-control-center/ui/types/aura_types.slint, rog-control-center/translations/en/rog-control-center.po
The Aura page lists available devices and loads the selected device's state. Generation checks guard updates and callbacks, and the page hides Power Settings for RearGlow. The translation catalog adds the “Lighting device” entry and refreshes its references.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~55 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant PageAura
  participant setup_aura
  participant AuraProxy
  User->>PageAura: select a lighting device
  PageAura->>setup_aura: select_device(index)
  setup_aura->>AuraProxy: read brightness, mode, and device type
  AuraProxy-->>setup_aura: return device state
  setup_aura->>PageAura: update selected device state
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Suggested labels: rog-aura, asusd, asusctl, rog-control-center, enhancement

Suggested reviewers: neroreflex

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a1fa6

The power-tuf command now updates all selected eligible keyboards. No remaining identified risk warrants delaying the rear-light and device-selection changes.

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Inline comments:
In `@asusctl/src/main.rs`:
- Line 296: Update the `"keyboard"` arm in `selected_aura` to include
`AuraDeviceType::Ally` in its device-type matches, using a valid `|` separator.
Preserve the existing keyboard device types.
- Line 652: Update reassert_rear_brightness around the
selected_aura(Some("rear")) lookup to distinguish a confirmed missing rear
device from other lookup failures. Preserve the no-op behavior when no rear
device is present, but propagate interface discovery and device_type() errors
instead of treating them as absence; keep the existing brightness() and
set_brightness() error propagation.
- Around line 599-657: Update selected_aura so selection Some("keyboard")
returns every matching keyboard Aura proxy instead of rejecting multiple
matches. Preserve the single-device requirement for None and Some("rear"), and
retain the existing invalid-selection and no-match errors using
aura_matches_selection and single_aura_index.

In `@asusd/src/aura_laptop/mod.rs`:
- Line 119: In the async function containing the autonomous-to-host transition,
replace the blocking std::thread::sleep with an awaited Tokio timer for the same
10 ms delay. Keep the existing lock-guard scope and transition ordering
unchanged.

In `@rog-control-center/src/ui/setup_aura.rs`:
- Around line 58-64: Separate the device identity from its English display label
in the `setup_aura` model values, and define the translated labels in Slint so
“Keyboard,” “Rear window,” and “Aura device” are available to translation
extraction. Keep the identity stable for selecting and handling devices, while
displaying the localized label in the dropdown.
- Around line 348-350: Update the Aura stream task lifecycle around selection
handling so changing the selected device stops both the previous brightness and
LED-mode subscriptions, even when their streams produce no events. Retain both
task handles and abort them on selection change, or use a selection-change
signal to terminate both stream loops; keep the generation checks for guarding
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27-27: LGTM!

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24-24: LGTM!

Also applies to: 80-96, 125-148

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4-4: LGTM!

Also applies to: 61-62

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201-204: LGTM!

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4-16: LGTM!

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96-96: LGTM!

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6-6: LGTM!

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The claim cannot be decided from the supplied evidence. The shown brightness() code returns cached rear brightness, but the keyboard set_brightness() implementation and all reassertion call paths are not provided. The change summary is explicitly non-authoritative and does not establish whether the daemon synchronizes rear brightness or whether Fn-key changes bypass it. The claimed desynchronization and proposed daemon fix therefore remain undecidable.

rog-control-center/src/types/aura_types.rs (1)

158-158: LGTM!

Also applies to: 173-173

rog-control-center/ui/pages/aura.slint (1)

26-32: LGTM!

Also applies to: 192-192

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🟡 Minor · Update every selected keyboard in power-tuf. · main.rs:769

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Update every selected keyboard in power-tuf.

When --device keyboard selects two old-laptop or TUF controllers, selected_aura returns both. This return exits after updating the first controller. The second retains its previous power state. Continue the loop after a successful update, and print the unsupported-device message only if no controller was updated.

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In `@asusctl/src/main.rs` at line 769, Update the controller loop around
selected_aura so a successful update continues to the next selected controller
instead of returning early. Track whether any controller was updated, and print
the unsupported-device message only when none were updated.

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In `@asusctl/src/main.rs`:
- Line 769: Update the controller loop around selected_aura so a successful
update continues to the next selected controller instead of returning early.
Track whether any controller was updated, and print the unsupported-device
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This is not the right method for this. Lamparray will allow this to be very dynamic without device-specific logic. Besides, this will likely resolve itself when proper lamparray support is implemented in the first place. This is already in the works

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Thanks, that makes sense. I’d rather help get this supported through the generic LampArray path than carry GZ302EA-specific logic. I have the GZ302EA hardware here and have confirmed the rear 0b05:18c6 device exposes the LampArray interface and can test patches/branches against it.

Is the LampArray work you mention currently in a public branch/kernel patchset I can test or contribute to? Happy to rework/drop the device-specific parts of this PR and help validate the generic implementation on the Z13.

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It's planned out as part of the new UI development, and we have some scripts I could share with you that can dynamically get the lamparray feature reports and light up the individual LEDs one by one, as well as the concept for how auto mode and manual mode switching would work. If you're interested in contributing, you can join us in the asusctl-dev channel on the OGC Discord (link in readme)

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With respect to the above conversation I will close this

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