AcerHelper v0.1.1

Documentation release. The binaries are unchanged from v0.1.0 — if you are already running it, there is nothing to gain by updating.

This exists so the download is self-contained: v0.1.0 shipped before MODELS.md and the model support form existed, so anyone extracting the zip had no path to getting their own laptop added without going back to the repository.

What is new

• MODELS.md is now in the package — what has been confirmed on which machines, and the firmware fingerprint (0x53 profiles, 0x0227 sensors, 0x03 battery functions) that lets you compare your machine to a verified one.
• Model support form — one read-only command and a form. No forking, no code.
• README and PROBING both route to it directly instead of burying it under the full methodology.

Your Acer isn't listed?

You do not need to write any code. Extract the zip, open a terminal as Administrator in that folder, and run:

AcerHelper.Probe.exe --sweep --battery

It only reads — it changes nothing. Paste the output into a model support request and your machine can be added.

If it says the gaming interface was not found, please still file it. A model that does not work is worth recording — it marks where the supported range ends, and a list that only records successes cannot tell an untested model from an unsupported one.

Install

Extract anywhere and run AcerHelper.App.exe. It will ask for administrator, which WMI method invocation requires. No .NET runtime and no VC++ redistributable needed; keep the three DLLs beside the executable, as Avalonia's renderer needs them.

Verified on an Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41, BIOS V1.51, Ryzen 5 7535HS + RTX 3050 6 GB. See the v0.1.0 notes for the full feature list, what this hardware cannot do, and the protocol findings.

No Acer software was disassembled. The protocol came from the Linux kernel driver acer-wmi.c, frederik-h/acer-wmi-battery, and the machine's own ACPI tables.