BlackWidow Ultimate 2013's lighting effect is supported by OpenRazer, but doesn't show on Polychromatic

[YamiYukiSenpai]

Details about the problem

Lighting effects doesn't appear on Polychromatic, but it shows up on RazerGenie.


I originally reported the issue here.

Operating System / Desktop Environment

Ubuntu 20.04 with Unity desktop

Affected Devices

BlackWidow Ultimate 2013

[lah7]

It's likely a bug with v0.3.12, which is old and crusty, but newer developments (v1.0.0) haven't superseded this version yet.

Try the dev-1.0.0 branch - it's an unreleased "v0.5.0" version, but it may have improved support for this device in the meantime.

For convenience, here's a packaged version to try: polychromatic_0.5.0-UNRELEASED_all.deb.gz

gzip -d polychromatic_0.5.0-UNRELEASED_all.deb.gz
sudo apt install ./polychromatic_0.5.0-UNRELEASED_all.deb

If my memory recalls, the effects may not show up in the Controller because this development depends on openrazer/openrazer#1149 which hasn't been merged. However, it should show in the tray applet.

[YamiYukiSenpai]

Why was the stable release stuck at 0.3.12?

[lah7]

Please see #263 for the development history up to this point.

[lah7]

Closing as v0.7.0 is now officially released.

[afzalarsalan]

I can confirm that the ripple option now appears on this keyboard but the actual operation seems to be non functioning. Clicking on the ripple options leads to this error message

Traceback (most recent call last): File ’/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/polychromatic/backends/openrazer.py’, line 918, in set_device_state rzone.pulsate(colour_1[0], colour_1[1], colour_1[2]) AttributeError: ’RazerFX’ object has no attribute ’pulsate’

I can also confirm that this functionality still works with RazerGenie with the latest version of Openrazer 3.1.0

[lah7]

There is a bug in OpenRazer's Python library which is causing this error, see #345.