Mouse LED Control in Python

[Chris Lambacher]

There is not enough information in that post to be able to reimpliment what he
did in any language.  You will have to try and get in touch with the author.

-Chris  
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 01:26:40PM -0700, semagraw at gmail.com wrote:
> I found this link that describes the byte arrays to control the
> IM/Email Leds on my Logitech MX610 mouse:
> 
> http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2029
> 
> The link to the tarball is dead so I can't look at that.  Is there
> anyway to do what the link says in Python? If you follow the link
> above, it talks about 'sending the byte array to 0x10 (16)'.  I'm not
> sure if that is possible in python.  Can anyone help or point me in the
> right direction?  I'd also be willing to have this be done in another
> language and just call different programs from a python program when I
> need something specific done (IM light on, for example).
> 
> 
> 
> Text from the link if you can't be bothered to follow it:
> 
> "I've figured out the IM led now. As before, you send 6 bytes to report
> ID 0x10
> (16), followed by the "confirm" message.
> 
> The magic values are:
> unsigned char confirm[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 };
> unsigned char email_off[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x06, 0x00, 0x00 };
> unsigned char email_on[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x05, 0x00, 0x00 };
> unsigned char email_pulse[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x04, 0x00, 0x00 };
> unsigned char email_flash[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00 };
> unsigned char email_instanton[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00
> };
> unsigned char email_instantoff[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x01, 0x00,
> 0x00 };
> 
> unsigned char im_off[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x00, 0x06, 0x00 };
> unsigned char im_on[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x00, 0x05, 0x00 };
> unsigned char im_pulse[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x00, 0x04, 0x00 };
> unsigned char im_flash[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x00, 0x03, 0x00 };
> unsigned char im_instantoff[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00
> };
> unsigned char im_instanton[6] = { 0x01, 0x80, 0x52, 0x00, 0x02, 0x00
> };"
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
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