OpenPleb: An initiative from Level1Techs and Gamers Nexus
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OpenPleb is a new initiative to work with hardware manufacturers and get them to open up on the multitudes of proprietary hardware control specifications tha...

I made this video discussing my thoughts on the OpenPleb initiative by Wendell of Level1Techs and Steve of Gamers Nexus. As the developer of OpenRGB, the OpenPleb initiative, which aims to work with hardware vendors to open up documentation for proprietary protocols used for consumer PC hardware, could be a massive boon for OpenRGB development as at the moment almost everything we add is reverse engineered. Having access to protocol documentation would improve the quality of our code and the efficiency in which we can release it.

For reference, I’d recommend watching Steve’s original video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKOtvOqa_vM&t=0s

I posted this on /r/hardware because Steve’s video got a lot of traction there, but I wasn’t necessarily happy about posting on Reddit, so here it is for Lemmy.

  • FerrahWolfehEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Impressive!

    However I don’t really know how successful you guys will be at achieving this though…

    Yet, I feel that every small progress there might benefit a giant part of open source hardware support as a whole.

    Good luck on this, guys!

    • CalcProgrammer1OPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I feel like having big names like Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs will help this a lot. OpenRGB will continue regardless of whether or not this succeeds, but if they do succeed it will make OpenRGB development a lot better and easier. Steve already says he has several companies that have agreed to take part behind the scenes but nothing’s been announced officially yet.