![]() ![]() ![]() I would like to help with this, since I'm already somewhat fluent in Flutter and little bit in Golang and C. Ideally the software team behind the G-Hub would also work on this project, but I guess it could be done without them. So here's my suggestion: If the Logitech Team feels ready to embrace FOSS (which would be a good PR move), they should make atleast the backend side of the software open source, to enable the community to build a platform-agnostic software of it, that works like the original. You would still have to account for differences in OS, but these tools should make this a lot easier. I'm not so well versed when it comes to the backend side of things (the driver and so on), but maybe using Golang (or just c, c++, idk) might alleviate some problems, since it runs natively on all platforms (even arm afaik). Canonical (the ubuntu company) has recently announced that want to use Flutter for GUI development going forward. Also this would make Logitech products more attractive to the "professional/working" crowd in software dev areas, since knowing that your gear has Linux support, elevates it from the competition IMO.Īnd in terms of effort needed to maintain 2 platforms or more, for the UI side there are cool projects like Flutter which enable easy cross-platform development. Nobody buys your products for the software, so there is really no reason to keep it closed source. Documentation here is for the current version of Solaar. Solaar does not work with peripherals from other companies. I personally don't quite get why this isn't done more often, it's 2021 and not 2001, there are many enthusiastic devs around and FOSS is the cool thing to do. Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and trackpads that connect wirelessly to a USB Unifying, Bolt, Lightspeed, or Nano receiver connect directly via a USB cable or connect via Bluetooth. It would also open the software up to the community and enable it to actually include things that they want and fix things that they dislike, instead of always having to wait for a product team, that is most likely overworked or busy with a lot other tasks. Hi, I was thinking, why not make a FOSS Logitech Hub software, so we can use it on Linux and Windows ? Many people that want this to work on Linux are software devs anyway, so I'm sure there would be some volunteers that could help facilitate this.
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