SteelSeries Aerox 5 Wireless

Supported Models

SteelSeries Aerox 5 Wireless (wired mode)

1038:1854

SteelSeries Aerox 5 Wireless Destiny 2 Edition (wired mode)

1038:185e

SteelSeries Aerox 5 Wireless Diablo IV Edition (wired mode)

1038:1862

SteelSeries Aerox 5 Wireless (2.4 GHz wireless mode)

1038:1852

SteelSeries Aerox 5 Wireless Destiny 2 Edition (2.4 GHz wireless mode)

1038:185c

SteelSeries Aerox 5 Wireless Diablo IV Edition (2.4 GHz wireless mode)

1038:1860

Missing Features

The following feature are currently not supported by Rivalcfg:

  • Smart illumination

Command-Line Usage

usage: rivalcfg [-h] [--list] [--version] [--no-save] [--update-udev]
                [--print-udev] [--print-debug] [-s SENSITIVITY]
                [-p POLLING_RATE] [--top-color Z1_COLOR]
                [--middle-color Z2_COLOR] [--bottom-color Z3_COLOR]
                [-a REACTIVE_COLOR] [-t SLEEP_TIMER] [-T DIM_TIMER]
                [-b BUTTONS_MAPPING] [-e] [-d DEFAULT_LIGHTING] [-r]
                [--battery-level]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --list                List supported devices and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  --no-save             Do not persist settings in the internal device memory
  --update-udev         Updates udev rules (Linux only, requires to be run as
                        root)
  --print-udev          Prints udev rules and exit
  --print-debug         Prints debug information and exit

SteelSeries Aerox 5 Wireless (wired mode) Options:
  -s SENSITIVITY, --sensitivity SENSITIVITY
                        Set sensitivity preset (DPI) (up to 5 settings, from
                        100 dpi to 18000 dpi, default: '400, 800, 1200, 2400,
                        3200')
  -p POLLING_RATE, --polling-rate POLLING_RATE
                        Set polling rate (Hz) (values: 125, 250, 500, 1000,
                        default: 1000)
  --top-color Z1_COLOR, --z1 Z1_COLOR
                        Set the color of the top LED (e.g. red, #ff0000,
                        ff0000, #f00, f00, default: red)
  --middle-color Z2_COLOR, --z2 Z2_COLOR
                        Set the color of the middle LED (e.g. red, #ff0000,
                        ff0000, #f00, f00, default: lime)
  --bottom-color Z3_COLOR, --z3 Z3_COLOR
                        Set the color of the bottom LED (e.g. red, #ff0000,
                        ff0000, #f00, f00, default: blue)
  -a REACTIVE_COLOR, --reactive-color REACTIVE_COLOR
                        Set the color of the LEDs in reaction to a button
                        click (e.g. off, disable, red, #ff0000, ff0000, #f00,
                        f00, default: off)
  -t SLEEP_TIMER, --sleep-timer SLEEP_TIMER
                        Set the IDLE time before the mouse goes to sleep mode
                        (minutes, 0 = disable) (from 0 to 20, default: 5)
  -T DIM_TIMER, --dim-timer DIM_TIMER
                        Set the IDLE time before the mouse light is dimmed
                        (seconds, 0 = disable) (from 0 to 1200, default: 30)
  -b BUTTONS_MAPPING, --buttons BUTTONS_MAPPING
                        Set the mapping of the buttonsX (default:
                        buttons(button1=button1; button2=button2;
                        button3=button3; button4=button4; button5=button5;
                        button6=dpi; button7=disabled; button8=disabled;
                        button9=disabled; scrollup=scrollup;
                        scrolldown=scrolldown; layout=qwerty))
  -e, --rainbow-effect  Enable the rainbow effect (can be disabled by setting
                        a color)
  -d DEFAULT_LIGHTING, --default-lighting DEFAULT_LIGHTING
                        Set default lighting at mouse startup (values: off,
                        reactive, rainbow, reactive-rainbow, default: rainbow)
  -r, --reset           Reset all settings to their factory default
  --battery-level       Print the battery level of the mouse and exit

Please report any bug on Github: https://github.com/flozz/rivalcfg/issues

Sensitivity (DPI)

This mouse supports up to 5 sensitivity presets. You can define them like this:

rivalcfg --sensitivity 800       # one preset
rivalcfg --sensitivity 800,1600  # two presets

You can switch preset using the button under the mouse wheel.

Note

When you set the sensitivity through the CLI, the selected preset always back to the first one.

Note

From Python API, you can pass an int, a tuple or a list as parameter. You are also able to change the currently selected preset:

mouse.sensitivity(800)
mouse.sensitivity("800, 1600")
mouse.sensitivity([800, 1600])
# select the second preset (1600 dpi)
mouse.sensitivity([800, 1600, 2000, 4000], selected_preset=2)

Colors

This mouse supports colors. Various formats are supported.

Hexadecimal notation

You can use a 24 bit hexadecimal notation (like in HTML / CSS documents). Example of “red” color using hexadecimal notation:

  • #FF0000

  • FF0000

  • #F00

  • F00

Named Colors

The folowing named colors are supported:

white

red

lime

blue

silver

maroon

green

navy

gray

yellow

aqua

fuchsia

black

olive

teal

purple

RGB Tuple (Python API only)

If you are using the Python API (not the command line interface), you can also pass colors as RGB tuple or list:

  • (255, 0, 0)

  • [255, 0, 0]

Important

On newer SteelSeries mice, the color settings are not saved in the onboard memory anymore (see Default Lighting bellow).

Rainbow Effect

The Aerox 5 offers an onboard rainbow light effect. Please note that the effect is reset if you change colors.

Default Lighting

The color setting is not saved in the onboard memory on this device. You can only define if the light goes blank or rainbow at startup.

Supported values are:

  • off: All LEDs are off when the mouse wakes up. Clicking on mouse buttons will not trigger light reaction.

  • reactive: All LEDs are off when the mouse wakes up. Clicking on mouse buttons will trigger a light reaction.

  • rainbow: LEDs display an animated rainbow effect when the mouse wakes up. Clicking on mouse buttons will not trigger a light reaction.

  • reactive-rainbow: LEDs display an animated rainbow effect when the mouse wakes up. Clicking on mouse buttons will trigger a light reacion.

Examples:

rivalcfg --default-lighting off
rivalcfg --default-lighting reactive-rainbow

Buttons

Aerox 5 buttons schema

This mouse supports buttons mapping. Buttons can be mapped with:

  • some special actions,

  • mouse buttons,

  • multimedia keys,

  • and keyboard keys.

The general syntax for buttons mapping is the following:

buttons(layout=<LAYOUT>; button1=<mapping1>; buttonN=<mappingN>)

Example:

rivalcfg --buttons "buttons(layout=QWERTY; button1=button1; button2=PlayPause; button3=disabled; button5=A; button6=DPI)"

Arguments:

  • layout: The keyboard layout to use when papping the keys (see the “Mapping Keyboard Keys” section bellow).

  • button1: The first button of the mouse.

  • button2: The second button of the mouse.

  • buttonN: The Nth button of the mouse (The number of available buttons depends of the mouse model).

Note

All parameters are optional. If you do not define a mapping for a specific button, it will be reset to its default value.

You can also reset all buttons to their factory default by passing "default" as parameter:

rivalcfg --buttons default

Warning

Be sure to map the mouse button button1 on some button, else you will not be able to click with the mouse!

Mapping Special Actions

The following special actions are available¹:

  • disabled: disable the button,

  • dpi: use this button to switch between DPI presets,

  • ScrollUp: simulate a scroll up (not available on all devices¹)

  • ScrollDown: simulate a scroll down (not available on all devices¹)

Example:

buttons(button4=disabled; button5=disabled; button6=DPI)

Note

¹ The ScrollUp and ScrollDown actions are not available on all devices.

  • Rival 300 / Rival: OK

  • Sensei [RAW]: Not supported

Mapping Mouse Buttons

Mouse buttons can be mapped to any other mouse button.

For example, this swaps the 1 and 2 buttons of the mouse:

buttons(button1=button2; button2=button1)

Mapping Multimedia Keys

Mouse buttons can be mapped to multimedia keys. The following keys are available:

  • Mute: turn off the sound

  • Next: play next media

  • PlayPause: toggle play / pause on the currently playing media

  • Previous: play the previous media

  • VolumeUp: increase the volume

  • VolumeDown: decrease the volume

Example:

buttons(button4=VolumeDown; button5=VolumeUp)

Mapping Keyboard Keys

Mouse buttons can be mapped to any keyboard key, using different layouts.

To select the desired layout, just use the layout parameter. If this parameter is not specified, the QWERTY layout will be used by default.

Available layouts:

The available keys depend on the selected layout.

Example:

buttons(layout=QWERTY; button7=PageDown; button8=PageUp)

Note

Some characters like ; or = cannot be used as a key identifier as they interfere with the buttons() syntax. For those keys, use one of the available aliases, like semicolon (instead of ;) or equal (instead of =).

Example:

buttons(button4=semicolon; button5=equal)

Python API

TODO