Issue with Cyborg AMBX light and Windows 10.

I was writing a long post detailing about how I did it, but got sidetracked.

Essentially, I used pycyborg. It was originally authored by gryphius, but I used the Overboard fork since he fixed the install script for Windows.

Basically follow their install procedure. This is much easier if you have a second computer since you need to replace the drivers with a generic libusb driver and switching between the two is a pain.

1. Install Python

2. Download and extract the pycyborg files.

3. Install the AMBX cyborg lights w/libusb-win32 drivers. Download Zadig and open it. Options -> List all devices. Then from the main dropdown menu, I found the Cyborg lights, and to the right of the green arrow, I selected libusb-win32 and installed that driver.

4. Install pyusb. This is done by opening a command prompt and entering

    pip install pyusb
   

Test if the lights work, in a command prompt, change directory to where you extracted the pycyborg files and enter the line

python setup.py install

Some text will show up. Keep an eye out for any error messages. Next run the command:

python identify.py

This runs the identification script. Your connected light(s) will one by one cycle through some colors. Some text will be shown, and you will likely see a light with Location: [None]. This is good because this is the problem we expect to encounter.

We now need to manually change the location. I ended up doing a hack job of a modification to one of the existing scripts in the folder. In a text editor (IDLE will be installed by default), open the setcolor.py file. Save it as a new file, e.g. setlocation.py.

At the end of the file, you will have the lines of code:

    for cy in cyborgs:
    if options.verbose:
        print("Changing : %s"%cy)
    if options.intensity!=None:
        cy.set_intensity(options.intensity)
    cy.set_rgb_color(r,g,b,force=True)

which I changed to:

    for cy in cyborgs:
    if options.verbose:
        print("Changing : %s"%cy)
    cy.set_position("N")
    cy.set_intensity(100)

If you know which position you want the light to be, use that instead of cy.set_position. Valid entries are N, NE, NW, E, W, SE, SW, S, CENTER (case sensitive). You may want to change the intensity value if you normally use something that isn't 100. Save the file.

In the command prompt, run

   python setlocation.py 255 255 255

or whatever new file name you used. In this case, I was lazy and didn't change anything else, so the script is still expecting 3 numbers, but won't do anything with them. This should write the location you specified to the light.

Now if you either go back to your computer with the ambx lights, or uninstall the libusb-32 drivers and reinstall the cyborg drivers, you the lights should now show up in the ambx control panel.

Unfortunately, I found that messing around with ambx control panel some more bugged 2 of my lights again almost immediately. I suspect that this is because amid all the fresh reinstalls of the lights, I hadn't yet disabled the power management stuff. My guess is that the power management stuff interferes with the ambx control panel's ability to properly and completely communicate and write information to the ambx lights, causing the location data to be corrupted and invalid. If you set the correct light position manually, you can pretty much skip having to use the AMBX control panel to position the light and set intensity.

Hope this was understandable, and that it fixes your light issue.