DIY option to have Steelseries keyboard and/or mouse with OLED screen show your Roon now playing information

Tinkering Roon API
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After this post: Anyone here able to create something like the elgato plugin for Steelseries devices? - Tinkering / Roon API - Roon Labs Community I went ahead and tried to build something myself.

If you know node, git and have a Mac this could work for you too:

I like the use of the OLED screen:

Feedback is allowed, just not sure I will get around to it :slight_smile:

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Got it running on Windows, just need to add these two lines to the imports at the top

import process from "process";
var env = process.env;

and then replace this line:

    let rawdata = fs.readFileSync('/Library/Application Support/SteelSeries Engine 3/coreProps.json');

with this:

    let rawdata = fs.readFileSync(env.ALLUSERSPROFILE+'\\SteelSeries\\SteelSeries Engine 3\\coreProps.json');

I did find that if my Zone has spaces in the name, that I needed to replace the spaces with hyphens in in index.js.

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pretty sure one could use the value of process.platform do determine the proper readFileSync line of code to use based on OS, but I haven’t messed with it.

Edit:
I actually just forked the repo and implemented it, just submitted a pull request with Windows support added in.

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@SlyBlue curious if this version works for you.

Made an Electron Tray app of it.
Screenshot 2022-01-20 at 13.58.37

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Oh wow I like that dropdown, as someone who uses multiple Zones at my desk (Speakers and Headphones) that is super handy.
It seems to throw an error when starting up:

> roon-steelseries-tray@1.0.0 start
> electron-forge start

√ Checking your system
√ Locating Application
√ Preparing native dependencies
√ Launching Application

App threw an error during load
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'hide')
    at Object.<anonymous> (E:\roon-steelseries-nowplaying-tray-main\app.js:3:10)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1116:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1169:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:988:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:829:12)
    at Function.c._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:5:13331)
    at loadApplicationPackage (E:\roon-steelseries-nowplaying-tray-main\node_modules\electron\dist\resources\default_app.asar\main.js:110:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (E:\roon-steelseries-nowplaying-tray-main\node_modules\electron\dist\resources\default_app.asar\main.js:222:9)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1116:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1169:10)
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Ah yes, makes sense, I try to hide the app from the taskbar on MacOSX (Dock).

Updated the code to only try this on MacOSX for now.

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awesome, yeah it is working great now! Thank you for making this