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SH Unofficial Linux counterpart of the ALPHA app for the 480x480 LCD in Xigmatek Connect AIO coolers: the USB serial protocol, measured on real hardware
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xigmalcd — system stats on the Xigmatek Connect AIO’s built-in LCD
penguin standing in front of a Connect AIO water block, whose LCD reads 39°C”>
Linux counterpart of the Windows ALPHA app that ships with Xigmatek Connect
series AIO coolers. Those coolers have a 480×480 LCD in a USB port header on the
water block; on Windows the vendor app draws CPU/GPU temps, clocks and fan speeds on
it. On Linux the panel shows up as a plain CDC-ACM serial port (/dev/ttyACM0) and
nothing talks the protocol — until now.
This repo draws the same information from Linux sensors and pushes it to the panel as
PNG frames. Verified on real hardware (Connect 360, firmware V1.2.3): handshake,
metrics blob and picture upload all work from Kubuntu — the drawn frame is what the
display shows.
Unofficial, and it says so. Nothing here is affiliated with, endorsed by or
approved by XIGMATEK; Xigmatek, Connect and ALPHA are their owner’s names. The
code — xigmalcd/, xigmaui/, tools/, install/ — is GPL-3.0-or-later (LICENSE),
and the vendor’s own files this repo carries as evidence and test assets are labelled
as such wherever they appear (“Licence”, at the end).