steampride

Easily set the Steam Machine's LED light bar to colored patterns. A single-file Python script with no dependencies, for SteamOS.

Download steampride.gz

Installation

On your Steam Machine, switch to Desktop mode and open a terminal (Konsole), then run:

curl -LO https://davidcwga.github.io/steampride/steampride.gz
gunzip steampride.gz
chmod +x steampride

That's it. SteamOS already includes Python, and the script needs nothing else. Optionally move it somewhere on your PATH:

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
mv steampride ~/.local/bin/

Usage

Steam only reads the LED configuration when it starts, so steampride will offer to shut Steam down before applying a pattern. Your new colors appear the next time Steam starts (for example when you return to Game mode).

steampride pride              # the classic rainbow flag
steampride trans              # transgender flag
steampride --list             # show all presets, in color
steampride red white blue     # your own stripes
steampride '#ff8800' -b 60%   # solid color, 60% brightness
steampride --off              # turn the light bar off
steampride --show             # show the current LED settings

Presets: pride, progress, trans, bi, pan, nonbinary, lesbian, ace, aro, agender, genderfluid, genderqueer, intersex.

Custom patterns take two or more COLOR[:WIDTH] bands (colors can be CSS names, hex, or r,g,b triplets), or a pattern file in ~/.config/steampride/patterns. Use -n for a dry run, and see steampride --help for everything else.

Safety

steampride edits only the LED settings inside Steam's localconfig.vdf, leaving every other byte of the file untouched. It refuses to write if the file doesn't look exactly as expected, writes atomically, and keeps a daily backup next to the original.

David Glover-Aoki