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Mystic Light Browser Cinema

Extension for Chromium-based browsers (Chromium, Chrome, Vivaldi, Edge, Yandex.Browser) that allows to disable lighting effects of your Mystic Light compatible (mostly comes under MSI trademark) RGB peripherals and components on event when browser enters fullscreen mode.

Works only with installed Mystic Light and companion app on Windows

 

Why?

Having gaming peripherals and components with fancy RGB led feels great, but it might become annoying while you are trying to watch movies or youtube videos. This extension just allows to automatically disable lighting of these devices when browsers enters fullscreen mode. When browsers leaves fullscreen your device settings will restore to previous state before fullscreen event.

 

 

 

Is my device supported?

  • check your device info - if there any mention of "Mystic Light" then most likely it is supported
  • you can check the Mystic Light compatible products
  • if you have installed "Dragon Center" or "MSI Center" app you will see your device on the Mystic Light tab if it is supported

 

 

 

 

Setup

  1. Make sure you have installed "MSI SDK" program installed on your device. This program is installed with either "Dragon Center" or "MSI Center" app - you can find download links here.
  2. Install native-app
  3. Install browser extension

Native app

  1. Go to releases page
  2. Find latest release
  3. Locate download link with Native-app installer and click on it
  4. After download run it to install native app

To verify that everything is set correctly:

  1. Press Win + R, type services.msc, press enter
  2. Locate Mystic Light Browser Cinema service
  3. If it shows state Running then native-app is working

Browser extension

  1. Install Mystic Light Browser Cinema extension from Chrome Web Store or from github releases page
  2. Navigate to chrome://extensions and click "Details" on the newly installed extension.
  3. Scroll down and make sure the "Allow access to file URLs" is enabled.

To verify that everything is set correctly:

  1. In your browser go to Menu -> More Tools -> Extension
  2. Locate Mystic Light Browser Cinema extension, click Details
  3. Verify that extension and the "Allow access to file URLs" flag are enabled

Uninstall

  • Uninstall "Mystic Light Browser Extension" from your browser
  • Uninstall "Mystic Light Browser Cinema" app from your system through "Add or remove programs" tab in windows settings

Caveats

  • Supports only Windows
  • Changing device state not through Mystic Light app wont be detected by the extension and that will mess up the lighting for you. So prefer to change light effects only through MSI app.
  • Only default %ProgramData% location is supported. E.g. C:\\ProgramData

Troubleshooting

Browser extension shows alert with error "native-app not found"

Make sure you have installed native-app and it is running:

  • open start menu
  • type "Services"
  • open Services app
  • locate "Mystic Light Browser Cinema" service
  • make sure it is in "Running" state. If not try to start it manually
  • if it doesn't help follow this instruction

Device state doesn't reflect browser mode

Make sure you have followed setup instruction and have installed "MSI SDK" and native-app.

If you have everything installed follow this instruction

No answer on my question

Please create Issue on GitHub with detailed report.

Provide next information:

  • screenshot of opened MSI app that shows your Mystic Light compatible devices
  • screenshot of opened Windows Services app that shows that you have running "Mystic Light Browser Cinema" service
  • send as an archive the logs from "C:\ProgramData\Mystic Light\Mystic Light Browser Cinema\logs" folder

How does it work

You can find additional information in the related docs:

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