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Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by joshstrange on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:35AM (#28277456)
Logitech/Razer/Corsair, all trash software. Thankfully I was able to work around having to use Razer with some open source software but I'm still stuck with Logitech (Logitech G Hub) for my camera and Corsair (iCue) for my headset. /Every/ /single/ /time/ I join a Zoom/video chat I have to open G Hub to fix the zoom level (set it back to 100%, it's stuck zoomed in ~120%). It's incredibly infuriating to join every meeting zoomed in, have my video freeze for 1-5 seconds when I open the camera settings in G Hub, then have my image pop to the right size (note: I don't have to click anything, just open the camera settings to fix it). Also I have to close (red button in top right of the G Hub window, not full quit) the G Hub window in between meetings (If I leave it up and just back out of the camera settings it won't fix the camera when I click back into the camera). Also sometimes G Hub just doesn't open and it's got 2-4 (lghub, lghub_updater, lghub_agent, lghub Helper) processes that you have to kill in quick succession to really kill the software (or they will restart each other) before you can restart it and try again. It also appears to need an update once a week or so which is fun to find out when you open it to fix the zoom level and have to wait until it finishes updating and relaunching.

Razer was a huge PITA constantly forgetting my config and I couldn't be happier now that I have Karabiner handling everything for my Razer device.

Corsair makes a great wireless headset that plays nice with Mac and has good range (I can walk around almost all of my house and stay connected which is a godsend for Zoom hangouts with friends). Unfortunately, their software, iCue, is trash. It regularly tells me my headset is "Unavailable" when it's working just fine and if I leave my headset off the charger (aka, I don't plug in it) and it goes to sleep then it's a 50-50 chance that it will forget it's config. I couldn't care less about the RGB nonsense on the ear cups but the bright LED on the mic boom (green = on, red = off) is distracting. Thankfully they have a setting to only show the LED when the mic is off (exactly what I want, I want visual confirmation I'm muted). The problem is if it loses it's config that defaults back to always on and I have to do a dance of killing the iCue software and relaunching it until it fixes itself.

Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by iudqnolq on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:42AM (#28277558)
> I don't have to click anything, just open the camera settings to fix it

Fyi I frequently have to open zoom camera settings to make my laptop camera (Linux, darter pro) work. The fault may your case be shared with zoom, which is also a dumpster fire.

Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by joshstrange on Monday August 23, 2021 @11:56AM (#28277822)
That's very fair, I feel like I've tried nuking Zoom from orbit to fix this and it didn't help but there is a chance I've missed something. Thanks for sharing your experience, I'd love nothing more than to be wrong and find a way to fix this in Zoom!
Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by iudqnolq on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:00PM (#28277894)
Sadly I can't help with a fix. I just open the zoom settings and if that fails try restarting random stuff and if that fails reboot my computer.
Re:My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019) by wobblykiwi on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:21PM (#28278236)
iCue is the worst software I've had the pleasure of working with. For months I was trying to debug lag spikes in games I was playing, turning off services, closing every application, using different wireless adapters, even connecting through ethernet was giving me lag spikes. Finally traced it down to iCue doing something in the background where it would pause/block all outbound traffic except for itself for a couple hundred ms every 10 or so seconds. God that was infuriating.