Hacking The Corsair Commander Pro - github.com/crmaris/pCUE

The video is in Greek so I have to provide an English description. Long story short: I wanted a good PWM fan controller for my tests, and the Corsair Commander Pro looked the best option since it is affordable, and there is support from the community, so finding out the communications protocol was easy. The main problem is the iCUE application, which is complicated, and even for everyday tasks like changing the fan speed, it takes time. It is weird, but it is not straightforward to do a simple thing like changing the fan speed! You have to dive into menus and graphics to make the selection, and another problem is that iCUE is huge! It takes close to 700 MB in my system! Finally, I wanted to use the fan change and monitoring options in an application that I built for running thermal tests on chassis, so I had to do it the hard way. Since I already found out the comms protocol, I thought to make a new app from scratch offering a straightforward and fast way to change the fan speed with the Corsair Commander Pro. My program, which I call pCUE, aka plain CUE, is much smaller (304 kB) than iCUE, and it doesn&require installation or drivers to work. You just run the program and control your fans. If you want to know the CPU temperature, you will have to run it along with GPU-Z, which can be started directly from pCUE. I am sorry for this, but the API to have CPU information is expensive, and I don&make anything out of pCUE, to buy it. Finally, the pCUE was made with C# WPF.