Arctis Battery Indicator

Adds a small icon to the "system tray" area of the Windows task bar, which displays the battery level of any connected SteelSeries Arctis headset.

Features

• Works on Windows 10+
• Built using Rust, with very low resource usage (<1MB RAM)
• Supports all known Arctis headsets

Installation

• Download the latest release .zip file
• Extract all of the files into any folder (like Downloads).
• Right click Install.ps1 and run the PowerShell script.

You can also update the program by downloading a new version and running Install.ps1.

How to uninstall

Simply remove all of the files in %localAppData%\ArctisBatteryIndicator (copy the path, press Win+R and paste the path to enter)

The installer also creates a file in %appData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup to run the program on startup.

Troubleshooting

If you're experiencing crashes or other issues, you can try running the arctis-battery-indicator-debug.exe located at %localAppData%\ArctisBatteryIndicator or look at the log file located in the same folder.

Why does it only show 100%, 75%, 50%, 25% or 0%?

This is limitation of the headsets themselves, as the devices only expose 5 possible battery states.

My headset is connected, but it still shows "No headphone adapter found"

Your headset might be unsupported due to being a newer model. Either create a new issue or see Adding a new headset

Connection status updates slowly / unreliably

Often the adapter (plugged into your PC) is really slow at updating its information whenever something happens, like headphones disconnecting / reconnecting. I haven't found a way to work around this yet. Shutting down the SteelSeries GG app may help on some occasions.

Development

Rust and Cargo need to be installed.

• Running the application: cargo run --release

• Installing the application locally: cargo install

• Debugging the application: press F5 in VS Code with the Rust Analyzer extension and CodeLLDB installed.

Todo

• Show rough estimations for battery remaining battery life (in hours)
• Updated icons to show charging states, etc.

Adding a new headset

Add a new entry to the bottom of KNOWN_HEADPHONES in headphone_models.rs and submit a new pull request.

The parameters, such as write_bytes and battery_percent_idx can be discovered by sniffing the USB traffic with something like WireShark and USBPcap

I have a post on my website explaining how to do this: https://aarol.dev/posts/arctis-hid