# Colorful 2F4C:1018: reconstructing a motherboard ARGB HID interface

> Colorful 2F4C:1018 reconstructs the HID commands used to drive a COLORFIRE motherboard's ARGB headers from vendor-app analysis and live probing. It identifies interface 2 as the lighting channel and documents 20-LED data reports followed by commit reports. Included OpenRGB controller code sends direct frames and host-rendered effects.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Protocol
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-08
- Original resource: <https://github.com/czw63/colorful-2f4c-openrgb>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/czw63/colorful-2f4c-openrgb/blob/5af8761e1ffa9e2e7e58c65ac7cbe408d7a30ef0/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/colorful-2f4c-openrgb-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/colorful-2f4c-openrgb-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/colorful-2f4c-openrgb-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The documented test hardware is a COLORFIRE B850M-MEOW WIFI7 V14 with HID ID 2F4C:1018.
- **Prerequisites:** The supplied driver sources must be built into an OpenRGB checkout; reported testing used CachyOS, kernel 7.x and OpenRGB 0.9+ git.
- **Limits:** Firmware animation modes remain unimplemented because their parameters are only partly understood.
- **License:** GPL-2.0 license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/czw63/colorful-2f4c-openrgb/blob/5af8761e1ffa9e2e7e58c65ac7cbe408d7a30ef0/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/czw63/colorful-2f4c-openrgb/blob/5af8761e1ffa9e2e7e58c65ac7cbe408d7a30ef0/REVERSE_ENGINEERING.md>

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