# ssmouse: a client for the Rival 3 Wireless HID protocol

> ssmouse implements a client for the SteelSeries Rival 3 Wireless HID protocol recovered from SteelSeries GG. Its Rust tray app and CLI read battery and device events and set DPI, polling, lighting, buttons and power options; the repository documents report framing and commands.

- 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/ViktorPetrov0605/ssmouse>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/ViktorPetrov0605/ssmouse/blob/c515a307ac26e309672bd1be02a3a7ad397653f8/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ssmouse-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ssmouse-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ssmouse-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** SteelSeries Rival 3 Wireless with USB ID 1038:1830; the author reports hardware checks on firmware 1.04.
- **Prerequisites:** Linux, Windows or macOS; building from source requires Rust 1.89 or newer.
- **Prerequisites:** Firmware extraction from SteelSeries GG installers requires 7-Zip.
- **License:** MIT licence.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/ViktorPetrov0605/ssmouse/blob/c515a307ac26e309672bd1be02a3a7ad397653f8/README.md>

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