OMEN Gaming Hub is corporate malware - any alternatives for controlling performance and fan speeds?

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  • OmenHubLight

    Discontinued OMEN Hub Light is an opensource and lightweight substitute for a series programs from HP.

  • Non tinkerer answer: no Otherwise: Maybe, specially if you are a programmer, take a look at this project https://github.com/determ1ne/OmenHubLight (it supposedly supports four zones rgb and fan control), or this one https://github.com/alou-S/omen-fan which is for linux, but should give you an idea of what has to be done and maybe port it to windows using ec-probe utility from https://github.com/hirschmann/nbfc, and last but not least the hp-wmi linux driver https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c which has some of the gaming hub features ported.

  • omen-fan

    Utility to control fans in Omen laptops

  • Non tinkerer answer: no Otherwise: Maybe, specially if you are a programmer, take a look at this project https://github.com/determ1ne/OmenHubLight (it supposedly supports four zones rgb and fan control), or this one https://github.com/alou-S/omen-fan which is for linux, but should give you an idea of what has to be done and maybe port it to windows using ec-probe utility from https://github.com/hirschmann/nbfc, and last but not least the hp-wmi linux driver https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c which has some of the gaming hub features ported.

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  • nbfc

    NoteBook FanControl

  • Non tinkerer answer: no Otherwise: Maybe, specially if you are a programmer, take a look at this project https://github.com/determ1ne/OmenHubLight (it supposedly supports four zones rgb and fan control), or this one https://github.com/alou-S/omen-fan which is for linux, but should give you an idea of what has to be done and maybe port it to windows using ec-probe utility from https://github.com/hirschmann/nbfc, and last but not least the hp-wmi linux driver https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c which has some of the gaming hub features ported.

  • linux

    Linux kernel source tree

  • Non tinkerer answer: no Otherwise: Maybe, specially if you are a programmer, take a look at this project https://github.com/determ1ne/OmenHubLight (it supposedly supports four zones rgb and fan control), or this one https://github.com/alou-S/omen-fan which is for linux, but should give you an idea of what has to be done and maybe port it to windows using ec-probe utility from https://github.com/hirschmann/nbfc, and last but not least the hp-wmi linux driver https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c which has some of the gaming hub features ported.

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