Flow X13 + XG Mobile

[Wolper321]

Hi.

First I want to thank you for your work. I have the Flow x13 (2022) without GPU (RA version) and the XGM 6850m XT.
Overall the performance modes work as expected: Silent 80W, Performance 100W and Turbo boosts XGM GPU to 165W.
In Armoury crate the second fan which supposes to be GPU called AUX. fan since the laptop doesn't have dgpu so I cannot tell if Ghelper detects the XGM fan at all. There should be 3 fans to control as in Armoury Crate (CPU + GPU (AUX) + XGM).
The biggest issue so far is no control over the XGM activation/deactivation. It will be awesome if this will be implemented somehow in the future because for me it's the only thing stopping me from fully switching to Ghelper.

[seerge]

@Wolper321 hello, I don't own XGM mobile, so for me it's difficult to discover how to control it without physical device :)
There is a topic for endpoint discovery #38 where you can participate, mb you will spot endpoint responsible for enabling / disabling external GPU? :)

[seerge]

@Wolper321 ok, i can try to add a button in GPU section turning XGM on/off if it's connected (literally doing what command from powershell does).

Does you device support ultimate mode as well ?

[Wolper321]

Good question about the ultimate mode. My device doesn't have any modes since there is no dGPU. Probably permanent eco mode. But I am almost sure that there is a selection of modes for all the other people with dGPU (majority of z13, x13 and x16 users). So actually when XGM eGPU deactivates the internal dGPU should activate and I don't know how it will behave with the switch.
Maybe some of the other users can test it.

[seerge]

GHelper.zip
You can try this build, i have added dedicated XGM button that will work as simple ON/OFF switch for XG Mobile
Button should be visible only if XGM is connected.
App will check for "connection" every time it starts OR every time it's main window is being displayed (i.e. click on m4 or tray icon)

[Wolper321]

I have tried it and it is working as you described. When I fully unplug the device the XG mobile button disappeared and reappeared when I plug it back. Unfortunately, it didn't activate well, the red light appeared (it means that it's in use) but GPU didn't activate. After restarting everything started to work as expected.
Happened to me once or twice when Armoury Crate asked me to restart for XGM to work. So I guess now the user should have some deduction abilities to use it :D Thank you!

[seerge]

@Wolper321 ok, cool. As for activation / reactivation - app just runs same command as you did manually in powershell. It could be that bios is acting here, but it's not much I can do here I think :)