Installation

Prerequisites

• Rust toolchain (stable, 1.70+): Install via rustup
• hidapi system library: Required for USB HID communication

macOS

brew install hidapi

Ubuntu / Debian

sudo apt install libhidapi-dev

Fedora

sudo dnf install hidapi-devel

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/wu-hongjun/StatusLight.git
cd StatusLight
cargo build --workspace --release

The binaries are placed in target/release/:

Binary	Description
statuslight	CLI tool
statuslightd	HTTP daemon

The FFI library is at target/release/libstatuslight_ffi.a (static) and target/release/libstatuslight_ffi.dylib (dynamic).

Install the CLI

cargo install --path crates/statuslight-cli

This installs statuslight to ~/.cargo/bin/.

Verify

statuslight devices

If your Slicky is plugged in, you'll see its serial number and product info. If not, you'll see "No Slicky devices found" — that's expected.

USB Permissions (Linux)

On Linux, you may need a udev rule to access the device without root:

# /etc/udev/rules.d/99-statuslight.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04d8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="ec24", MODE="0666"

Then reload:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger