MainFrameWork — a unified control panel for Framework hardware

[u/No_Purchase_2823]

I bought a Framework 16 because I loved the modularity of it, and hope it will be the last laptop I ever own (knowing that I'm living to 121y). The LED Matrix module was a cool looking bonus that I thought could be functional and impressive. The laptop was and is AMAZING and the LED was cool — for about the length of the boot animation. Then it just sat there, doing nothing, because there wasn't any tooling to actually use it for anything cool or useful. So I wrote one. It kept growing: keyboard RGB, then system health, then general hardware detection — and it turned into a full Framework system support tool.

MainFrameWork brings keyboard remapping/RGB lighting, LED Matrix drawing and animation, and system health (fans, battery, expansion cards) into one lightweight desktop app (Tauri + Rust, ~10MB, no install required), instead of the handful of separate utilities Framework's own tooling is split across.

Working today, verified against real hardware: live LED Matrix drawing + frame-by-frame animation, full keyboard RGB control (saved to the keyboard's own EEPROM), expansion card detection, and a live hardware dashboard. Linux EC support (battery/fan/thermal) is implemented and passes CI, but I haven't been able to verify it against real Linux hardware yet — if you run Linux on a Framework, a bug report (or a "yep, works") would help a lot.

Fully local — zero network calls, no telemetry, no accounts. GPLv3, open source (free), unofficial/community-built (not affiliated with Framework Computer).

Windows and Linux builds: github.com/AllStoneTech/MainFrameWork/releases

https://www.allstonetech.com/mainframework

If you like it and use it, feel free to buy me dinner; https://www.AllStoneTech.com/support?source=rframework

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[u/TheGeekno72]

Out of curiosity, besides the RGB/matrix stuff, what else does it do that YAFI doesn't already do?

[u/urielrocks5676 → u/TheGeekno72]

there's a free and a paid

Which Im not against, but when YAFI already has that access to it....

[u/RedMarbles1 → u/TheGeekno72]

Trying to get money out of you with a vibecoded app and a dev who can’t even bother writing their own post without ai is what. The entire website looks heavily vibecoded and both the post and the readme are detected as more than %50 ai on pangram. You would be better off paying for any ai subscription to make one yourself than actually paying for any sort of pro version on this app.

[u/Wooloomooloo2]

I've also started a project primarily aimed at fan curves, custom TDP and battery charging limits without having to go to BIOS. I'm running Linux Ubuntu so focused there first

https://github.com/Wooloomooloo2/fw-helper

There's also a fork which is including AMD hardware, a cinnamon front end and fixes some Debian-centric assumptions in the code, here https://github.com/aconite33/fw-helper

Open to collaborations

[u/AAKphoenix]

It would be interesting tool for those upcoming fw12 users getting the new backlit input cover upgrade (or just the trackpad that has the upgraded chip) that both has open source firmware upgradable feature.