Inari

This is a fork of NC1107/sink that adds control for SteelSeries headsets, the base-station OLED, the Aerox mouse and the Apex keyboards, plus a Tokyo Night theme. All the original Sink audio-mixing work is by @NC1107 — please support the upstream project (see Credits). Hardware support here is Linux-only and specific to the author's devices; upstream deliberately keeps it out of the main app.

Inari — SteelSeries Sonar for Linux. Built on PipeWire.

Route each app to its own channel - Game, Chat, Music - and control volume, mute, and output device per channel. Build mixes for OBS and a processed virtual microphone for voice chat.

 apps ─► channels ─► your ears
              └────► a Mix ─► OBS / recorder

Features

• Channels - per-app routing with volume, mute, meters, and a choice of output device per channel
• Apps - running apps appear automatically; assign once, remembered forever
• Mixes - recordable sources for OBS. Master Mix carries everything; custom mixes can carry "everything except music" and stay current as channels change. In OBS, add a mix as an audio input - not Desktop Audio.
• Equalizer - per-channel parametric EQ (up to 10 bands) with a draggable response curve, bundled community presets, and import/export including AutoEq text blocks
• Microphone - noise gate, compressor and limiter into a virtual mic you select in Discord or OBS. Pairs well with NoiseTorch on the input for noise suppression before the chain.
• Profiles - save and switch full layouts from the tray
• Headset - full control of a SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless base station over USB (no root, no SteelSeries GG): live battery, ANC / transparency, sidetone, mic volume & mute-LED, 10-band hardware EQ, auto-off, wireless speed/range, line-out, and a ChatMix read-out. See docs/headset.md.
• OLED - drive the base station's 128×64 display: live dashboard, system monitor (CPU/RAM/GPU), now playing, desktop-notification mirroring, text, built-in animations, and your own images / GIFs / videos, scaled and dithered on the fly.
• Mouse - SteelSeries Aerox 9 Wireless: DPI presets, polling rate, per-zone RGB, reactive lighting, sleep and dim timeouts, battery.
• Keyboard - SteelSeries Apex (Pro / 7 / 5 / 9, Gen 1-3, wired or wireless): per-key RGB you paint on a to-scale key map, host-rendered effects (wave, gradient, breathing, audio-reactive) plus the firmware's own reactive and colour-shift modes, and the 128x40 OLED with clock, system monitor, now playing and your own text. Verified on an Apex Pro TKL Wireless (2023) - see the keyboard page for what is measured and what is not.
• Themes - ships the original look plus a Tokyo Night palette, switchable in Settings.

Screenshots

Equalizer — per-channel parametric EQ with a draggable curve	Microphone — gate, compressor and limiter into a virtual mic
Apps — running apps, assigned once and remembered	Headset — Arctis Nova Pro Wireless control over USB
OLED — drive the base station's 128×64 display	Mouse — Aerox 9 Wireless: DPI, polling, RGB, battery

Install

Quick start (Debian / Ubuntu) — install or update to the latest release in one line:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fbnlrz/Inari/main/get-inari.sh | bash

Or with wget:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fbnlrz/Inari/main/get-inari.sh | bash

This grabs the latest .deb from the releases and installs it with apt (pulling in any runtime dependencies). Re-run it any time to update. Prefer to read it first? See get-inari.sh. Uninstall with curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fbnlrz/Inari/main/get-inari.sh | bash -s -- --uninstall.

Build and install from source (any distro)

git clone https://github.com/fbnlrz/inari && cd inari
./install.sh

install.sh installs the build/runtime dependencies for Debian/Ubuntu (and derivatives like Mint, Pop!_OS), Fedora and Arch, builds the release binary, and installs the app, its desktop entry and the udev rule that lets Inari talk to SteelSeries devices without root. Useful flags: --deps-only, --no-deps, --uninstall (uninstall keeps your ~/.config/inari).

Debian / Ubuntu — manual dependencies

If you would rather do it by hand:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y build-essential curl wget file pkg-config \
  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev librsvg2-dev \
  libssl-dev libxdo-dev libpipewire-0.3-dev clang ffmpeg
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh   # if you have no Rust
npm install && ./node_modules/.bin/tauri build --no-bundle
sudo install -Dm755 target/release/inari /usr/bin/inari

ffmpeg is optional and only needed to play videos on the headset OLED.

Prebuilt packages

Every release ships prebuilt Linux bundles on the Releases page. They are x86_64 / amd64 only — there is no ARM/aarch64 build. Grab the one for your distro and install it directly:

Debian / Ubuntu / Mint

sudo apt install ./Inari_*_amd64.deb

Fedora

sudo dnf install ./Inari-*.x86_64.rpm

openSUSE

sudo zypper install ./Inari-*.x86_64.rpm

These install the app properly - launcher entry, icon, uninstall through your package manager.

Any other distro - AppImage (portable, no root)

chmod +x Inari_*_amd64.AppImage
./Inari_*_amd64.AppImage

To get a launcher entry for an AppImage, use Gear Lever or AppImageLauncher.

Requires PipeWire with pipewire-pulse and WirePlumber 0.5+ (the default on most current distros).

Build

npm install
npm run tauri dev      # run
npm run tauri build    # package

Config lives in ~/.config/inari as plain JSON. Upgrading from the upstream Sink? Run ./migrate-to-inari.sh once to move your existing ~/.config/sink over (see the script for details).

Credits

This is a fork. The original Sink — all the PipeWire audio mixing, the channels/mixes/EQ/mic work, and the app itself — is by @NC1107: NC1107/sink. If you find Sink useful, please support the upstream project.

The SteelSeries hardware protocols used by this fork were learned from these projects, whose reverse-engineering made the headset, OLED, mouse and keyboard support possible:

• Sapd/HeadsetControl
• elegos/Linux-Arctis-Manager
• loteran/Arctis-Sound-Manager
• flozz/rivalcfg - the Aerox commands
• OpenRGB - the Apex per-key lighting report and its 112-entry key order
• not-jan/apex-tux and llMBQll/OmniLED - the Apex OLED transports

Not affiliated with or endorsed by SteelSeries.

Support this fork

If the SteelSeries additions are useful to you:

License

GPL-3.0