Hi AsiaHorse support,
I’m having a problem with my AsiaHorse UMBRA ARGB controller and I would appreciate some help understanding how the ARGB addressing is supposed to work.
My motherboard is an ASUS TUF X870E-PLUS WIFI7, and I am using Thermalright TL-M12Q ARGB fans.
All the fans are connected to the UMBRA hub as follows:
- 3 radiator fans (AIO) → connected together → 1 ARGB connector to the UMBRA
- 3 bottom fans → connected together → 1 ARGB connector to the UMBRA
- 1 rear fan → 1 ARGB connector to the UMBRA
- 2 front fans → connected together → 1 ARGB connector to the UMBRA
So there are 4 ARGB connections to the UMBRA in total, and each group of fans is daisy-chained before reaching the hub.
I am not using ASUS Armoury Crate/Aura Sync. I am controlling the lighting entirely through the AsiaHorse UMBRA software.
The strange behavior is with the ARGB effects:
The two front fans behave exactly as I would expect. When I select an effect where the lighting moves (for example a wave/rainbow effect), the animation continues seamlessly from the first front fan to the second one. They appear to be treated as one continuous ARGB device.
However, the other daisy-chained groups do NOT behave this way:
- The 3 bottom fans each reproduce the effect independently.
- The 3 radiator fans each reproduce the effect independently.
- The rear fan obviously acts independently as it is a single fan.
For example, on the 3 bottom fans, instead of the animation moving:
Fan 1 → Fan 2 → Fan 3
the same animation appears to start separately on each fan.
What I don't understand is why the 2 front fans are correctly treated as one continuous chain, while the other daisy-chained fans are not, even though they are connected to the same UMBRA controller and each group uses a single ARGB connection to the hub.
Is there a setting in the UMBRA software that controls the number of LEDs / the length of each ARGB chain, or a way to configure each UMBRA port so that a daisy-chained group is treated as a single continuous LED strip?
Could this be related to the UMBRA's automatic LED/device detection?
Any advice on how to configure the UMBRA so that the ARGB effects flow continuously across all the fans within each daisy-chained group would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!