Ports, Cables

You can find a cylindrical panel at the top left of the mouse pad. It contains a button for changing lighting brightness or effect style (according to the software setting, more on that later), a USB port, and a micro USB port for powering up the Qi charger. There is also an LED indicator for the Qi charger that lights up once you start charging a device with the mouse pad.

Since this mouse pad was widely marketed with the ROG Gladius II Wireless mouse on top of it, I naturally thought it can charge that mouse while it's being used, but that is unfortunately not the case since the mouse doesn't support the function. However, it can be used with various devices that have the option to be charged wirelessly.


There's quite a lot going on with cables, but it all makes sense after a while. The pad itself has a very thick, braided cable output that's actually two cables in one. One of these two connectors (marked with Pad) is for the lighting, while the other is for powering the USB port on the panel. There's also another, non-braided cable in the box for powering the Qi charging port.

Software and Lighting

It's quite rare for a mouse pad to come with software (remember those old mouse pad driver jokes?), but the Balteus Qi is quite the flagship with a ton of RGB options, so it's understandable. ASUS ROG Armoury is a well-made program overall; it's fast, intuitive, works without flaws, and has a rather nice design once you get the hang of it. ASUS ROG Armoury takes up 362 MB of disk space and consumes about 22 MB of memory while running in the background on my configuration.

You can choose between three profiles in the left-side panel, and each profile is configurable. The Accessory main tab contains two pages. On the Buttons page, you can set the head panel button to either tune the brightness or switch between lighting effects. The Lighting page has most of the lighting controls. You can choose between a ton of different effects and can also customize which of 15 zones you want to light up. The Macro and Stats tabs are for mice and keyboards only, but the Sync tab lets you enable ROG Aura Sync and set one of three different effects to it.

I also made a video to demonstrate the lighting effects.

Many ASUS peripherals support a feature called Aura Sync, which is an option to synchronize lighting across different devices. There are only three modes for Aura Sync: static, breathing, and color cycle. I made a video demonstrating these with a Balteus Qi and Gladius II Wireless.