Software

The LIX Plus Wireless comes with its own lightweight software. All options are accessible through four different tabs. The first page allows for button remapping to mouse, keyboard, media, and macro functions, along with the ability to adjust debounce time, which effectively controls click latency, at a range of 0 to 30 ms in increments of 1. Profile management is present as well. The second page houses CPI adjustment settings for up to six color-coded levels, ranging from 50 to 19,000 CPI in increments of 50 up to 10,000 CPI and increments of 100 at and above 10,100 CPI. Values can be put in directly by double-clicking the value instead of using the slider. Any non-native values are truncated to native ones. Also included are the usual Windows pointer settings, along with polling rate (125/250/500/1000 Hz), LOD (1/2 mm), and angle snapping (on/off) adjustment options. "Ripple control" is disabled by default, but can be enabled to apply smoothing, which lessens jitter at higher CPI steps at the cost of increased motion delay. In my testing, this setting is not functional and ripple control permanently enabled no matter what. A macro editor can be found on the third page. The fourth page contains lighting settings, and is detailed below.

All settings changes are saved to the on-board memory, so the software does not need to be running (or even installed) all the time. On my system, the software had a RAM footprint of 19 MB on average when running in the foreground, which doesn't change when minimized to the system tray. Upon exiting the application, all processes are terminated, as they should be.

Lighting

The LIX Plus Wireless has three physical lighting zones, which are the scroll wheel, logo, and LED strip at the back. For the scroll wheel, one can only choose between the Steady and Breathing lighting effects. For the other zones, six pre-defined lighting effects are available: Steady, Breathing, Streaming, Neon, Paoma, and Colorful Breathing. Colors, transition speed, and brightness can be further customized. Of course, the lighting can also be disabled altogether.

Color accuracy and vibrancy are excellent throughout. Here's a short demonstration video in which I go through the Streaming, Neon, and Colorful Breathing lighting effects:

Battery Life

SPC Gear indicates battery life to be in the range of 40 hours, depending on factors such as polling rate, RGB lighting, and type of usage. The software includes a battery level indicator, but it is highly inaccurate and unreliable, which makes gauging anything impossible.

Using the included USB Type-A to Type-C charging cable, I measured the charging speed during the constant current stage, which sits at around 0.224 A, excluding the current expended for the charging light flashing. The battery has a capacity of 300 mAh.