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Joined: 27/06/2011(UTC)
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New hardware project idea for Pulse-Eight to make a more complete unified ecosystem for HTPC!? Ambilight Lighting Technology as invented by Philips Electronics are a really cool for those who own a Philips television with Ambilight Spectra light effects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz2EjUWCqI4
Uunfortuatly not everyone have a such TV so that they can enjoy this, but did you know that you can buy DIY kit setups for this to build your own Ambilight experience for a Home Theater PC at home? Like example Ambilight4PC, AmBX, MoMoLight, AtmoLight, AtmoLight, and Ambient Reality Effects (A.R.E.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmBX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEydEeumuaw
http://www.ambilight4pc....omolight/momolight.html
It would be even more cooler if Pulse-Eight could make and sell a such finished product boxed with all the LED lights you need that would all work with XBMC with Boblight on a HTPC out-of-the-box without you having to do any of your own soldering or modifications. http://code.google.com/p/boblight/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q94OljzPfc
Is this something that Pulse-Eight might consider making and selling at an relativly affordable price?
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Joined: 27/06/2011(UTC)
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Bob Van Loosen, (the guy behind Boblight) is one of the key members of the CEC Adaptor project, working on a Boblight system is up there as one of the projects we are looking at doing next
Thanks for the links!
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PulseEight wrote:Bob Van Loosen, (the guy behind Boblight) is one of the key members of the CEC Adaptor project, working on a Boblight system is up there as one of the projects we are looking at doing next That sounds awesome! Would like to be able to buy and recommend a complete product for this that just worked for anyone :) Something simular to the finished devices karate light atmolight products sold by www.karatelight.de webshop would be great :) http://translate.google....=en&u=http%3A%2F%2F÷÷ñÒ782577753êÖ5õæwww.karatelight.de%2F Videos on YouTube show demos of XBMC with Karatelight 8 channel ambilight clone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBdusA6EB-I
http://www.youtube.com/w...?v=hZ56ZJL0Ra4&NR=1
[HOWTO] new KARATELIGHT with boblight and XBMC http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=109298
They also sell cheaper karate light kits and offer free diagrams to build your own Atmo DIY ;) 8 channels is a little to few though, I think it needs to be at least 16 channels or more to impress everyone today :P ┌ ─ ─ ─ - - ─ ┐ │ * * * * * * │ │ * # # # # * │ │ * # # # # * │ │ * * * * * * │ └ ─ ─ ─ - - ─ ┘ Video of a DIY mtAtmo build using 18 Satellite S-001 modules and 3 OctoBar LED controllers feed by Boblight via a Arduino Uno :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz2EjUWCqI4
With 16 channels you can cover the corners and the sides of a 16:9 aspect ratio television pretty evenly with differential light :)
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Joined: 01/09/2011(UTC)
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I'm also interested in this - I like the idea of an ambilight setup but don't really have the time at the moment to build one myself. So I'd probably buy a kit for a reasonable price.
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For your information, someone has now released a new unofficial Ambilights addon for XBMC :) http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=110939
This DFAtmo and ita drivers for Atmolight controllers could be the framework code to build on! :D
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Harley wrote:For your information, someone has now released a new unofficial Ambilights addon for XBMC :) http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=110939
This DFAtmo and ita drivers for Atmolight controllers could be the framework code to build on! Official support for this RenderCapture type has now been added to the python script framework XBMC so it will make it into Eden :) http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/448
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/12010
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=111177
That means that all we need now is for Pulse-Eight to sell us Ambilight hardware with an XBMC addon that works out-of-the-box ;)
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FYI; Light-pack project now have an plugin addon available for XBMC integration http://translate.google....ost%2F8909390231%2Fxbmc
Refers to this project page http://code.google.com/p/light-pack/
Only available for XBMC Dharma if I understand corrent.
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Joined: 30/11/2011(UTC)
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I would be interested in a buying a self-build kit or even ready-made, for use with Openelec/XBMC install. Do we have any timescales or idea of projected pricing?
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openelecfan wrote:I would be interested in a buying a self-build kit or even ready-made, for use with Openelec/XBMC install. Do we have any timescales or idea of projected pricing? Not yet, we haven't begun this project
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FYI; XBMC development team have now released an official Boblight Addon for XBMC http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=116331
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Joined: 21/12/2011(UTC) Posts: 5  Location: Roden, The Netherlands
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This still requires a compiled libboblight and boblightd. I'll guess that's not as accessable for everyone over here.
I think it will be much easy'er if some openelec developer will create an build-envirement addon for openelec like the build-essential package is to ubuntu.
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Very cool demos of a 64 channels DIY ambilight using a SEDU-Board V2 with Boblight and XBMC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHmHAdsz3tA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRkSEX_I0V0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecx-L8PCnuI
These are with 2-meter of LED strips = 64 individually controllable RGB LEDs Quote:I bought them along with the SEDU-Board from led-studien.de, because they sell the board as an assembled box and I wanted to avoid as much soldering as I could... ;)
Unfortunately, this page seems to be available in German only and I could not find a definite brand or type. They seem to use 5050 RGB SMD-LEDs and there is "LED ZG16RGB-V3" printed on them. That whole kits cost him about €150 EURO complete with power-supplies, tax, and shipping :) http://shop.led-studien....79b80f7defb349f7a83a999d
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The LiveLight Project is an open source hardware Ambilight clone solution which could be the perfect base http://livelightproject.com/
http://livelightproject.com/design.php
http://livelightproject....ht_5/Assembly_guide.pdf
Quote:FAQ
Question: Can I order ready made device?
Answer: No. LiveLight is a reference desing, you build your own device. Paintpack is quick alternative complete solution would be to simply import and re-sell as a cheaper option http://paintpack.ruhttp://translate.google....tp%3A%2F%2Fpaintpack.ru
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgvs54WgMgM
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Can a moderator please move this thread to the " Ideas and Suggestions" forum? Thanks!
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iBeLight lightning system by RGB Styles (rgb-styles.com) seams to be the most complete kit for XBMC with Boblight to date: http://www.rgb-styles.com/ibelight/
http://www.rgb-styles.com/ibelight/user-guide/
http://www.rgb-styles.com/ibelight/buy/
Quite professional kit, but would still be nice if Pulse-Eight sold a similar Ambilight kit that would be even easier to setup :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2CMDuTrSZU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n0eX__rd4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ZONgvDCCM
Better XBMC integration of all the settings and configurations would also be great so no need for third-party software ;)  
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Joined: 29/06/2012(UTC)
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I'm using Cyborg AmbX lights. It's not bad. It's also developped by Philips team.
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We've looked into this, financially it's not something we can produce at this time, if someone wants a manufacturing partner and wants to order 1000pcs minimum then we could build it
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