[RELEASE] Official XBMC boblight Addon

smajor · 2012-03-13 23:00

So what are we talking about then? Smile

I was thinking boblight.conf too Big Grin

schumi2004 · 2012-03-13 23:13

I'm posting my question because i noticed something in beta-j's config.
It's about the color section in boblight.conf

I went back to boblight wiki at google code page and noticed this example.

Code:

[color]

name            red

rgb             FF0000

[color]

name            green

rgb             00FF00

[color]

name            blue

rgb             0000FF

[color]

name            yellow

rgb             FFFF00

adjust          0.5

blacklevel      0.1

gamma           2.3

[color]

name            white

rgb             FFFFFF

adjust          0.3

blacklevel      0.7

gamma           1.6

I'm running boblight on OpenELEC using Arduino Uno R3 and the led strands from Adafruit and so far it's working perfect.
Only playing with some color settings to fit my needs.
In the default config shipped in boblight i only saw RED, GREEN and BLUE but when i saw beta-j's post and reading the wiki i noticed YELLOW and WHITE as well.
Can i add these 2 colors to my config or doesn't that make sense and is it only for certain setups? The led strands i'm using only have RED, GREEN and BLUE so i'm guessing it doesn't make sense to add WHITE and YELLOW to it or am i wrong?

phil65 · 2012-03-14 00:04

(2012-03-13 23:13)schumi2004 Wrote: I'm posting my question because i noticed something in beta-j's config.
It's about the color section in boblight.conf

I went back to boblight wiki at google code page and noticed this example.

Code:

[color] name red rgb FF0000 [color] name green rgb 00FF00 [color] name blue rgb 0000FF [color] name yellow rgb FFFF00 adjust 0.5 blacklevel 0.1 gamma 2.3 [color] name white rgb FFFFFF adjust 0.3 blacklevel 0.7 gamma 1.6

I'm running boblight on OpenELEC using Arduino Uno R3 and the led strands from Adafruit and so far it's working perfect.
Only playing with some color settings to fit my needs.
In the default config shipped in boblight i only saw RED, GREEN and BLUE but when i saw beta-j's post and reading the wiki i noticed YELLOW and WHITE as well.
Can i add these 2 colors to my config or doesn't that make sense and is it only for certain setups? The led strands i'm using only have RED, GREEN and BLUE so i'm guessing it doesn't make sense to add WHITE and YELLOW to it or am i wrong?

white and yellow aren´t used in the lights section so they do not have any effect. they only make sense if you have yellow leds for example if I understand it correctly.
btw, to get the colors right i added an adjust=0.65 for blue. colors fit very well now. don´tknow if that counts for blue leds in general.

beta-j · 2012-03-14 13:14

(2012-03-13 00:51)phil65 Wrote: which software did you take for your arduino?

here it is:

Code:

void setup()

{

  Serial.begin(38400);

}

  //arduno

  uint8_t outputs[] = {9, 10, 11};

#define NROUTPUTS (sizeof(outputs))

uint8_t values[NROUTPUTS];

void loop()

{

  WaitForPrefix();

  for (uint8_t i = 0; i < NROUTPUTS; i++)

  {

    while(!Serial.available());

    values[i] = Serial.read();

  }

  for (uint8_t i = 0; i < NROUTPUTS; i++)

    analogWrite(outputs[i], values[i]);

}

//boblightd needs to send 0×55 0xAA before sending the channel bytes

void WaitForPrefix()

{

  uint8_t first=0, second=0;

  while (second !=0x55 || first !=0xAA);

  {

    while (!Serial.available());

    second = first;

    first = Serial.read();

  }

}

(2012-03-13 11:48)phil65 Wrote:
(2012-03-13 11:27)smajor Wrote:
(2012-03-10 12:08)beta-j Wrote: So if i'm understanding correctly - since I have a single RGB LED strip, the number of channels in boblight.conf should be 3 and it should use channels 1,2 and 3 no?

I tried setting it with 6 channels and using 4,5 and 6 as well as 3 channels using 1,2 and 3 but no luck so far.

25 leds are 75 channels, 50 leds are 150 channels and so on
how many leds do You have on that strip?

no, wrong. three channels for one strip, not for one led.

We need to distinguish between the different kinds of LED strips that are available. The one I'm using is simply a string of some 25 LEDs connected in parallel - i.e. the entire strip only has 4 pins (R,G,B and GND).

However i know there are other LED strips which allow for addressing of each LED individually (not sure how these work though).

smajor · 2012-03-14 14:13

(2012-03-13 23:13)schumi2004 Wrote: I'm running boblight on OpenELEC using Arduino Uno R3 and the led strands from Adafruit and so far it's working perfect.

Have You seen this?
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/810
Do You think adalight would work with this too.
$25 fullhd player would be nice. 8)

schumi2004 · 2012-03-14 15:00

(2012-03-14 00:04)phil65 Wrote: -cut-
btw, to get the colors right i added an adjust=0.65 for blue. colors fit very well now. don´tknow if that counts for blue leds in general.

Thanks. I'm going to try this and see if it's betetr as my current config.

Currently i have:
[color]
name red
rgb CC0000
[color]
name green
rgb 00FF00
[color]
name blue
rgb 0000DD

(2012-03-14 14:13)smajor Wrote:
(2012-03-13 23:13)schumi2004 Wrote: I'm running boblight on OpenELEC using Arduino Uno R3 and the led strands from Adafruit and so far it's working perfect.

Have You seen this?
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/810
Do You think adalight would work with this too.
$25 fullhd player would be nice. 8)

I have seen it but i doubt if it will be powerful enough. XBMC will probably work but i don't know what to expect from the performance it delivers. From what i know Boblight itself isn't that resource heavy so if your lucky it will work.

**Memphiz** · 2012-03-14 17:30

Won't work on rbpi for now because the ctypes module for python is not compiling atm (same problem like for ios devices). And if someone get it compiled in the future its unlikley that it will work on that embedded boxes (maybe a bit - but not the full fps).

POst05 · 2012-03-14 23:58

Can i use boblight for music? Why isn't projectm or mildrop supported?

**Memphiz** · 2012-03-15 00:11

because its not possible atm. What do you think? *narf*

POst05 · 2012-03-15 00:27

Sorry for this stupid question, but i couldn't find a statement why it isn't supported. I thought i would be easy Sad

smajor Junior Member Posts: 28 Joined: Feb 2012 Reputation: 1	2012-03-13 23:00 Post: #231 So what are we talking about then? I was thinking boblight.conf too Adalight with Lightpack calculator (with boblight support) http://sanya.tarhelyszolgaltato.eu/
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POst05 Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: Mar 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-03-14 23:58 Post: #238 Can i use boblight for music? Why isn't projectm or mildrop supported?
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Memphiz Team-XBMC Developer Posts: 7,691 Joined: Feb 2011 Reputation: 91 Location: germany	2012-03-15 00:11 Post: #239 because its not possible atm. What do you think? narf AppleTV2/iPhone/iPod: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much: click here HowTo setup NFS for XBMC: Wiki NFS HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf): Wiki Avahi READ THE IOS FAQ!: iOS FAQ
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POst05 Junior Member Posts: 3 Joined: Mar 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-03-15 00:27 Post: #240 Sorry for this stupid question, but i couldn't find a statement why it isn't supported. I thought i would be easy
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