[RELEASE] Official XBMC boblight Addon

http://ikennd.ac/pictures/for_posts/2011...Wiring.png

that´s how it should look like (with less arduino PWM pins of course and with an external power supply)

Check if your strip is +RGB or -RGB

boblightd doesn't seem to connect after I wake from sleep. I have to restart or disconnect and reconnect the usb cable.

this is what it is saying in the log file

when I disconnect then reconnect the USB cable I get this in the log file, then it works fine

(2012-03-17 23:09)lrusak Wrote:  boblightd doesn't seem to connect after I wake from sleep. I have to restart or disconnect and reconnect the usb cable.

this is what it is saying in the log file

Code:

(CDeviceRS232::WriteOutput)     ERROR: ambilight: /dev/ttyACM0: Input/output error
(CDevice::Process)              ambilight: closed
(CDevice::Process)              ambilight: setting up

when I disconnect then reconnect the USB cable I get this in the log file, then it works fine

Code:

(CDeviceRS232::SetupDevice)     ERROR: ambilight: /dev/ttyACM0: Input/output error
(CDevice::Process)              ERROR: ambilight: setting up failed, retrying in 10 seconds

i think i had the same problem. if you´re using linux I could send you a small binary which resets the usb port.
you´d have to integrate that in /etc/pm/sleep.d.

(2012-03-18 06:55)phil65 Wrote:  

(2012-03-17 23:09)lrusak Wrote:  boblightd doesn't seem to connect after I wake from sleep. I have to restart or disconnect and reconnect the usb cable.

this is what it is saying in the log file

Code:

(CDeviceRS232::WriteOutput)     ERROR: ambilight: /dev/ttyACM0: Input/output error
(CDevice::Process)              ambilight: closed
(CDevice::Process)              ambilight: setting up

when I disconnect then reconnect the USB cable I get this in the log file, then it works fine

Code:

(CDeviceRS232::SetupDevice)     ERROR: ambilight: /dev/ttyACM0: Input/output error
(CDevice::Process)              ERROR: ambilight: setting up failed, retrying in 10 seconds

i think i had the same problem. if you´re using linux I could send you a small binary which resets the usb port.
you´d have to integrate that in /etc/pm/sleep.d.

I'm using Openelec, so I can't do that.

Thanks though

(2012-03-18 07:45)lrusak Wrote:  

(2012-03-18 06:55)phil65 Wrote:  

(2012-03-17 23:09)lrusak Wrote:  boblightd doesn't seem to connect after I wake from sleep. I have to restart or disconnect and reconnect the usb cable.

this is what it is saying in the log file

Code:

(CDeviceRS232::WriteOutput)     ERROR: ambilight: /dev/ttyACM0: Input/output error
(CDevice::Process)              ambilight: closed
(CDevice::Process)              ambilight: setting up

when I disconnect then reconnect the USB cable I get this in the log file, then it works fine

Code:

(CDeviceRS232::SetupDevice)     ERROR: ambilight: /dev/ttyACM0: Input/output error
(CDevice::Process)              ERROR: ambilight: setting up failed, retrying in 10 seconds

i think i had the same problem. if you´re using linux I could send you a small binary which resets the usb port.
you´d have to integrate that in /etc/pm/sleep.d.

I'm using Openelec, so I can't do that.

Thanks though

i think you can, even when using openelec. some openelec addons have a sleep.d folder in their root, the boblightd addon seems to get it too I think ( https://github.com/OpenELEC/OpenELEC.tv/...6d3c9f77cf )
I´m still waitin for a new PVR build, if you don ´t use PVR an OpenELEC version with this change should be available from the official daily builds.
and if that does not work you can still build your own OpenELEC image.

I'm trying to compile the binary to see if it will work on OpenELEC 64bit but i'm getting this error:

configure: error: Missing a required library, please install it or disable X11 support by passing --without-x11 to configure

X11 is installed on my system (Ubuntu 32bit) but can't seem to pass this error.
Second question is if there is a config option to compile it for 64bit systems or is this library the same for both?

edit:
Compiling for x86_64 is solved (--build=x86_64) only X11 error left.
Another forum member talked about chmod did the trick but what should i chmod ?

(2012-03-18 11:26)schumi2004 Wrote:  I'm trying to compile the binary to see if it will work on OpenELEC 64bit but i'm getting this error:

configure: error: Missing a required library, please install it or disable X11 support by passing --without-x11 to configure

X11 is installed on my system (Ubuntu 32bit) but can't seem to pass this error.
Second question is if there is a config option to compile it for 64bit systems or is this library the same for both?

edit:
Compiling for x86_64 is solved (--build=x86_64) only X11 error left.
Another forum member talked about chmod did the trick but what should i chmod ?

don´t know the exact names of the libraries (probably libx...-dev) but I think an "apt-get build-dep wine" did the trick for me some time ago when i had the same error will install some unneeded libraries too of course.

EDIT: generic 64 bit building isn´t possible at the moment, or am i wrong?

EDIT2: and if you want to compile openelec on ubuntu, only compiling on ubuntu 10.10 or less is officially supported. If it doesn´t work you could use a schroot environment.

(2012-03-18 13:27)phil65 Wrote:  

(2012-03-18 11:26)schumi2004 Wrote:  I'm trying to compile the binary to see if it will work on OpenELEC 64bit but i'm getting this error:

configure: error: Missing a required library, please install it or disable X11 support by passing --without-x11 to configure

X11 is installed on my system (Ubuntu 32bit) but can't seem to pass this error.
Second question is if there is a config option to compile it for 64bit systems or is this library the same for both?

edit:
Compiling for x86_64 is solved (--build=x86_64) only X11 error left.
Another forum member talked about chmod did the trick but what should i chmod ?

don´t know the exact names of the libraries (probably libx...-dev) but I think an "apt-get build-dep wine" did the trick for me some time ago when i had the same error will install some unneeded libraries too of course.

EDIT: generic 64 bit building isn´t possible at the moment, or am i wrong?

EDIT2: and if you want to compile openelec on ubuntu, only compiling on ubuntu 10.10 or less is officially supported. If it doesn´t work you could use a schroot environment.

Thanks for the tip about build-dep wine solved my X11 error but now i have missing header for ffmpeg and i should run it with --without-ffmpeg which is strage since it's already added. (./configure --without-portaudio --without-ffmpeg --prefix=/usr)

I added --build=x86_64 and it didn't complain, if i got a proper build i'm going to test if it worked, first getting that ffmpeg bug gone.

(2012-03-18 13:46)schumi2004 Wrote:  

(2012-03-18 13:27)phil65 Wrote:  

(2012-03-18 11:26)schumi2004 Wrote:  I'm trying to compile the binary to see if it will work on OpenELEC 64bit but i'm getting this error:

configure: error: Missing a required library, please install it or disable X11 support by passing --without-x11 to configure

X11 is installed on my system (Ubuntu 32bit) but can't seem to pass this error.
Second question is if there is a config option to compile it for 64bit systems or is this library the same for both?

edit:
Compiling for x86_64 is solved (--build=x86_64) only X11 error left.
Another forum member talked about chmod did the trick but what should i chmod ?

don´t know the exact names of the libraries (probably libx...-dev) but I think an "apt-get build-dep wine" did the trick for me some time ago when i had the same error will install some unneeded libraries too of course.

EDIT: generic 64 bit building isn´t possible at the moment, or am i wrong?

EDIT2: and if you want to compile openelec on ubuntu, only compiling on ubuntu 10.10 or less is officially supported. If it doesn´t work you could use a schroot environment.

Thanks for the tip about build-dep wine solved my X11 error but now i have missing header for ffmpeg and i should run it with --without-ffmpeg which is strage since it's already added. (./configure --without-portaudio --without-ffmpeg --prefix=/usr)

I added --build=x86_64 and it didn't complain, if i got a proper build i'm going to test if it worked, first getting that ffmpeg bug gone.

you only need --without-pulseaudio, you can ignore the ffmpeg error then I think.
EDIT: what are you tryin to do actually? compile the complete openelec or only the boblightd addon?

@phil65
I'm trying to compile libboblight.so which i'll hope will work on OpenELEC x86_64.
I have tried several installs to get XBMC Boblight working on OE x86_64 but they all failed. Always missing library, so i thought compiling one for x86_64 myself since some users report they got it working on 64bits systems.

Compiling went fine now on my Ubuntu 10.10 system only didn't get the expected *.so file (only got libboblight.la and *.a) but that i will figure out. (I'm a linux noob so can take a while )
Thanks for helping.

EDIT:
I tried it again and it returned the following error (revision 420):
Any suggestions?

EDIT2:
Revision 400 seems to work fine.