[RELEASE] Official XBMC boblight Addon

u may try atmowin

Thank you. I found atmowin but I think I do also need a pde file to programm my Arduino controller board.
Can you give me a source for a setup with my Arduino and atmowin?

sorry I cant get atmowin to work properly. I found an old pde file but I need to know the correct settings in the pde file..numled and channelorder have to be set correctly for instance.

or is there any setting in the boblight config or xbmc addon to fix the stuttering in boblight?

hey Bob.

As i understood boblight correct, it is not possible to set the configuration my boblightd parameters?

Means... for examle, i can set saturation, speed ... over the params but i cant provide a complete conf file or?

That would be excellent ...

Mamba is finalizing his Grabber for most of DreamBoxes, and likes to add a config directly via remote to the Enigma 2 rom... now he is able to connect to boblighd on another machine (raspi for example) but he is not able to send the channel data which is fixed in the boblight.conf file...

Maybe a Raspberry Pi as boblightd daemon, which can be loaded with a config and multiple devices can connect on, as well as via mobile devices to control.

Boblightd with the abiliity to load boblight,conf files over API.

=)

What u think abt?

Hi,
Does this extenstion work on raspbmc RC3 ? (XMBC for Raspberry Pi)
I can get the static background light but when I play a movie the lights go out...

Any idea ? Is there a dependency for video playback that is not present in raspbmc ?

(excuse my bad english)

I don't get the problem, you can just change the boblight.conf on the raspberry pi to suit your needs.
The options like saturation and speed have to be set from the client though.

of course i can, but imagination u want to set the channel order, lights information by an external program, u cannot provide this infornation to boblightd. For now, its not bidirectional as u can get the lights information provided by boblightd but u cant set them.

For example, if i use the ras pi only for daemon, as interface Lan -> Lights using its /dev/spidev0.0 - i want to set the lights information from an external gui, like a DreamBox satalite receiver. Or maybe from a second HTPC. Maybe only one time yes matching to that TV . for now i need to connect directly on that daemon device to change the boblight.conf one time at least. I will not be able to increase the blocks... or stuff directly from another device.

If the other device is able to create a boblight,conf fine, it would be nice if it would be possible to send this boblight.conf to boblightd and boblightd stores this configuration on the local device so u can provide transparent data.

Another idea... u can directly connect a RGB stripe to the RasPi and u can binary controll it over the /dev/spidev0.0

Is it possible to send binary values on an defined output?

I think a new type would be needed then or? no prefix, no postfix, blank binary RGB values on an defined output device

I dont have a RasPi right now but im in contact with one who has one raspi connected to rgb stripes ws2801 directly and this works fine.

Well that's the whole idea of having a daemon, you set it up once with a proper config, and then all the clients automatically know how many lights you have, and on which parts of the screen they should react to, without having to deal with hardware specific implementations.

If you want to control a ws2801 directly with a raspberry pi, you have to code another output device to boblight.

Latest version of boblightd (r442) for Windows uploaded: http://www.mediafire.com/?35mc8ncsg7wxkls

(2012-07-07 14:22)bobo1on1 Wrote:  Well that's the whole idea of having a daemon, you set it up once with a proper config, and then all the clients automatically know how many lights you have, and on which parts of the screen they should react to, without having to deal with hardware specific implementations.

If you want to control a ws2801 directly with a raspberry pi, you have to code another output device to boblight.

thats right so far. If the lights hardware doenst change in any way, this setting can fixed one time in the daemon and fine.

I simply think it would be better if the users using your Boblight Addon for XBMC are able to directly enter the amounts of channels in width and height, without touching the boblight.conf file in an editor or by my smal generater tool.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/21136636/VS/fin...igTool.exe

Of course, the boblight.conf way is highly flexible and thats fine so far. Only thought it would be nice if maybe a 3rd party tool can connect to the same machine running boblightd on, and to switch to another device and output, maybe to control a second light system.

I thought the abillity loading an own configuration on connecting to boblightd could be smart too , to enter the connection information directly into a GUI and the 3rd party application can have influence on the output device as well as to the visual parameters like speed saturation and so on.

Is there a detailled API description of boblightd ?

Thanks!


@PolliSoft

Thanks!