[RELEASE] Official XBMC boblight Addon

Elbert · 2011-12-09 17:11

Thanks a lot for this addon. This makes it so much easier to handle and tune the great boblight-script from within XBMC.

lordindy · 2011-12-09 17:16

Hellz yeah! Finally, I way to tune my Adalight. Will try tonight!

Elbert · 2011-12-10 14:21

I have some problems getting the addon working properly.

For some reason, during playback, the topleft lights are not running and I also have the feeling that the wrong colors are sent to the other lights. When there is no playback, the constant background light is working correctly (on all leds).

All the lights are properly working when I use boblight-X11 to control them. Therefore boblight.conf is probably correctly configured.

I'm running a nightly build from 4th of november (crystalbuntu distribution). Boblightd is running local and I'm using atmolight as a hardware controller. Here is my xbmc.log

Do you have any suggestions where I could look?

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Edit: After updating to a more recent nightly (4 dec 2011) the lights seem to work correct!

**Memphiz** · 2011-12-10 15:09

Elbert Wrote:I have some problems getting the addon working properly.

For some reason, during playback, the topleft lights are not running and I also have the feeling that the wrong colors are sent to the other lights. When there is no playback, the constant background light is working correctly (on all leds).

All the lights are properly working when I use boblight-X11 to control them. Therefore boblight.conf is probably correctly configured.

I'm running a nightly build from 4th of november (crystalbuntu distribution). Boblightd is running local and I'm using atmolight as a hardware controller. Here is my xbmc.log

Do you have any suggestions where I could look?

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Edit: After updating to a more recent nightly (4 dec 2011) the lights seem to work correct!

update to a more recent xbmc nighlty version ... there where issues in the image capture code in older versions...

Elbert · 2011-12-10 16:20

I've encountered another problem. When i'm running a video that is software decoded (xvid) the lights every now and then stall for a couple of seconds. Pausing the video directly sets the lights correct to the current scene. I do not see this stalling when I'm running a video that uses hardware acceleration (crystalhd-card).

As I am on a relatively low-powered AppleTV1, this makes me think that the addon somehow cannot keep up when it's displaying software decoded stuff.

Please let me know if you need more info.

**Memphiz** · 2011-12-10 16:43

yeah might be a lack of cpu issue...

Elbert · 2011-12-10 17:16

Is there a way to set the priority of addons within XBMC? I guess the addon is not much more cpu intensive than boblight-X11, with which I did not see this issue with sf-decoded media.

**Memphiz** · 2011-12-10 17:46

Elbert Wrote:Is there a way to set the priority of addons within XBMC? I guess the addon is not much more cpu intensive than boblight-X11, with which I did not see this issue with sf-decoded media.

in fact it might be a bit more intensive imho ... but this is something bobo1on1 could have a better knowledge off. You could decrease the speed for a first try...

**bobo1on1** · 2011-12-10 18:14

When this addon runs, XBMC reads back videoframes from the gpu via OpenGL, how well this works is dependent on the gpu and the videodriver.

You can try adding this to advancedsettings.xml:

Code:

<advancedsettings>

  <video>

    <useocclusionquery>0</useocclusionquery>

  </video>

</advancedsettings>

Elbert · 2011-12-10 19:05

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

I tried both the 'slow' and 'fast' settings, and added the lines to advancedsettings.xml but they did not make a difference. One thing I noticed though is that I used to run boblight-X11 with the -x setting (-x use XGetImage instead of XRender) to get a good result.

Elbert Senior Member Posts: 131 Joined: Oct 2009 Reputation: 4 Location: Netherlands	2011-12-09 17:11 Post: #21 Thanks a lot for this addon. This makes it so much easier to handle and tune the great boblight-script from within XBMC.
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lordindy Junior Member Posts: 43 Joined: Apr 2011 Reputation: 0	2011-12-09 17:16 Post: #22 Hellz yeah! Finally, I way to tune my Adalight. Will try tonight!
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Memphiz Team-XBMC Developer Posts: 7,665 Joined: Feb 2011 Reputation: 91 Location: germany	2011-12-10 16:43 Post: #26 yeah might be a lack of cpu issue... 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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Elbert Senior Member Posts: 131 Joined: Oct 2009 Reputation: 4 Location: Netherlands	2011-12-10 17:16 Post: #27 Is there a way to set the priority of addons within XBMC? I guess the addon is not much more cpu intensive than boblight-X11, with which I did not see this issue with sf-decoded media.
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bobo1on1 cheapass Team-XBMC Developer Posts: 2,752 Joined: Dec 2008 Reputation: 20	2011-12-10 18:14 Post: #29 When this addon runs, XBMC reads back videoframes from the gpu via OpenGL, how well this works is dependent on the gpu and the videodriver. You can try adding this to advancedsettings.xml: Code: `<advancedsettings> <video> <useocclusionquery>0</useocclusionquery> </video> </advancedsettings>`
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Elbert Senior Member Posts: 131 Joined: Oct 2009 Reputation: 4 Location: Netherlands	2011-12-10 19:05 Post: #30 Thanks for the suggestions guys. I tried both the 'slow' and 'fast' settings, and added the lines to advancedsettings.xml but they did not make a difference. One thing I noticed though is that I used to run boblight-X11 with the -x setting (-x use XGetImage instead of XRender) to get a good result.
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