Philips Ambilight alternative with RGBW

[lukaszpiech 15]

I am thinking of starting a project based on

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The idea is - have a camera pointing the TV and creating a jpg every 5 seconds. Save the jpg and have color-scan calculate the dominant rgb value in an image. Then just send those to fibaro RGBW that is behind my TV

Has anyone done something similar already?

[Tekvibes 7]

Save yourself the hassle and buy one of these.  

 

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[lukaszpiech 15]

ah nice. exactly what i need

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[Tekvibes 7]

No, awaiting a package in the mail in march apparently.  Watching the videos at the bottom of the indiegogo site it looks great.  I purchased 2 at 50 dollars each.  Given a Raspberry Pi alone costs 35 dollars that's a great price imo.  Those videos are just filmed with a smartphone or something so I guess it's no video montage which makes me believe that's the quality we'll be getting.  Not bad if u ask me!!

 

If you have hue lights and XBMC, this is also worth checking: 

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[lukaszpiech 15]

No, awaiting a package in the mail in march apparently.  Watching the videos at the bottom of the indiegogo site it looks great.  I purchased 2 at 50 dollars each.  Given a Raspberry Pi alone costs 35 dollars that's a great price imo.  Those videos are just filmed with a smartphone or something so I guess it's no video montage which makes me believe that's the quality we'll be getting.  Not bad if u ask me!!

 

If you have hue lights and XBMC, this is also worth checking: 

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Hi, yeah the XBMC plugin works nice but I have couple problems with it:

 

1. Its only for XBMC, no SAT receiver etc. major problem

2. Hue Lightstrips come only in 1.6m size - not too big for my 65 inch

3. They are xpensive

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4. It seems to glow in one color only. While this what you shared earlier seems to have different colors across the screen. Or maybe I am just too tired today

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[Tekvibes 7]

Indeed, the XBMC plugin, I use just to have my normal hue lights react in XBMC.  Zambilight is just like having full Ambilight support on a non Ambilight TV.  The only thing that's a bit finicky to get working is the cable-in support I suppose.  As I'm only using 1 HDMI coming from my amplifier it will be extremely easy to connect I guess.   With that Zambilight you can have TV's connected that are over 60 inch but it will cost a little extra.  I received a mail asking me the TV sizes so I guess they have a little programming to do depending on the size of the TV.

[lukaszpiech 15]

by the way, i wonder how difficult it would be to write something like this XBMC Hue plugin to work with XBMC/Fibaro RGBW module? I dont know anything about writing XBMC modules, hence I ask

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[boomx 43]

Save yourself the hassle and buy one of these.  

 

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Take a look at the comments

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[lukaszpiech 15]

I will give it a try anyhow. Perhaps the first wave was delayed, they told me they would ship in April

[boomx 43]

I will give it a try anyhow. Perhaps the first wave was delayed, they told me they would ship in April

Hope it isn't scam. I'm interested,too

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Maybe this could be another alternative:

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[lukaszpiech 15]

I guess I will be your guinea pig as I paid already, so I will let you know.

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I just asked for a refund which the guy says he will do tomorrow.  As Boomx mentioned I had a look at the comments and the guy "making" it does absolutely nothing to prove that it's being made, shipped, working, whatever...  Just all cryptic BS.  Sorry for mentioning this project if this actually is a scam.

[lukaszpiech 15]

guys - this is working

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BTW - how did you ask for refund?

[boomx 43]

guys - this is working

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Hahahaha... Have somebody opened the site with safari??? It stand still at 92% and I thought you make a joke... In Firefox it works

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looks quite nice. Will you buy the lightberry HD or the lightberry? Is the raps included in the hd-package?

[lukaszpiech 15]

Hahahaha... Have somebody opened the site with safari??? It stand still at 92% and I thought you make a joke... In Firefox it works

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looks quite nice. Will you buy the lightberry HD or the lightberry? Is the raps included in the hd-package?

yeah safari does not work. But they are from Poland so I called them

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/emoticons/default_smile.png" alt=":)" srcset="https://forum.fibaro.com/uploads/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> I am getting HD i think. Raspberry PI not included, but come on, its 40 euro max:)

 

BTW this seems an independent review (although on their site)

[boomx 43]

Ahhh ok, I get it. This is a "plugin" for the raps. Ok. This is really nice

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/emoticons/default_smile.png" alt=":)" srcset="https://forum.fibaro.com/uploads/emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> I will buy one, too

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Heyyyyyy 40 €... This is the price for a new fibaro door sensor

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[lukaszpiech 15]

oh and have a look here

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This guy actually created a VD for Fibaro to control those lights manually just like RGBW module

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[Tekvibes 7]

I just mailed [email protected], asked for refund and was done same day.

[lukaszpiech 15]

hey just to let you know guys, I just got Lightberry. Config was 15 mins, all working like charm

[Tekvibes 7]

It turned out to be a scam!!  Hope anyone that backed this thing got a refund?