[thepita]

can you check whether there really are <onfocus> tags in your home.xml? Also make sure you use the old plain Pm3 Skin, not PM3.HD (of course you can easily adapt this "feature" to any alternative skin you want)

Yes there are the <onfocus> tags. I wonder if this is because I am using ntsc and you are using pal?

UPDATE: I found the problem. I am using 16x9 so I had to add the <onfocus> tags to the home.xml in the Pal 16 x 9 folder of pm3
Also for the <onfocus> tag for my music there are too many variables which cause xbmc to lock up so I removed them and its fine now

[thepita]

I love the new feature I am adding it to the mc360 theme right now. Great Work!

Cant seem to get it to work with the mc360 theme. the set up is way different on it.

[donabi]

actually i'm switching from the old xbox1 to a htpc.
lagwaggons ambililght works great on my xbox, but how will it work on a htpc?

is there any way to use linux or windows xbmc with it?


i know, that i will need new hardware to power the rgb-leds.
what about this one?
http://ca.rstenpresser.de/index.php?l=en&i=0

[thepita]

actually i'm switching from the old xbox1 to a htpc.
lagwaggons ambililght works great on my xbox, but how will it work on a htpc?

is there any way to use linux or windows xbmc with it?


i know, that i will need new hardware to power the rgb-leds.
what about this one?
http://ca.rstenpresser.de/index.php?l=en&i=0

if you look back a few pages there is some discussion on other platform usage

[donabi]

yes, right.
but i can't figure out if it is working or not.
maybe my english isn't good enough to understand.

there are those videos where actually something is working.
but does it work IN xbmc or is it only working in ... VLC or something?

[frostwork]

I got my atmolight last friday from
http://ca.rstenpresser.de
and it just rocks and works out-of-the-box.

using boblight with boblight-X11 client and with the default configuration
it simply works with every X11 app running - including xbmc of course.

atm I have a little delay with boblight, but having seen pike's
youtube videos running xbmc/atmolight/boblight
I think there's still place for improvements on config side.

[donabi]

i got one from him, too.

i could only test it in windows.
it works as expected. even better.

i have no space for 4 seperate stripes (left, right, bottom, top).
i can use these 4 stripes only at left&right.

but, with this piece of hardware, i can set it to "top-lef" - "bottom-left" and "top-right" - "bottom-right".

really nice.


and nice to hear, that it works with linux.
thx.

[donabi]

i can't get it to work (under ubuntu)

i got the ftdi driver from:
http://ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX.htm

installation:

Code:

Installation:
1. unzip and untar the file given to a suitable directory
gunzip libftd2xx0.4.12.tar.gz
tar -xvf libftd2xx0.4.12.tar

2. As root user copy the following files to /usr/local/lib
cp libftd2xx.so.0.4.12 /usr/local/lib

3. Change directory to /usr/local/lib
cd /usr/local/lib

4. make symbolic links to these files using the following commands:
ln -s libftd2xx.so.0.4.12 libftd2xx.so

5. Change directory to /usr/lib
cd /usr/lib

6. make symbolic links to these files using the following commands:
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libftd2xx.so.0.4.12 libftd2xx.so

7. Add the following line to /etc/fstab:
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,devmode=0666 0 0
There have been reports that you may need to use the following command for some distros
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,mode=0666 0 0 (use usbfs in 2.6 kernels)

8. Remount all in the fstab file
mount -a

executing nr 8 brings up:
"unknown filesystem usbdevfs".

this is my "fstab"

Code:

none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,devmode=0666 0 0
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=18b3e69b-d079-4027-8696-60a594fc20c0 /               ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dos was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=1A48BD8B48BD65E3 /dos            ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# /windows was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=60E0EE8DE0EE68AC /windows        ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
/dev/sda6       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

any hints?

[frostwork]

what are you planning to do with this lib?
never have read anything about it in relation to atmolight,
but maybe I've missed something.
Usually boblight from
http://blogger.xs4all.nl/loosen/articles/408218.aspx
should be enough to get your atmolight running.

[donabi]

well, i thought that i need this driver to get it working.
as it is mentioned on c@rstenpressers homepage.

i have installed boblight, too.
but i'm a quite newbie @ linux, so i don't know if everything went right.

is there any programm or service listed after succesfully installing boblight?

is there something else to do?

[frostwork]

seems like you require the ftdi stuff only for windows.
make sure you have enabled serial device drivers and also
USB Serial Converter support in your kernel.
I have the following enabled under

Device Drivers --->
USB support --->
<*> USB Serial Converter support --->
[*] Functions for loading firmware on EZUSB chips
[*] USB Generic Serial Driver
<*> USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver
<*> USB Prolific 2303 Single Port Serial Driver

probably not all of those are really required as I didn't "finetune" this section yet

when all required drivers are in the kernel you'll get a devicenode called:
/dev/ttyUSB0

my atmolight looks like this in lsubs btw:
0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC

not sure wether boblight comes with some default initscripts or not, so if you don't have them I can post mine here, including also some simple
boblight-toggle-on-off script.
my initscripts are for gentoo though, so you might have to adjust them to your needs.

[donabi]

thanks.

i'll try (&error )

[ronie]

not sure wether boblight comes with some default initscripts or not, so if you don't have them I can post mine here, including also some simple
boblight-toggle-on-off script.
my initscripts are for gentoo though, so you might have to adjust them to your needs.

i've received my atmolight two weeks ago, but haven't had much time to play with it though.
i'd surely be interested in your init scripts, so if you could please post 'm somewhere.

i also noticed bobo1on1 started a new xbmc boblight branch 2 days ago, so who knows what this will bring us in the near future. ;-)
http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/x...nches/bob/

[Swifty]

i also noticed bobo1on1 started a new xbmc boblight branch 2 days ago, so who knows what this will bring us in the near future. ;-)
http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/x...nches/bob/

Wow, great find!!
Can't wait to see what comes of this!

I got my atmo from Carsten recently too, I'd highly recommend his services to anyone in doubt. Great support and shipped really quickly from GER > UK.

[frostwork]

hey!
yeah, boblight/atmolight control from xbmc gui would simply rock of course

I uploaded a 1,5 kb tar.gz with my initscripts,boblight.conf,
and a little toggle on/off script.
I might have chosen a not too perfect solution for turning boblight off in atmo.stop, but as it worked outofthebox this way, I left it as it is.

http://frostworx.de/files/atmolight-stuff.tar.gz


fyi: I made some small atmo/xbmc demo video which you can find here
(about 45mb):
http://frostworx.de/files/atmoxbmc.mp4

Full ack with recommending Carstens excellent work and his friendly support!