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Hi,
i already read that at the moment the XBMC Boblight Addon isn't working on Raspberry Pi.
I would really like to help but i dont know where to start and what to do.
I would really appreciate boblight on raspberry pi.
What is the matter? Is it the omxplayer which can't be "read" from the addon? How about the boblight without the addon via the x11 way? Does this also not work?
Thanks in advance
regnets
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Is there any way to get this working with XBMC on the Raspberry Pi (XBian)?
I compiled boblight and everything with succes, and the static lighting mode in the XBMC plugin works OK.
However, in movie mode it only flashes every now and then.
I read that it's because the usual frame capture method in XBMC doesn't work on the Pi. But is there any workaround?
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What settings in boblight addon gives you best result with ws2801?
I am using atm:
<settings>
<setting id="bobdisable" value="false" />
<setting id="hostip" value="127.0.0.1" />
<setting id="hostport" value="19333" />
<setting id="movie_autospeed" value="0.000000" />
<setting id="movie_interpolation" value="false" />
<setting id="movie_preset" value="0" />
<setting id="movie_saturation" value="4.999998" />
<setting id="movie_speed" value="90.000000" />
<setting id="movie_threshold" value="20.000000" />
<setting id="movie_value" value="4.999998" />
<setting id="musicvideo_autospeed" value="0.000000" />
<setting id="musicvideo_interpolation" value="false" />
<setting id="musicvideo_preset" value="0" />
<setting id="musicvideo_saturation" value="4.999998" />
<setting id="musicvideo_speed" value="100.000000" />
<setting id="musicvideo_threshold" value="10.000000" />
<setting id="musicvideo_value" value="4.999998" />
<setting id="networkaccess" value="false" />
<setting id="other_static_bg" value="false" />
<setting id="other_static_blue" value="225.000000" />
<setting id="other_static_green" value="166.000000" />
<setting id="other_static_red" value="196.000000" />
<setting id="overwrite_cat" value="false" />
<setting id="overwrite_cat_val" value="0" />
<setting id="sep1" value="" />
<setting id="sep2" value="" />
</settings>
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Does anyone have good settings for the color values in boblight.conf when using ws2801 led strings? The colors is to powerful and to much red. I tried to mess around with the settings but it is hard to get it right. And Google is not my friend today.
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A few more questions. Is there any good solution for movies that have black bars on either side?
I don't want the lights to be turned on when watching LiveTV. Is it either possible to detect this and don't enable the lights or a easier way with a true one-click on/off button? Opening the settings every time is not easy enough.
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After many hours of trying to calibrate the colors i kind of gave up. Thought the problem was with boblight and thought i should try Lightpack instead. But before i did that i tried boblight-X11 instead of this addon.
Wow! What a difference in colors. Now everything looked almost perfect, just a small tweak and it looked amazing.
Why is there such a difference between the colors in the XBMC addon and boblight-X11? And is there any way to get the same colors in the XBMC addon?
The pros with XBMC addons is that it only turns on when playing a movie(hopefully it will be possible to disable with LiveTV some day) and that the addon don't react on subtitles.
Cons, totally wrong colors in many places, dark scenes often get all red.
boblight-X11 has amazing colors, but the lights are on everywhere, and don't handle subtitles good. A get white blinking leds at every subtitle.
Am i doing something wrong or is it just the way it is? Since both use boblight daemon i don't understand how it could be such big difference.
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I can get the same colors with boblight-X11 and boblight addon. Post your boblightd.conf to pastebin.com and put the link in here...
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much:
click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi:
NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf):
Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!:
iOS FAQ (wiki)
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Am i the only one with this problem? Since both the XBMC addon and boblight-X11 is clients to the server boblightd i don't understand what could be wrong. Is the XBMC addon doing calculations in a different way?
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nope but imo your settings in the conf file are way off diddled. Ou know that gamma is non linear? Something like that can lead to differences between x11 and addon. Btw addon gets the color values directly from the rendered video. I would reset the gamma and adjust values in the conf and start from scratch if i was you. Only small changes at a time. Try a good test movie with homogen colors (superbad has a nice intro with fullcolor screens at the beginning - ideally for calibration).
AppleTV4/iPhone/iPod/iPad: HowTo find debug logs and everything else which the devs like so much:
click here
HowTo setup NFS for Kodi:
NFS (wiki)
HowTo configure avahi (zeroconf):
Avahi_Zeroconf (wiki)
READ THE IOS FAQ!:
iOS FAQ (wiki)
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I've already tried that, put down almost a whole day when i first installed the lights, changed everything in small steps. And not getting it right after a few hours made me look at other solutions to find out where the problems was. That's when i tried boblight-X11 and it looked good almost instant.
I don't know anything about programming, but how can the settings in the file make a difference between XBMC addon and boblight-X11? Both talk with the boblightd service and use the same values?
Isn't the default value for everything 1, so 1.2 i gamma cant be that extreme?
I will reset the settings to 1 for everything and post pictures. Maybe i could remove the adjust and gamma setting, that would put them to default?
I don't have a good test movie, but that don't matter much, because the differences between XBMC addon and boblight-X11 is so big. It is not hard to see that there is a problem somewhere. And since there is other problems with boblight-X11 i really would like to use the XBMC addon.
If anyone else uses LEDs with ws2801s, please post your color settings. It can't be that big differences between different setups.