[durchflieger]

Can you please elaborate a bit about configuring the areas? I've read several times the README but still I have problems to understand the areas and sections.

I have a light setup with 3 lights on the top and 2 on both sides. With boblight configuration I was able to slice the screen up so that it nicely mapped to the lights but with this I'm not sure.

If anyone is interested, I'm using ShiftBars with arduino to drive the LED stripes.

Thanks,
-erix-

Well maybe the label text i choose for the "Areas" dialog within the plugin settings dialog does confuse you a little bit. I think i will change these.

Similar to boblight you can slice the screen in DFAtmo. Each slice is called a "Section". Each Section has a location on the screen. These locations are called "Areas". DFAtmo knows the basic areas Top, Bottom, Left, Right which represents the four borders of the screen , the more special areas TopLeft, TopRight, BottomLeft, BottomRight which represents the corners of the screen and the center area which represents the hole screen.
You can have up to 128 sections in each basic area.
The sections are sliced in this way that each section has the same length
along the border.

Here are two examples of possible layouts for your installation.
Your LED strips in each section should cover the border
from + to + . You should choose the layout that best fits with
your installation.

Code:

[font=Fixedsys]Top 3, Bottom 2, Left 2:

+--T1--+--T2--+--T3--+
I                                    I
L1                                 R1
I                                    I
+                                  +
I                                    I
L2                                 R2
I                                    I
+                                  +


Top 1, Left 2, Right 2, TopLeft, TopRight:

TL--+--T1--+--TR
I                        I
+                      +
I                        I
L1                     R1
I                        I
+                      +
I                        I
L2                     R2
I                        I
+                      +
[/font]

I hope this helps a little bit.

Edit: I am struggling with the alignment of the layout inside the code section of this article. I already choose a fixed size font but alignment of spaces is going wrong. Can anybody give me a hint about that?

- durchflieger