[CharlesNasi]

Hi,

I bought a Philips AmbX Starter kit, and struggled how to configure this so it will work with X11. It's working!

What I used:
- Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 Beta2 x64
- XBMC Camelot 9.11
- Philips AmbX starter kit (Around 25 euro in NL)
- CombustD
- Boblight

1. (If not installed) install Subversion

Code:

sudo apt-get install subversion

2. get combustd from svn

Code:

svn checkout http://combustd.googlecode.com/svn/branches/combustd-ruby-0.1

3. Download Boblight and extract it to something you want

Code:

Download: wget http://www.xs4all.nl/~loosen/boblight/boblight-1.3.tar.gz.
Tar: tar zxvf boblight-1.3.tar.gz

4. Get dependencies to compile Boblight

Code:

sudo apt-get install gcc libusb-dev ruby ruby-dev libportaudio-dev libavdevice-dev libswscale-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev libxrender-dev libsdl1.2-dev libc6-dev-i386  libx11-dev

4. Build the package 'Boblight'
Go to the folder where you extracted Boblight and do:

Code:

sudo ./configure

(If some dependencies are missing, ask in this forum about it!)

Code:

sudo make

and install it.

Code:

sudo make install

5. Configure Boblight
Open a text-editor (I used Gedit in the code-example) and edit the file 'boblight.conf

Code:

sudo nano /etc/boblight.conf

Add the following code into the file

Code:

[global]
interface 127.0.0.1
port 19333
[device]
name AmbX_Combust
output "ruby /usr/local/combustd/applications/boblight/boblight.rb"
channels 5
type popen
interval 20000

[color]
name red
rgb FF0000

[color]
name green
rgb 00FF00

[color]
name blue
rgb 0000FF

[light]
name main
color red AmbX_Combust 1
color green AmbX_Combust 2
color blue AmbX_Combust 3
hscan 0 100
vscan 0 100

And save the file.
Boblight is now configured.

6. Install and compile Ruby-usb
download and get Ruby-usb

Code:

wget http://www.a-k-r.org/ruby-usb/ruby-usb-0.2.tar.gz

Extract ruby to a folder

Code:

tar -zxvf ruby-usb-0.2.tar.gz

Run ruby extconf.rb

Code:

sudo ruby extconf.rb

(If you get a error here (mkmf error) > sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev
Make & Install Ruby
sudo make && sudo make install

7. CombustD
- Extract the CombustD package you downloaded previously
- Rename the folder to combustd
- Move the folder to /usr/local

All steps are now done, time to start the daemon!
Run the following command in a shell:

Code:

sudo boblightd

Start the boblight-X11 binary

Code:

boblight-X11

Tweaks:
More saturation:
Add -s 20 behind the boblight-X11 exec.

To Do:
Create a file to autostart the daemon on startup and to launch the server
Add more tweaks
V. 0.1

Thanks
Thanks go to:
Bob for creating the great Boblight utility!
http://blogger.xs4all.nl/loosen/
Creators of CombustD!