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Any tips for a linux user?
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Cheers, that looks easier than my searching had led me to believe.
I will need to investigate the conf file as the setup from the leds I bought will have 150 leds. No doubt it is documented though.
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Wiki id possibly better. Thinking of doing that myself.
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You need two MF and two MM. I'll look more closely tomorrow. I started the Wiki but that will take a few days.
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still waiting to recieve my parts,
but i was wondering about the software part,
how do you set it up with movies that have blackbars ?
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It's explained in the 'plugin' instructions. In Ambibox you create a different profile with different capture zones for commonly sized content (16:9, 4:3, 2.35:1). Then the plugin can be setup to either pick one of the profiles based on the video's aspect ratio or a menu can be displayed at the start of video playback to choose a profile.
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I just got my parts . The led strip has two different ends. The end on the outside of the reel has one type of plug and extra power (red) and ground (black) cables. The inner end just has a plug (the mirror of the first end).
Which end do i connect the leonardo to?
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2014-02-16, 01:06
(This post was last modified: 2014-02-16, 01:07 by nickr.)
The weird thing is that on my strip (which should be the same as yours, I bought it off the same page!) the male connector is at the end with the extra power lines, and the female connector (the one shown as the 'input' end on the adafruit page, the smaller connector with the triangular 'arms') is at the other end with no extra power lines.
If I connect power to either end, one (and only one) led lights up, at the male end with the extra power wires.
Nick, confused.
Also I bought a leostick, not a leonardo, as it is said to be compatible, but has a smaller form factor. Trouble is it comes with the headers separate so I'll have to solder them on, so much for a solderless build.
Nick, frustrated, and owner of a brand new soldering iron.
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