HDMI Light V2: Open-Hardware FPGA-Based Clone of Philips Ambilight (2014)

Re:HDMI Light V2: Open-Hardware FPGA-Based Clone of Philips ... by gh02t on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:28AM (#18217547)

I have a bunch of Hue devices myself, but I wouldn't exactly call it "cheap" considering how much the colored bulbs cost. You can build your own with a cheap Arduino clone and some addressable RGB LEDs for well under $20.

In addition, Hue Sync is kinda different. To me a proper ambilight goes around the edge of a display to cast light on a wall with a decent resolution (20ish or more LEDs), while Sync is more for a few bulbs and synchronizing the room lights. You can get kind of a similar effect with Sync and a couple bulbs behind the screen but it's just not as impressive.

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Re:HDMI Light V2: Open-Hardware FPGA-Based Clone of Philips ... by lozaning on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:48PM (#18221876)

Hence my caveat about already having said expensive bulbs. The possibility exists that someone could to real time whole room color effects right now and they just didn't know it.

If you want actual ambilight tech hue is definitely not directly analogous and not cheap either.

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Re:HDMI Light V2: Open-Hardware FPGA-Based Clone of Philips ... by epmaybe on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:42AM (#18218694)

Phillips sells hue led strips now, wouldn't that work with hue sync?

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Re:HDMI Light V2: Open-Hardware FPGA-Based Clone of Philips ... by gh02t on Monday October 15, 2018 @11:02AM (#18220253)

The Hue strips aren't addressable so all the LEDs are set to the same color.

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