The ULTIMATE Guide to Building an Ambilight TV with Hyperion
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
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It's finally here! Today we will be going through the ultimate DIY guide for building your own Ambilight TV with Hyperion and a Raspberry Pi with absolutely everything you need to know from start to finish! This is an alternative to the Philips Ambilight range of TV's, or the Philips Hue play HDMI Sync Box using open source software called Hyperion/Hyperbian or HyperHDR which runs on a cheap and low power Raspberry Pi controlling an LED strip such as a WS2812B or SK6812 and gives you ambient or bias lighting for your TV, and the result is amazing!
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Parts Used:
Raspberry Pi Zero W:
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Raspberry Pi 3B:
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SD Card:
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4K Capture Card:
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1080P Capture Card:
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HDMI Splitter:
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LED Strip:
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Alternative LED Strip (RGBW)
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Power Supply:
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Barrel Jack Connectors:
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Wiring:
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0:00 - Intro
1:57 - Hardware selection and choices
10:42 - Software choices
12:50 - Preparing the Pi OS
15:37 - Installing Hyperion/HyperHDR
16:37 - Installing the hardware to the TV
22:22 - Configuring Hyperion/HyperHDR
28:33 - The final result! - Наука та технологія
This is the first video I watched from this channel, and im subscribing simply because of how deep the explanations go. Not only do I now know what to do, I fully understand what it is I am doing, what choices to make, and why. This is the caliber of tutorial my neardy self loves to rave about.
Haha awesome, glad you found it useful!
Thanks for the awesome guide! This is definitely on my list of projects to do in the new house that were building. We need to upgrade from 55" 4k to a 65" 4k TV after were moved in, so I can't do this quite yet. I didn't see in any other guides that Hyperion integrates with HA, so I was pretty excited to see that!
Also, I wanted to mention that every time you said HDMI splitter, you were referring to an HDMI switch. A splitter will split one input to multiple outputs. A switch will let you switch between multiple inputs for one output. Its a pretty common thing to mix up (just read the Amazon reviews from people who ordered the wrong thing), just thought I'd let you know 👍
Keep the great content coming! Thanks!
Thanks Scott, good luck with it!
Haha yeah, for some reason I'd said it wrong once at the start of the shoot then just carried on saying it!
I've been interesting in ambilight for a long time. I decided to do it by myself and this video helped me so much. I just ordered the materials which i needed for now. Thank you so much for this revealing video from Turkey bro
That's awesome, good luck with it and hope to see the end result! Thanks for commenting!
Thanks for answering my comment on your other Hyperion video. I finally got it set up and absolutely love it.
That's amazing, well done!
Great video! I do want to mention that if you want to use HDR content you have to tick the HDR to SDR Tone Mapping box, this corrects the washed out image you get when using HDR10 content. I'm using a PS5/Series X and Apple TV all with HDR on and only when I tick the box I get the right colors. Without it the LEDs are washed out. Another thing to keep into mind when using HDR content is to use smoothing. Took me some time, but with the hardware you recommend I finally have everything set up brilliantly on my OLED TV.
Thanks! Yes I mentioned this in the video :)
@@EverythingSmartHome You are totally right! My bad. Still, finally got it working thanks to your great video.
What typ of led strip did you choose for your setup?
How did you get HDR10 to work? I have the same capture card and I’m running from a PS5 through the card to my 4K tv but I’m being told by I’m not getting the HDR or any of the other special settings you can get on the PS5.
Perfect. I quited trying something like this a long ago but now I’m interested again. Clearly explained!
Thanks! Let me know how it goes!
Another awesome video Lewis - clear and easy to follow as usual 👍🏻
Hey thanks Rob!!
i finally got around to changing my analog setup (hdmi to av -> av -> usb capture -> pi) to your suggested hdmi capture card and my ambilight FINALLY works after literally months of struggling with my old setup.
color calibration took me a while to make it look how i wanted it to but now it's looking awesome :D
How did you set your color calibration ? Help please
I installed an early Hyperion version years ago, that's still working today. It's so much simpler and more user friendly than it used to be, I might upgrade it
Nice, good to get some long term feedback!
Are you running this on a Raspberry Pi 3B? I have a spare Pi 2b laying around but can't find a 3B to buy to save my life.
I also have it running for at least 4 years now (on a 3b+) and it still works flawless.
A lot of my other Pi projects hat to be reinstalled after a few months because error occoured, but this one just runs and runs..
Don’t upgrade its a f*cking nightmare. I’m 6 hours in and still not got it working
I also installed the newest version. Luckily and another SD-Card because there was a crazy delay I couldnt get rid of. So I still run the older version now.
Excellent video, I followed some of your advice, in my case I do not use a USB capture device because I have the LG TV with root, I transmit the content through PicCap directly to the Hyperion, this helps me since I have less hardware to connect and I do not have content restrictions or hdmi inputs.
Thank you very much for generating this content!
Thanks for the awesome guide! I was looking for such a long time one that could cover 4k hdr. Also the international links S2, will make sure to use it.
Thanks for watching!
Absolutely Terrific! Well done!
Hope to see you build one! ;)
@@EverythingSmartHome long term goals.
I was having hell with setting this up! Finally opted to power pi zero w from its own power supply and jumped the grounds together between power supplies and now it works perfectly with both Home Assistant integration and the usb capture card.
Awesome and really detailed video. Thank you so much! Being a total noob in this kind of stuff though and having a 12V led strip and not a 5V one, I didn't understand what kind of wiring I should do in order to get this to properly work while powering the LED strip with its own power supply. How do we have a common ground between the LED strip and the Raspberry Pi?
Thank you for the instructions. Was able to get this one working. I did have flickering of the LED strip. Managed to get rid of it by adding an extra ground wire from the pi to the power supply.
Thanks, glad you got it working! I did mention in the video that you need a common ground otherwise you will get the flickering. How did you wire the power?
@@EverythingSmartHome I'm still waiting for the proper power supply to arrive tomorrow so at the moment it is a bit weirdly wired. 😆
Haha that will be why then 😅
Perfect sir! Absolutely perfect.Thanks for the detailed work. Its going to make doing this project so easy.
Let me know how it goes, be great to see your finished setup!
My Hyperion is now setup and working with an 100 inch screen. The 24v system is working perfect.
This project is awesome. I got it working very easily. Encountered one issue that causes my PI to boot into my Capture Card instead of the SD card, so I'll have to take a look into that, but otherwise, an awesome addition to my home theatre. Thanks for the guide. Much appreciated :D
First off, this is a GREAT guide! Very informative and easy to follow. I'm a fan of all of your videos, to be honest.
So, I purchased a 4K capture card that looks IDENTICAL to the one you have linked for both US and UK, but I'm getting awful black color banding with HDR10 content. Must have got a dud.
Back to just using the fire stick direct into the TV, and back to Amazon this capture card goes :(
Thanks my friend! Damn that's annoying, I hope a replacement fixes it!
First off, great and awesome video ones again :D
However i got two questions:
1: Did you test it with a camera instead of HDMI as well and what is your opinion on that methode?
2. There's a home assistent addon as well, is it possible to connect other smart devices to hyperion with home assistent?
For example connecting multiple light to the left part of the screen ledstrip and right lamps to the right part of the screen ledstrip
Followed the instructions and wound up with a really cool setup!
Somehow my barrel jack connector was a dud (no connection on the negative!), but managed to work that out before too long.
Using a RaspberryPi 3B+ and it's been super easy to follow these instructions and get it all working.
Thank you!
Looks amazing my friend! Well done!
And was the barrel jack connector you had supplied with the power supply by any chance?
@@EverythingSmartHome yea came in the box!
Worked initially, but things got a bit dodgy then died…
Have a few more arriving tomorrow so can make my little bodge fix a bit more tidy!
Whatdya know, mine did the exact same and I've been troubleshooting that same problem with others on discord and yeah always the problem with the included jack!
@@EverythingSmartHome I don’t know how they can get them so wrong!
Thought it was the Pi getting hot - it was a bit toasty, and it seemed to struggle powering the capture card.
Perhaps it was just not getting enough power through the jack?
In any case, bodge job got it working happily, and I have new jacks (and a Pi heatsink) on the way!
@@EverythingSmartHome so new pack of jacks arrived!
Swapped it out, everything worked... for about an hour.
Then HDMI disappeared - looked like the capture device wasn't getting enough power.
Pulled the plug, gave it a few seconds and plugged it back in and this time it seems the positive on the jack has failed...
Did I just get unlucky with two dodgy ones? :-D
just got the components today :-) and making the project with my son. Thanks
That's awesome, love it!
you can also look for video out on your TV or reciever, if you have a 2nd hdmi out you can use that to power this.
Hello! Thank you for doing that video, I think it's the best one in this topic.
Few inputs from me after I've managed to make it work:
- I've used HyperBian instead of HyperHDR on as my capture card was not found by any means in HyperHDR on RaspOS.
- I'm using Raspberry Pi 4 and there was a problem not present in pi zero of Hyperion having no permissions to read input from led pin resulting in led output constantly shutting down. Solved it by running service as root.
- I went for a "neat" solution and purchased four corner connectors just to find our they are incredibly unreliable for no reason just like you mentioned
Hello, thanks! HyperHDR is a fork of Hyperion, therefor if a capture card works in Hyperion then it also works in HyperHDR.
Yes you must run as root, the install script I created for HyperHDR makes sure it runs as root but since you are using Hyperion that might have been an issue.
Glad you got it working
Hi thanks for this video. I personally this is the best Ambilight video tutorial out there. I have seen a lot but this is damn good. Wish I had yours available when I did the project. I followed Steve does projects and it still remains the best outside of this tutorial.
Thanks, appreciate it!
Thanx! Great Guide! I had one problem: i use the WS2812B and it didn't work out of the box. Debug log said something about *unsupported* LED Device. I uninstalled the HyperHDR 16.x package and updated to HyperHDR 17.x and it worked immediately.
Thank you so much for this video! This made the setup very easy for me. And now the family is enjoying the great effect!! One question… how have you setup the power up and shutdown? Do you have any of it synced up to the power down of the video source?
Thanks! I use Home Assistant to automate turning it on and off!
Fantastic video by the way. Thank you
Thanks for the most complete guide with links and everything on this!
One question: if I do not want to use home assistant, would it possible to plug everything into a smart outlet controllable by Google assistant, and if so do all settings/states stay the way they were or every time you plug it back in you'll have to set it to display TV colors and not some solid or rainbow mode?
great viedo man - keep up the good work!! awsome
Perfect video for me to start into led strip and raspberry pi world, thanks
Although I'm kinda lost with the cabling connections between pi, led strip, capture card and the power GPU (especially with common ground tips).
Would you be able to write the simple diagram for it? Thank you
Awesome guide, thank you!
Thank you. Cant wait to get this going.
Look forward to seeing what you do with it!
One of the best DIY guides for setting up Ambilight. Just missing the information on setting this up for a computer monitor instead of a TV. (in that case, you don't need the capture card just the Hyperion Windows App that outputs your computer monitor to the Hyperion app running on the Rasberry Pi on your network.
Great video! Thank you 🙌🏻
Wow wow wow. Excellent video. Thanks!
Thanks!
Thank you, great guide!
Very nice video!! Thanks 👍
You are the man BT 🙌😅
awesome video dude! I am not sure how I missed this video as I watch pretty much the others!
anyway, what I would like to know if possible is, as you all know that smart TVs nowadays have got all the apps built in e.g. Amazon, youtube, plex, etc. is it possible to make this work with built in apps? is it possible to output from TV using HDMI and feed it back to the capture card? Not sure if anyone else has wondered / asked this before. If anyone knows please chime in. Cheers
Wow! I was not even aware that hyperion has a fork with HDR option!
Defo it's time to upgrade the software. Thanks for that.
Glad it was useful, enjoy!
@@EverythingSmartHome Sure it was! I was wondering if you could help me out.
My old capture card died recently. So i bought zasluke one according to your vidego. Unfortunately hyperion says no capture device discovered..lsusb shows nothing too!
Ordered everything for delivery tomorrow. Currently using Govee immersion which is great but nothing compared to this.
Hello, Thank you for this great tuto!
I installed this system for the first time yesterday for a test and
when the image is black the LEDs do not turn off completely.
Is this normal? Do you have a solution?
Also when I turn off the hdmi source the LEDs make a rainbow for
several seconds before turning off. can we fix this?
Thanks again.
Hey :) I like you channel and how you explain everything that makes it so simple.
Could you pls extend this tutorial by WLED?
After that tutorial we do have a raspberry pi zero with Hyperion working, but how we can install WLED for that stripe?
It is possible to install it directly on the raspberry pi zero?
Should there some additional boards be used?
thanks :)
Awesome video/guide, mate. (awesome setup as well).
I have a philips hue gradient light strip connected to a philips-sync-hdmi-box-something-hue , can I just install hyperion on my pc and.... it just works? is it better, worth it?
A project that I would like to try myself!
However, we watch streaming platforms natively on the TV apps, so I assume this wouldn't get captured by the HDMI capture box :(.
So I would have to invest in a Roku 4K box or something, which have stumbling blocks of their own:
- It would take up the final HDMI socket on my AV receiver (I don't like the thought of losing expansion capabilities, basically just for bias lighting)
- An extra £40+
- No ethernet (stop congesting my WiFi!)
Is there any DIY options for a TV with native apps? I have a Roku TV so this wouldn't work for me :(
@@michaelminer403 Would like to know too
Great video and very informative! Just curious, were my questions inspiration? lol
Thanks! Haha I always get inspiration from other people's questions, it helps to see what things people find most difficult!
I followed your tutorial yeeears ago and it saved my life.
Sadly I tried to update the HyperHDR Version to the latest and now my lights wont work at all.
Apparenly I need and ESP32 but I'm not finding any tutorials that explain well how the the connection is supposed to go.
Please make an updated version of this toturial so people don't have to struggle since you explain everything so well!
Help meeeeee! I just want to enjoy everything as I used to thanks to my lights :(
Great tutorial. Very easy to follow and the links to all parts makes it easy as 1-2-3 to create the shopping list :). How does this work with Dolby Vision content? Will the capture card still pass the signal on so I can view the content but without the ambient light working, or will the content not show at all? I guess finding a capture card with DV support will either be hard or expensive since DV has a license cost associated to its use.
Thanks! I'm not sure sorry I don't have DV TVs
I've just tested with the very same card used above: HDR is passed through easily, DV ist NOT passed through at all and "downgraded" to HDR.
About to do this ASAP
Hello, Great vidéo !!well done !!
I have a question..
I use my computer connected to the TV for watching movies 4k HDR. (Hdmi audio and vidéo both on the same Ethernet network with rj45).
Do I still need the raspberry Pi ?!
I need the power supply for led strip but there is way to get signal data for hyperhdr with less hardware ?!
Hyperhdr is available on w10 or it's on only Pi?!
Thank you :)
Good day. Great video and extremely helpful and informative. I was able to get everything together and working with phenomenal results. One thing… the LEDs change a fraction of a second after the image on the screen. Is there any way to adjust the latency of the LEDs? Appreciate your assistance.
Try dropping the resolution of the capture card.
If your LED strips don't light up as mine did, check your control signal (green cable). Using WS2812 strips (don't know about other standards), the signal is *one-way*! Unlike 5V and Ground, it is important on which side you connect it to your RPi. I assume the direction is indicated on the strip itself by arrows for most products. If not, don't hesitate to try out, you can't damage it by doing so.
Mine dont light up. Rsp light is on. I can connect to it. But cant detect my capture card also.
I've just completed this project, after some tweaking in the settings I managed to get it to work. The one thing that I now need to sort out is a power supply issue, on the hyperhdr ui in the performance tab it states Undervoltage detected: YES, should I buy a seperate power supply for the Pi and connect the ground cables between power supplies?
or do I just need a micro usb cable with thicker cables. I have everything wired up the same as in the video, thanks
Ola estou pensando em fazer quais ajustes você teve que fazer estou pensando se irei conseguir porque sou inesperiente nisso
Thank you very much for this video. Just finished my setup thanks to you. Is there a way to keep HDMI CEC? So that my devices can control my TV and vice-versa.
Thanks! You would need a capture card or switch that supports HDMI-CEC
Thank you so much! Gonna try it out and update once finished New Sub =)
Awesome, good luck!
Great system. So you use just one power supply for Pi3 and LED lights? The LED Lights dont have a own power supply source? I have a 42" TV so my LED stripes would be a bit longer (more LEDs) do think that i need a second power supply for the LED stripes?
Hey. Thanks for the tutorial. What's the cable connector type which combines all 3 wires of the strip to single cable?
Thank you! I want to say that the 4k capture card from Aliexpress doesnt work. It keeps disconnecting after a time. The other one does work, so thank you!
Excellent video, just what I was looking for. Which Raspberry Pi 4 would you recommend for the best result/performance - 2GB, 4GB or even the 8GB version?
Thanks, 2GB should be more than enough!
Hi there. Have found this video and just finished my build. The raspberry and the LEDs work fine. But I cannot see my AppleTV signal. I am using the same capture device as shown in this video. Do I have to know something more for using AppleTV here? Do I need a different capture device? Is it important to which USB-Port I connect the capture device if I use a pi3 B+? Or is the capture device broken even if its brand new? Appreciate your help. Thank you.
Great video by the way.
UPDATE: It was the capture card. Ordered a second one (same model) and now it works. But sometimes the colors are a little bit off. Perhaps you can make a video about color correction on Hyperion.
Greetings! This is an easy to follow and very detailed guide, I'm going to try ambilight-ing the LG C1 I'll get in a couple of months. One question I have is if anyone knows of a capture card with HDMI 2.1 passthrough, I can't find any.
Thank you!
Don't suppose you bought the card in the end, and can you confirm whether there is 2.1 passthrough? I'm mostly interested in auto game-mode switching on a Chromecast with Google TV.
Yea... The suggested Capture Card proved to be a Dud for me in the long-term use as after a while it kept spazzing out on a fairly regular basis needing a restart from the Pi ( off which it was driving Power from ). I've since replaced it with the absolutely miniscule and by HyperHDR suggested Rullz MS2109 model and it appears to be working a lot more reliable.
Ezcap is good
many thanks!
Great tutorial 👍 But this will not work on a smart TV using e.g. Android TV apps built in, right? 🙂 It will only work with HDMI input sources, right?
Totally unnecessary project… COMPLETE! 🤣 Thanks for the tutorial. Pretty easy install. Looks awesome!
Hahaha love it! Glad it was useful!
Great video! Is it true that hdr content will not work with the capture card?
Not into Ambilight but still watching for the love of Pi and home automation.
My man, appreciate you 🙏
Hey. If we would like to sync other lights in the room, for example ceiling LEDs, to the TV through hyperion, how would that go? Would it be possible? I have a room under construction where I shall be having ceiling strips, TV wall strips, Smart ceiling lights, Bed back LED lighting among others.
How to create an immersive in-sync experience with all these lights?
Great guide. I managed to do it first try with it and it works flawlessly. Thank you very much. That was a really fun project. One side effect I didn't consider beforehand: the setup breaks HDMI CEC between my Shield TV and my TV, which is a bigger pain as I first realized. Is there a workaround for this?
Excellent, glad you enjoyed it! Unfortunately CEC needs to be supported by all components in the chain, the capture card I have doesn't seem to support it either
@@EverythingSmartHome okay, thanks for your replay. I used the same components :-). Nice setup anyway, CEC is a project for the future.
@@EverythingSmartHome do you know of a card that can support cec?
@@MarcHeyer Any success with your CEC-chain? Have you tried creating an automation in HA? "If Receiver is switched to "ON" - Turn on TV"...
So I might be oke with sacraficing CEC (If I can automate / mirror the proces in HA) but will ARC remain functional between my Receiver and TV?
nice setup
Thanks!
Hello great video!
I have the NUC with HASSIO next to the TV. Do you know if it is possible to install hyperion on the NUC in Home Assistant Operating System?
Got it all set up with a new set of lights, brilliant job.
Sound cuts off sometimes any ideas
Nice! Usually a bad HDMI cable!
klThanks for the great video. This was great! I cant wait to do this project. I have a question though. I see a lot of people putting wled onto an esp8622 and connecting that to the LED strips. Then Hyperion separately. What is the purpose in the esp8622 running wled? You are doing everything out of a pie. Can you say what the difference is between these forms of the project?
hmmmm is it because they are running hyperion on a pc or mac and they need the gpio pin from the 8266?
Does this work connected to a home theatre receiver? Also, it seems like the raspberry 3 is all sold out or no longer in production. Do you recommend an alternative up to date model? Which GB model should I purchase if I find one?
Thank you very much for this video, it's super didactic. I set up my ambilight, but I'm having doubts about the connection scheme between the capture card and my TV. I have a TV with android system, and I want to capture the signal from the TV itself. In that case, how is the connection scheme for the card to capture the image of the TV itself through HDMI?
Thanks Arthur, unfortunately as mentioned in the video, you need an input
In your experience, do you find RGB led strip sufficient, or would you recommend going with the one with the added white led? And which white color would choose, WW, CW or NW?
RGB is sufficient for me but you may want white, I would probably go for a neutral white if I was going to pick up a white personally
@@EverythingSmartHome So Hyperion/HyperHDR does use the W channel in addition to the RGB channels? Thanks for a great video, btw!
Again thanks. From India.. ❤️❤️
My man Sanjay 🙌
This is very helpful, thank you for this video! Are you sure this capture card has HDR Passthrough? I can't find any information about HDR in the product description.. Other options would be way too expensive so this card would be perfect if HDR actually works. Thanks in advance for your help.
This particular one for me does yes!
Thanks for the awesome guide! I can't wait to start creating my own! Is it possible to control colour LED bulbs too? I have some LED bulbs in my living room which I would love to add to the setup. The bulbs are zigbee bulbs and work via my Home Assistant configuration (Zigbee2MQTT - ConBee II stick). Thanks!
Thanks for watching! I think you can if you use WLED!
@@EverythingSmartHome Would love to find a tutorial on this somewhere!
Did you already find a solution? I'd be glad if you could share it :)
Hey everyone, I just finished working on this. If you want to use 2 different power supplies. Remember to have a common ground or else the lights won't work at all. I experienced this
When you say the lights won’t work at all, do you mean none of them will come on, or they’ll come on but behave erratically ? I’ve been going insane trying to figure out why my lights won’t respond to Hyperion.
Thanks for the work, I love your channel! It looks you have a small typo in your script:
sudo apt update && sudo apt-upgrade -y should be sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y ?
Thanks for the comment! Your right, I noticed it a few days ago but forgot to change it, tha is for the reminder!
hello great tutorial as always... I have a couple of questions I don't see how you power up the hdmi capture card, does it power from the micro usb input on the Pi? and also does this work for DRM content like Netflix?
Thanks! Yes power for the card comes via the Pi.
Yes covered that in the video in the HDCP section
Will this work for dolby vision or hdr from an apple tv 4k?
I think it's worth mentioning here, that you got lucky that this worked, connected directly to the RPi GPIO pin. The LED strip is expecting a 5V PWM data signal...and the RPi only provides 3.3V. Trying this setup with SK6812 RGBW LEDs... doesn't work, and apparently requires a high speed voltage converter, between the GPIO pin, and the LED strip data connection, to step up the voltage. I have yet to make mine function...but I'm exploring the voltage converter IC solution, soon.
Pleas let us know if you managed to get this working :)
@@adamagrest8215 I did! ...using the Adafruit 74AHCT125 IC, by ungrounding the lower left ground on the IC according to their wiring info. I can't tell you WHY disconnecting that ground connection makes it function... but it does.
@@Ellington_Industrial_Arts I've got a similar situation where I've got SK6812 and a RPi 3B+. I cant get mind working at all, do you have a diagram or picture at all you could share? I'm trying to understand what I need to do to make this work.
@@Callum195 Adafruit has a diagram for their Voltage Converter. Follow that diagram, minus the second ground on the bottom left hand pin of the IC in their diagram.
I tried posting a reply with links and pictures, and UA-cam yanked it.
@@Ellington_Industrial_Arts You are a saint and a scholar. After getting it to work, do you think the RGBW strip was worth the extra effort? RGBW would fit better with the rest of the house, but not if it's too much of a pain lol.
Wow magnificent tutorial🔝 I follow you from Italy😉 a question: can this project reproduce the effect also from TV broadcasts? or does it rely only on the incoming videos of the cromecast? is a system for traditional TV broadcasts possible? thanks in advance😊
Thank you! It can do TV but only assuming you have a HDMI input
You can do it for regular TV broadcasting by using Kodi and TVheadend or DVBviewer (or any other PVR service in Kodi). You simply have to use a usb Tuner connected to the raspberry Pi 4 which runs LibreELEC with Hyperion.NG. There is an easy script installation available for LibreELEC…
There at multiple other solutions - just check the Hyperion-Project.org Forums
Hello 👋 I’m planing to make it with a RaspberryPi 4 that I got out from my helium mining rig and making sure I get everything correctly!
My first question is can I use a 12v LED strip? I would really like to use the WS2815 because of the back up channel so when 1 LED get burned it can still work correctly.
My second question is if it can be done how should I go about connecting it since the raspberryPi is a 5V
Last question is, my RaspberryPi has a heat sink connected to another board with a LoRa technology so how would I be able to make the fan work without the other board?
Hey
If using the Pi Zero 2 W, (instead of the Pi Zero W) would you change any of the settings in the video?
Thanks!
Do these HDMI switches support CEC control? In other words, do you have to use the remote to switch inputs or will it automatically switch when a device is turned on that supports CEC?
This is the first video I’ve seen that doesn’t use wled. Seems to simplify for,the tv. However if the ultimate goal is to add other leds to entertainment cabinets or nearby bookshelves, wled is needed to sync images. Correct?
Awesome Video bro. Keep it up.
Got stuck with this question, please guide me
What if, at 19:30 I am not using any sort of input device only using the Smart TV's apps. Then this capture card is not needed ah? Then how we can proceed.
Hey, I am about to start same project and was wondering exactly the same. I am using Netflix/UA-cam directly on the TV. Do you have any suggestions, how did you resolve it?
Also, I have a 5V 12 AMP power supply, but I still get bits of flickering every 3 to 5 seconds apart, but just a short burst.
Great video! I'm a noob to this, so 2 questions, if I may:
1) can I run Hyperion on the same pi as my home assistant? And
2) I have a fire stick 4k, will this setup let me use it as the source? With functioning Netflix, etc?
Thanks! You could but I wouldn't, Hyperion is pretty taxing on its own on the CPU.
Yes it will work
Great guide, gonna try this week. However, I see one major (for me) limitation. I won't use the 4k potential of my TV anymore for my Xbox... The video capture device have 4k input but 1080p output, meaning if I connect my Xbox to it, no more 4k output, I downscale to 1080p, right? As a matter of fact, I downscale all my content passing through it at 1080p from my understanding 🤔
Hello, thanks! I would suggest you go back and re-watch the video 😅 remember, 4K HDR is one of my main requirements
Looks really cool and I'd love to try it but having a bunch of loose wires behind my tv and the shipping time for getting all those things to Australia will probably keep me from doing it.
I usually use my TV built-in android box via USB to watch things I want and the TV built-in android box does not have an output hdmi for me to use the capture card. What should I do???
Great video by the way
Thanks for a gret video. I originally followed Dr Zzzzzzzs' tutorial (but upgraded with a 4K capture card) and that worked great. After seeing yours, I thought it'd be a good time to upgrade to HyperHDR and change my LEDs to SK6812 for better whites. However, the setting for SK6812 doesn't work. I'm guessing it doesn't use GPIO 18 on the Pi. Do you know how to get SK6812s working? Many thanks.
Thanks for the comment! There are some changes for the SK6812 you need, you need to be on GPIO10 for a start. Jump into the discord server if your stuck, there have been lots of discussion in the last couple of weeks there about HyperHDR and sk6812
When setting up the wires, did you strip the wires to expose the copper wire?
Just having another look over this because I have a spare pi 3b. You know the part where you create the files on the sd card, can this be done in macOS? I have a MacBook Pro on big sur and I’m not sure if it would be finicky with the file type!
Thanks for making this tutorial.
One question : with this setup can you turn off / on your tv using your chromecast google tv remote?
If your splitter supports CEC, yes.
Thanks for the great guide! Also, I have a question, if I just only have TV and I don't have any source media, so do I need to use capture card ?
Data that cannot be directed to the video card is also not available for ambilight, sadly.