Sim Racing Ambient Lighting is now BETTER THAN EVER! Philips HUE COMPLETE Setup Guide!
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- In this new Guide I'll show you how to set up your Philips HUE lights step by step and how you can use the new SimHub plugin to make them as accurate as possible!
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IMPORTANT LINKS FOR THIS GUIDE:
SimHub DOWNLOAD:
www.simhubdash.com/download-2/
Philips HUE Bridge:
www.amazon.com.au/Philips-Hue...
Philips HUE Play Bar (2 Pack):
www.amazon.com.au/Philips-Hue...
Philips HUE Phone APP:
play.google.com/store/search?...
Philips HUE PC APP:
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Video Contents:
00:00 INTRO
00:15 HUE LIGHT SETUP - SKIP IF YOU DONT NEED THIS!
04:05 SIMHUB SETUP
06:36 SIMPLE METHOD
08:24 COMPLEX METHOD
09:28 EXAMPLE FOOTAGE
11:21 OUTRO
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If you guys get stuck or have any further questions please leave them in the comments below 🙂
My sim hub will not find my hue bridge. I click add device and it it just searches....
@@ryanjursik410 did you put your hue bridge in pairing mode?
@@alexkayracing i figured it out!!! Thanks man
@@ryanjursik410 all good man! What did you do differently?
@@alexkayracing hey i found out its working off of hue app on pc and not through sim hub. My sim hub cant find hue bridge. How do i have sim hub find the bridge?
Awesome. Thanks for sharing. I’ll be switching my setup over to Simhub today. What an amazing piece of software. Don’t know what I’d do without it. Highly suggest everyone buy a license and support the creator.
My pleasure mate, yes definitely he deserves the support because he’s helped the simracing community so much 🔥
Crazy, I just bought these lights yesterday was really frustrated with the old method, so glad that you put this out at the perfect timing! Thank you.
My pleasure mate enjoy! Yep once you’ve set it up in simhub you can uninstall the hue pc app as you’ll never use it again. The phone app needs to stay. But you never need to open it again unless you want to add more lights to your entertainment area
Works amazing! Easier than the Hue app with the little dots and nit really knowing where the hell im putting it. Always appreciate and love the detail and quality of your videos!
Thank you my friend, I agree what I love is that it’s honestly so easy now that a beginner could set it up easily, and an expert could take this and make something truly in depth and accurate. The possibilities are fully unlocked now 🔥
Amazing tutorial and rig as always! I have the hue setup through their app following your other video, going to work on fine tuning today with this amazing video! Keep up the awesome work! So helpful to the community! 👏🏻👏🏻 thank you. 👊🏻
My pleasure brother and thank you for watching!
Just remember:
You no longer need to drag those lights around on the phone app. Just place them in the room and that’s it!
Once you have the lights running through sim hub, you can uninstall the hue sync app from your PC. It’s not longer needed :)
Yes Alex, another one. 💪 I’ll have a full look at this video when I’m home. Can’t wait to get inspired and taught again! 😊🥳
Happy to help brother 🙏 any questions at all let me know 🙂
Awesome tutorial! I was just thinking the other day that it would be so nice if simhub would have an option to setup hue. I will absolutely be doing this! Thank you!
No problem mate enjoy!
Man I´m so glad I ran into your channel. Not only I love seeing your inmersive rig, but I would never have thought of combining simhub with phillips hue (due to lack of knowledge). With simhub I´ll be able to finally propery set up my lights :´)
Thanks so much for your kind words mate👍 if you get stuck at all setting it up just let me know here :)
@@alexkayracing thx mate, really appreciate. Keep up the good work!
Many thanks mate, really better. Your tutorial is perfect, I like the way that you described even for non hue owners, I meaning for beginners. Good job. Thank you very much! 😊
No problem and thanks for watching! Enjoy 🙏
Thanks for the video! I have 3 play bars, 2 Govee bars with light strips on the back of triple screen setup, and 4 govee bulbs in lamps. I didn't know simhub worked with lights. I also use them for other games along with 8 shakers. Thanks again
No problem! I believe Dave Cam made a video specifically for setting up govee lights, I’ll leave it for you here: ua-cam.com/video/XEJrBLtcSBk/v-deo.htmlsi=h33ZFejduG2CjaZH
Best update! Tried it a couple of hours ago.
Thanks for sharing!
No problem mate enjoy!
Dude this Simhub guide was outstanding. Thank you
My pleasure mate enjoy!
If light is hitting the left side of your cockpit, then your right hand should be lit since the sun is coming from the right. That is not necessarily true for the left hand as you have the windshield post. I use two lights on the top that read the dashboard and two lights on the sides that read the side of the cockpit. It is still bound to preference but i found that broke the immersion for me since my brain was not understanding why my left hand was getting lit and not my right hand if the sun was on my right
That’s a fair point actually man, I will try that out for myself thanks for sharing 🙂
What a great tutorial/guide for this!! Well done 👍
No problem mate thanks for watching!
Sim Hub is Awesome. THanks for Sharing this , I had no idea about the new feature
My pleasure mate, yes me too! One of the awesome people in our community told me it had just come out a couple days ago!
Looks cool I'll have to try it now it's in sim hub 👌 nice video bro
My pleasure bro enjoy 🙏
wow i don't know if its simhub that makes the difference but i have a Hue light running on its own software and it is no where near as responsive as in your video. Definitely going to try going through SH, thanks Alex!! keep up the good work!
Hey made thanks for watching! I feel like the sim hub app takes off any limitations that the hue sync software has in place for the lights, and that’s why you get a better response time with lower latency!
I’m new to your channel but really enjoying your content! I would love to see how you have installed the hue bars buddy
Hey mate thanks for watching! You can see how they attach to the rig here in the store page for the mounts! www.etsy.com/au/listing/1218865495/phillips-hue-play-bar-modular-mount
Excellent Alex, well done...
Thanks mate enjoy 👍
Yes yes yes!! Amazing Alex!
Thank you my friend enjoy!
Looking forward to the follow up for the best settings.
Awesome mate thanks for your support 🙏
That looks really cool. Thanks for the video.
No problem! Thanks for watching 🙏
Thanks, I’ll try this out tonight.
No problem mate best of luck 🙏
Great video Alex 👏🏻
Thanks mate, and thanks for letting me know the feature was available 🙏
Got sim hub just for this it’s great awesome video
Enjoy mate! Yes simhub is such a useful tool when it comes to sim racing I love jt
I could be wrong on this as I am just about to jump in and set mine up, but, I don't think you need the screen cap and add to desktop step. The freeze can be taken from within the game, using a hotkey. If you alt tab out of the game, you should have that capture showing on the simhub screen. Then you simply do the boxes from there.
Good point actually I didn’t think of that. For me I’m a paranoid person I don’t like to push my pc too hard cos I’m scared it’ll blow up 😂 so I guess doing it my way put my heart at ease lol. Probably me overthinking things though
Mate!!!!!! Awesome!!!!!! Keep Going!!!!!!
Thank you brother 🙏
Great video but I’d like to see this whole exact setup going through some tunnels or street lights on AC or similar stuff in ATS. As that’s where you’re going to notice them the most because most races are just plain daylight races in ACC or iracing , etc.
It works great in tunnels etc :) Infact in that night time footage at the end. You can see where I drive Under the green start light at speed it actually picks the green colour up! So yes it’s very impressive
Thank You Bro! You're Great!
My pleasure mate enjoy!
Great Video
Thanks!
Amazing! It looks like you cracked the code to setting these up properly. Now with that being said when we’re switching cars and we want to select new capture points and areas, can we still select a hot key? Relatively because every single car is capture point and area differentiates as well as the time of day you want different capture areas for these points. Forgive me if I missed it, but is there a hot key that you can set for each individual screen via Sim hub or do you have to go back into Sim hub and switch it out every time of day and every vehicle?awesome video as always bro
Hey bro, I believe if you go to the controls tab on that screen there should be a similar key binding UI to the dash template screen? I can confirm for you tonight, the feature is still new and missing some quality of life stuff (no button yet to swap entertainment areas. But the simhub creator is working hard to make new feature for it since it’s been received so well!
Great video man. I set this up last week. Works well with all sims but stops with iRacing for some reason. Will try Nvidia surround and see if that fixes the issue
Let me know how you go mate cos I’ve only tried it with ACC so far! Thanks for watching 🙏
Great video I tried the Govee with no luck there was supposed to be a update for them but nothing yet. I think it's time to try these out.
Best of luck setting them up mate! If you have any questions let me know :)
@@alexkayracing will do thanks
So update. I changed to the Phillips hue lights and they are working great.
@@Hole-shot YESSSS well done mate enjoy!
Thanks a lot for this video. One question: until now I had the positioning via the Hue PC/Mobile App; do I need to delete that setup first before trying the new method via SimHub? Thanks
Thanks for watching mate! No you don’t. You just can’t use them at the same time :)
Hi Alex, is the an eight light limit, and if not how would I add lights that are already attached to the respective hub. Thanks!
Hey mate I have not actually checked that! How many lights are you using on your system? I am only using 4
Thanks for the video Alex. Do the lights turn off automatically when you are out of the sim or turn the pc off? Or is a manual process each time? I know this option exists within the Hue PC app. TIA
Hey bro thanks for watching. At the moment no it does not turn the hue lights off when you turn the PC off. The feature is still very new (only couple days old) so in the future more stuff like that will come :)
I currently use a streamdeck/hotkey to activate the hue sync windows app (start sync). Can you use keyboard shortcuts to activate simhub hue profiles in the same way? Great vid thanks. 😊
Hey mate I have yet to check this feature but I saw there is a “controls” tab which if my guess is correct will be the same as the one for the dash templates. So yes you should be able to do that :)
Does this only work when you have your cockpit steady? I'm driving with the horizon locked, so the dashboard goes up and down.
You might experience some changes if you have car movement enabled in game, but give it a try and see if you like it or not cos the changes shouldn’t be too drastic
night shots look insane
The accuracy from passing under the lights so was good🔥
@@alexkayracing watching your race logic video. I’ve heard a few mention “replica” but no one ever explained the pricing and differences.
@@JerrySpallonethanks for checking it out mate, yeah it’s a massive price difference between the replicas and the real thing!
@Alex Kay, First of all thanks for bringing up this solution for the Hue lights. I have a question regarding the setup options. I use the triple screen method but without Nvidia surround. How can I get the light input from my side "windows" (screens)?
Hey mate I believe there is a new feature in the latest update that lets you preview your triple screens now even if you don’t use nvidia surround! I however have not been able to test it as I am currently busy making the new ACC GT2 showcase video. When I get a chance I will take a look!
@@alexkayracingI just updated Simhub and found that feature... unfortunately i can not select all 3 screens at the same time...
BTW Thanks for the quick reply!!@@alexkayracing
@@rolandfokkens no problem, I’ll have a look when I get a chance okay :)
I have a triple monitor setup that's supported natively by Assetto Corsa and I'd like my side lights to reflect the image in my side monitors. It looks like there's no way to get SimHub to pay attention to my side monitors without using Nvidia Surround. Is that correct or is there a way to sync to the side monitors without Nvidia Surround?
Hey brother with the latest version of simhub I believe there’s a capture area tab or something like that? Check that and see if it lets you use your non-surround triple setup! But at the time of me making this video, no there was no support for non-surround triple setups sorry
Mate, you are the best. This is an amazing tutorial. Much appreciated sir.
Question: why are you placing the lights in the app basically ontop of eachother? Why not at the left or right side in front of the screen when using two lights.
I'm a bit puzzled by this.
Hey mate do you mean on the phone app or the simhub app?
The phone app light placement doesn’t matter anymore as Simhub controls this now, so that lights just have to be in the entertainment area and that’s it.
For the Simhub app, you can definitely put one light on the left and one on the right if you want (I think one of the methods I showed was this)
A reason I mentioned putting them ontop of eachother is that sometimes having your left light light up and not your right can be distracting for some people (for example those who might suffer from epilepsy etc.) so it’s more comfortable on the eyes to have all your lights behaving the same way at all times.
This of course is completely up to you! Start playing with the light placement and find your favourite 😁
@@alexkayracing thank you for your reply. I indeed referred to the phone app. I can't get used to calling Windows software 'apps'. I'm probably too old 🤣
I had a go at simhub and it did work. Unfortunately i can't get the preview window big enough for precise selecting. But in the end i will make it work.
Thanks again for your tutorial. 🙏🏻
@@YoastZilla yep on the phone app you don’t have to worry about that anymore! That was the way I found worked best after a lot of testing. But now this way using simhub makes that old way with the phone app redundant:) so now you can just put them wherever you want in that phone app it doesn’t matter there now.
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Your Windownet how do you make it ???
The Side on the right Side how do you make it?
Do you have a Video to help me and others😊
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Grettings from A new Simracer from Bavaria
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Hey brother thank you for kind words! You can see how I made the centre console here! ua-cam.com/video/MmwTYPmnp-0/v-deo.htmlsi=PN2mop18gh39s7Up
Thx mate!
No problem mate enjoy!
Thanks bro 👊‼️😎🔝
All good brother 🙏
Thanks for sharing this amazing tip. I'm curious, why using SimHub to control the lights vs using the Hue software the runs on Windows?
Hey mate, because the simhub software lets you place exactly on the screen where your lights take the colour from, you can make the boxes as small or as large as you like. The pc app is much harder to use and setup
@@alexkayracing wow... fantastic answer... makes perfect sense if a user wants to "isolate" the light from the dashboard for example...
@@youngyingyang it’s a really amazing update mate enjoy! Thanks again for watching🙏
My question was Sim hub and Phillips hue is instead of using them as ambient lights. Is there a way to just have flag lights with Sam hub? That's what I'm after with my hue lights. It's just strictly flag lights that will stay on the current flag at all times. Meaning, if the green flag is out, the light stays green until the yellow comes out and when the yellows out it stays yellow until the green comes out whatever the track state may be
That’s a good question mate. I think that the way you could do that here is have something like a flag overlay on your screen “there’s plenty on simhub for that” and then drag the box for the light around that flag indicator (you would obviously make sure it’s on the screen when you take your screenshot)
That should solve your problem!
How do you film your screen with a camera, and make it look so … not washed out by light?
I use a go pro! The key is having enough light in the cockpit so that you can have your cameras ISO setting all the way down to minimum, that will remove the washed out appearance
What is dark scene and light scene... mine is set on auto and its always dark scene selected
.....the gamma corection is all way down... and edit dection area is for each box or ??? And if i set bottom in phillip hue app... is the bottom too in simhub???
I have not played with the dar/night mode yet but gamma I leave as the default, going higher makes the colour darker, lower makes it brighter.
When you use simhub you cannot use the Philips hue app at the same time, only one :)
@@alexkayracing what nomber is default hehe
@@rcdb4160 I believe it was 1? I’ll have to check when I get home
Is there any way to do this without setting up an entertainment area in the hue app? I have a bunch of non-Hue RGB zigbee lights connected to my Hue hub and i can control the colours of these lights just fine myself in the Hue app. The problem is the hue sync app in windows doesn't allow me to do anything without creating an entertainment area. And i can't create an entertainment area in the app unless i have official Philips Hue RGB bulbs...
OpenRGB can control these lights just fine without the Hue Sync app or using entertainment areas. I wish simhub had a plugin for OpenRGB as that would create a much more powerful way to control lights.
Hey mate thanks for watching, as far as I know Simhub requires an entertainment area to be chosen in order to control the HUE lights specifically. Maybe in the future the sim hub creator will offer more open ended control as he’s always improving the program
Anny Recommandation on the time and track on iracing for best results? I tried 7 am like you mentioned on your older video but i can`t get annything good ... especialy on monza. Good video by the way!
He mate did you have the HDR function turned on? I remember road Atlanta is another good one it’s almost blinding when the suns out 😂
@@alexkayracing yes hdr in on
i will try Atlanta! What time?
@@alphapoutine6336 I did an endurance race there but can’t remember the exact time, but it was sunset I believe so maybe 7pm or something?
hi , great vid ! my phone is not compatable whit the hue light app what can i do ? thanks .
Unfortunately bro you need to have something running the phone app, do you have a tablet maybe? It jus needs to be some kind of smart device
@@alexkayracing i have a tablet a samsung galaxy ... just instaled Hue , all i need now are the lights . thanks !
@@benoitparadis602 no problem bro enjoy!
Great Video! I noticed my profiles aren't working.. can cave, clone and load, but they don't change a thing. Are they really working for you?
They definitely are mate! Did you try downloading the latest version? It has a few fixes in it
I Just did, but still same issue :/ Capture areas remain the same@@alexkayracing
@@jischjosch5094okay I’ll have a look when I get a chance and get back to you :)
Thank you so much!
Is there any way to adjust the output while racing. They dim to about half of the lights output when I begin the race.
You can adjust their brightness in simhub. Turning the gamma value down to 0.5 also makes them way brighter
Thanks I'll give that a try. I'll probably pick up a couple more lights it's easy to see how four would give a more balanced effect
@@davidleagjeld5401 yeah two is okay but 4 for me gave me they real "wow" factor definitely
Do have one question. I'm currently running ACC, at Zolder at night but when the street lights hit the dash nothing is changing? Am i missing something?
Hey mate how many lights do you have?
@@alexkayracing I have two.
@@AdamKaylor keep playing around with the placement, you might have to put your lights where the light is touching your cars A-pillar (depending if you can see it if you’re using triple screen)
Two lights is harder for night time because you might have to make a specific profile just for night time driving, due to only having 2 lights
Hey Alex, what about the settings for device brightness and color gamma correction that are associated with each of the lights loaded into sim hub? I can't find anyone who can explain the proper settings for this? Thank you!
Hey mate thanks for watching, in the video footage there I used just the default so even that looks really good! When I get a chance to test these out in detail I will make another video on them.
What I have noticed with brightness though is that the % in simhub goes higher than the one in the sync app. So 150% in simhub would be equal to 100% in the hue sync app. So if you used to use a certain percentage
For example I used 75% usually in my videos with sync app, I had to make it about 100 - 105% in the sim hub app.
@@alexkayracing thanks for the quick response! I’ve been trying for a couple of months now to try and alter the color gamma and determine the best settings for day and night tracks. Also, it would be great to see how you would set up a F1 car in Assetto or anywhere else to see how you would best place the lights in an open wheel set up. Thanks again!
@@BigPastaUnitedSimCo that’s idea! Once the Le Mans ultimate release videos wrap up at the end of this month I can look into it :)
Does this also work with a govee g1 strip?
I have not used govee lights before but I believe they are compatible with this method also 👍
This doesn't work for me either. I once tried to place a window on the pit limiter for night racing. But the Hue lamp didn't change to green. You still have to deactivate it in the Hue app. Otherwise I did everything like in your video. And once again a great video, great work.
Hey mate sorry this didn’t work for you, if you would like some extra help trying to set it up let me know 👍 thanks for watching!
Could it be because I have the game setting active in the Hue Sync on the PC for e.g. Iracing, AMS2?
@@Plan_B72 you no longer need to use the hue sync pc app with this method! You only have to open it in sim hub now. That’s probably why this is happening
It works now fine .Realy thank you @@alexkayracing
@@Plan_B72yess!!! Well done mate enjoy 😁
Thank you ❤
My pleasure mate 🙏
How do you get a triple screen capture? I can can only grab the center monitor.
You need to have nvidia surround turned on
@@alexkayracing That's going to be a deal breaker for me, unfortunately. Too many things I don't like about surround. Thanks for the reply.
@@JGW5000 no problem mate, I’m sure in future updates of the simhub app it’ll enable non surround capture, it’s one of the more popular requests from what I’ve seen
Is it also possible with the smart light strip
Yes any hue light you can use 👍
Does this work with the play gradient light strip?
It will work with any Philips Hue Light system 👍
Do you need to have a wi fi card inside the pc? I can use it in sync with the philip app but I don’t see it on simhub
If it works from your Phillips Hue PC App then it should be working with simhub as well
@@alexkayracingAlex I don’t have the wi fi on my pc, but I still don’t see my hub I have to press the button on the bridge first.
@@zazadj1 so when you say you can use the Philips hue sync do you mean with the pc app or the phone app?
I can use with Pc and iPhone apps, I can select the air of interest through the app on iPhone and it can enter it on Hue sync, but if I go to sim hub I don’t see my bridge
How were you steering with your hands on the dash?
Hey mate that was just a replay file playing. I had my hands extended so you could see easily how to colour of the light was changing
What colour settings is everyone using? There's the device brightness, colour gamma correction, minimum colour, and the luminosity gamma correction. Particularly wondering what the minimum colour refers to. The rest is pretty much self explanatory.
These are all new toys that I will have to take time to test mate! In the video I had everything set to standard and the brightness at 100%.
I think that brightness slider might be a bit off. Like as in, I feel like 150% on simhub might be the same as 100% on the hue sync app. So for for example I usually use about 80% on the hue sync app, so 100% seemed the same for me on sim hub.
Gamma correction and greyscale etc. I’ll have to take some time to play with all these :)
Hi Alex, big fan of your work here! Question: do you need a separate Hue Bridge for this to work or can you use an already existing bridge?
You can use your existing one. I can run Hue app one minute and then swap over to the Simhub setup the next. You just can't run them at the same time, Hue app will have a warning that it's syncing to Simhub.
Hey mate yes the above comment is correct you can use the same bridge just not at the same time!
In fact, once you have your lights all set up and working on simhub, you can actually delete the hue light PC app from your system if you like! The phone app needs to stay though.
Thanks again for your kind words, I believe I saw one of your videos the other night, keep up the great work 👍
@alexkayracing what do you mean by 'not at the same time'? Does it mean that when I have my Hue lights on in my house, I cannot use simhub syncing with the hue lights on my rig?
@@frankvanderheide I am not sure about that one as I only use hue lights for my rig not around the house. But basically the bridge can only be suing “sync mode” on one system at a time. I believe you can turn other hue lights on manually though, just not running in sync mode
@@alexkayracingCool. I'll try it out.
thanks a lot !!!!
No problem 😁
@@alexkayracing ok I just treid following the method step by step but when getting back into the game the lights are not reacting at all .... they all stay with a fix color ..... did you have / see this issue ? thanks
@@dd-gk1tv hey mate no that sounds weird. Do you by any chance have the hue light pc app open when you’re trying to doing this? Turn that off and let simhub control everything cos you don’t need the hue sync pc app anymore
Hey I’m following along here but I don’t have ambient lighting plugin in simhub. How do I get that?
You have to update to the latest version of sim hub. Then enable the plugin in the settings menu
@@alexkayracing that was it. I was missing one version. Quick question though. I have two lights above my middle screen but when filming with a GoPro, you can see the lights and reflection a little bit. Would love to see how you film to get lights out of video when you make a video!
@@HungryYett you’ll need to put some pieces of black card/thick paper covering the edges to stop the glare, that will fix the problem :)
@@alexkayracing where do you put the? On top of monitors?
@@HungryYett the lights? No I use a 3D printed mount for them, there’s a link for them in the video description
Just the video I needed however for whatever reason it keeps losing the bridge connection in simhub.
That’s strange I’ve never seen that happen before mate, could be internet related? Or maybe the distance between your bridge and the lights?
@@alexkayracing It disconnects from sim hub and the boxes that you use to place where the light source is to pickup don't light up red when clicking on them unless I disable and re-enable and seconds later it disconnects. The bridge in general stays connected the normal way. It seems to lose it after starting ACC.
@@alexkayracing My lights and bridge are in the same room. Maybe I'll just have to go back on how I had it setup before. Thanks for the response.
Sorry to hear this mate I’m not sure what that issue could be to be honest. Maybe a stability issue, I would say check back on simhub whenever it gets updated etc and see if the problem gets fixed from updates
@@alexkayracing Yup yup thank you. I just reverted back.
why my simhub ambient light in bluetooth / govee lights has no profile manager , edit profile and clone profile?
Did you update to the latest version of simhub? Should say Bluetooth/govee/hue lights
@@alexkayracing oh i see there's a new update thank you and its now working
All good mate enjoy!
great job.. more complicated..
It’s much easier to do now mate 👍
@@alexkayracing yes IT îs....i View your video again....thanks for suport !
@@TheZoinxtorque thanks brother 🙏
At what height above your monitors did you mount the lightbars?
I can measure for you tomorrow when I wake up (1am here now) 🙂
@@alexkayracing just a little reminder 😃
Sorry for the late response mate, I just checked it’s about 50cm from the lights to my head
Hi Alex, did you disconnect from the phillips hue program/app?
Yep don’t use the Philips HUE pc app anymore once you set up simhub! But you still have to have to phone app
@alexkayracing ok, thankyou.
@@alexkayracingah, thanks for this important information. So I should deinstall the Hue PC app.
@@alexanderdegenhardt7471 you don’t have to :)
Hi there, thank you for your tutorial, but I have a problem that I can't resolve. impossible for me to activate the “freeze capture” mode in simhub, I cannot follow the tutorial to the end. thank you in advance for your help. 🏎️😊
Thanks for watching! Could you please explain why it won’t let you enable the freeze capture mode in Simhub? Is it because you cannot see the button or for another reason?
Thanks
@@alexkayracing impossible for me to see the button I spent 2 hours on it yesterday 😅
@@louissimracer you can keybind it to your keyboard in sim hub and then push that button when you’re in game and it will do it :)
@@alexkayracing I can't do it :/
I think it's because a SImhub update. After i saw this video 2 weeks ago i setup my Hue bars like in the video with "freeze capture". But now that option isn't available instead There's "Pause capture" and "Pause with Time" both will do the job.
is this solution worth more the sync app? why i should change form the philips app to simhub for this?
It definitely is better than the hue sync app in most cases. You get complete control over where your lights take the colour from, compared to the sync app which uses a “range” to decide which colour to display.
You also get a way faster response time from the lights, even when travelling at high speed the lights will catch a colour even if it only appears for a split second
@@alexkayracing thanks! How can i choose triple screen in simhub? In tje settings i can only capture the default monitor or just 1 of 3 screen so i can't use the triple screenshot
@@DjCamme98 there was a new update for simhub which may have enabled this but I haven’t had time to check yet, but download the latest update and have a look! If it doesn’t then yes you will need to enable nvidia surround for your triples to get that triple screen preview, if not then use the simple method that I mentioned here.
@@alexkayracing so i have to enable nvidia surround just for the settings then turn back to "normal" ad simhub will works? No further update for light in simhub, i use it normally for basshakers
@@DjCamme98 no you will have to keep nvidia surround on if you want to use that complex method I mentioned, but honestly the simple method is fine there’s still plenty of places to take like from in your centre monitor👍
Do you know what the color effects and position mean? I can’t find any literature
I’ll have a look and let you know mate
@@alexkayracing much appreciated thank you.
@@Matt-hw6so my pleasure 👍
Hi Alex did you happen to figure it out?
@@Matt-hw6so so far from testing I found that reducing the gamma to 0.5 will make the lights a lot brighter and less saturated which is great👍 I’m still trying to understand the other stuff
Funny, I’m watching this on my Philips ambilight tv 😊
Haha nice! Wait… Philips made an ambilight tv? 🤯
@@alexkayracingI’ve got the 48” oled. Really nice! I’ve also got these light bars from this video. I can connect these to work with the tv or just standalone as in your vid
@@tdhitchins wow I’m gonna check that tv out 🔥
For the video certainly looks really amazing, but isn't it annoying to have the lights in front of your eyes? Aren't they distracting? this is my concern before give it a try.
Thanks for watching mate, no the lights are actually above me so they are shining on me not at me 👍
Are those 4 lights the only light you have on when driving?
Hey mate most of the time yes, sometimes I have a small logitech light but I rarely use it
@@alexkayracing gotcha. Yeah I tried filming with my GoPro but it looked very bad with my lighting. What camera do you film with? Cause with the GoPro low light the FPS isn’t the best. Looks digital
@@HungryYett I use a go pro 11 and have the ISO down to the lowest. Then make sure there’s enough lighting in your cabin area :)
@@alexkayracing I have same camera. Do you record with OBS? I don’t know how to adjust settings on GoPro with OBS. And I ordered 2 of those Phillips lights today. Coming Monday!
@@HungryYett for UA-cam I record straight off the camera
Great video, can you share profile?
Sure man I can send it tomorrow 👍
@@alexkayracing awesome thank you so much
@@alexkayracing Hello Alex, just friendly reminder about ambient profile for simhub, thank you
@@ddsracingfl omg so sorry brother, which car do you need profile for?
@@alexkayracingfor iracing
1:57 what do you have around the hue lights
Hey mate it’s just thick black paper wrapped around to act as a blinder, to stop reflections and glare