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Anyone have the Hue Lightstrip?
Posted on 7/16/18 at 10:13 pm
Posted on 7/16/18 at 10:13 pm
If so, how does it work and would I need to buy two if cabinets are separated by the sink in kitchen?
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Posted on 7/16/18 at 11:50 pm to The Levee
I have a couple they work good I would get 2 if there is a split in cabinets otherwise install would look shity
Posted on 7/17/18 at 7:47 am to tigersmanager
Have one behind my TV in my entertainment center and with the new hue light set up it works good as they all change with the movie/tv.
Posted on 7/17/18 at 8:59 am to bengalman
I read about that. How does setup work for it? Never understood how the light strip worked with the tv
Posted on 7/17/18 at 9:21 am to The Levee
Have one underneath the bar of my outdoor kitchen, we had to gorilla glue it because the adhesive on the back they put didn’t stick worth a damn.
If you have a gap you’ll have to get 2, you can’t cut it. We had an awkward turn on ours where it sticks up a little bit, but it’s not noticeable underneath the bar counter
If you have a gap you’ll have to get 2, you can’t cut it. We had an awkward turn on ours where it sticks up a little bit, but it’s not noticeable underneath the bar counter
Posted on 7/17/18 at 10:34 am to LSU-MNCBABY
Posted on 7/17/18 at 12:14 pm to LSU-MNCBABY
I connected/extended a strip to bridge the distance over my stove. (Tunneled through hood). Bought the extension on amazon. Don’t remember how long it was but think 8 or 10 feet.
Posted on 7/17/18 at 3:03 pm to The Levee
I put a motion detector in my kitchen that turns on the strip if motion is detected after the sunset. Works great.
Posted on 7/17/18 at 10:45 pm to tigersmanager
Just bought 2 for the prime day special of $64 ea. ($25 off)
Bought a hub
And
A motion sensor. Should be pretty sweet
Bought a hub
And
A motion sensor. Should be pretty sweet
Posted on 7/18/18 at 10:37 am to The Levee
If anyone needs a hub let me know. I'm about to have an extra one because it was cheaper to buy a kit than just the bulbs.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 10:43 am to lsugrad35
i have been wanting one of these for behind my TV for awhile but i don't see how you are supposed to set it up to sync with whatever is on the screen.
they just released hue sync but that only works if you're casting something from your computer screen to the TV.
they just released hue sync but that only works if you're casting something from your computer screen to the TV.
Posted on 7/18/18 at 10:55 am to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
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i have been wanting one of these for behind my TV for awhile but i don't see how you are supposed to set it up to sync with whatever is on the screen.
Accent lighting is not all that they're good for when used with TVs. For instance, I have mine set as bias lighting. It's set to the color temperature of the white that my TV is set at and it just stays like that. It provides a field of white on the wall behind the TV that matches the whites on the TV to create the effect of more contrast for the darker colors and blacks on the screen.
Plus, it just looks cool as shite.
Anyway, to the best of my knowledge, for TV accent lighting, solutions include streaming from your computer to the TV and running a program on your computer that extracts screen colors to drive the Hue system. There are other solutions that do something similar, but use the camera on your phone pointed at the TV to extract color information. I think there are also crowd sourced solutions for some movies where people go in and frame by frame select colors to go with the movie. You play the movie on your computer and stream, but instead of a program reading the video output and picking a color using an algorithm, there's a synced display track that gets sent to the Hue system.
For TV, Blu-Ray, etc., I don't think there are any easy or baked in solutions for Hue Entertainment yet. It seems that Philips should have a no-brainer on getting this working because they were the ones who made the Ambilight TVs a few years back that did EXACTLY what you're asking about.
But, no.
This post was edited on 7/18/18 at 11:07 am
Posted on 7/18/18 at 12:14 pm to TigerstuckinMS
Why did they stop making the ambient TVs?
This post was edited on 7/18/18 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 7/20/18 at 12:26 pm to The Levee
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Why did they stop making the ambient TVs?
Posted on 7/20/18 at 1:47 pm to TigerstuckinMS
About the Ambilight stuff...
I'm about to follow this guide for a DIY solution using cheaper LED strips rather than Philips. It should work with any HDMI input and doesn't require any pre-made color streams, computers (unless you count the Raspberry Pi), or cameras.
Total cost counting the Pi is around $150. Here's how it works:
HDMI splitter takes your input and sends one stream straight to the TV and the other to an HDMI-AV adapter. The video exits the AV adapter and goes to a USB video frame grabber, which is plugged into the Raspberry Pi. The Pi runs software that processes the video and drives the LED strips.
The build/setup looks pretty involved, but it looks like anyone with the time and initiative can follow the steps.
The big plus for me with a DIY solution is it's very flexible. For example, it would be simple to hook up a motion sensor to the Pi to make it function as a night-light. Or you can make it light up or flash any pattern you like if your phone rings, or if your existing camera/motion detector sees someone coming to the door, or whatever.
I'm about to follow this guide for a DIY solution using cheaper LED strips rather than Philips. It should work with any HDMI input and doesn't require any pre-made color streams, computers (unless you count the Raspberry Pi), or cameras.
Total cost counting the Pi is around $150. Here's how it works:
HDMI splitter takes your input and sends one stream straight to the TV and the other to an HDMI-AV adapter. The video exits the AV adapter and goes to a USB video frame grabber, which is plugged into the Raspberry Pi. The Pi runs software that processes the video and drives the LED strips.
The build/setup looks pretty involved, but it looks like anyone with the time and initiative can follow the steps.
The big plus for me with a DIY solution is it's very flexible. For example, it would be simple to hook up a motion sensor to the Pi to make it function as a night-light. Or you can make it light up or flash any pattern you like if your phone rings, or if your existing camera/motion detector sees someone coming to the door, or whatever.
Posted on 7/20/18 at 8:33 pm to Korkstand
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I'm about to follow this guide for a DIY solution using cheaper LED strips rather than Philips.
I've seen that. I debated whether to do that when I got the lightstrip, but ultimately, I like using the lightstrip as part of the Hue system when I'm not using the TV, so I went that route.
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