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This is a clone of the AmbientLightServer by @waldobronchart that drives the Ambient Light rig I built. It captures colors from the TV using a webcam, then samples colors at the edge of the screen and updates a bunch of LEDs at the back with those colors.
The sampling region and other camera properties can be controlled by a separate client that connects up to this server. The client is a python qt application that lives in another repo: https://github.com/waldobronchart/AmbientLightPyClient
A video of the project and details on how I built it can be found on Waldo's blog blog:
- https://waldobronchart.com/note/ambient-light-tv-with-a-raspberry-pi-part1
- https://waldobronchart.com/note/ambient-light-tv-with-a-raspberry-pi-and-camera-part2
If you're interested in getting this to work and changing it fit your own needs, here's a long list of things you need to do to get it to build.
You'll need at least 4GB space on the card.
Installing download the install.sh file from the repo, and run it with: sh install.sh
This will remove the wolfram engine and libreoffice in order to make some room (8gb card minimum required) and install all the pre-requisites, and compile all the required software.
once finished, look at HardwareConfig.h to see how to set up your LEDs (you will need 2 strips).
At this point you may want to create a service that automatically runs it when the Pi boots.
