v0.3.1-beta

Changelog

• Added frame timeout slider. This configures the time a frame will wait for the previous frame to be send to the LEDS. Increasing this should help fix blinking lights due to timeouts. A higher number also results in lower fps.
• Manually configure LEDs per screenregion over multiple HUE+ devices & channels
• New config.json structure to support new functionality
• Possibility to blackout individual Hue+ devices, ignoring the config

Features

• Supports multiple Hue+
• Supports max 2 channels / Hue+
• Supports max 4 LED strips / channel
• Supports config.json to configure before launch
• Configurable LED/screenregions
• Disable individual Hue+
• Led Preview (BETA)

Requirements

• Windows
• NZXT HUE+
• DFMirage Mirror Driver

Installation

1. Ensure DFMirage Driver is installed
2. Unzip Huelight.zip
3. Configure Config.json
4. Run HueLight.exe

Known issues:

• LEDs are blinking
  • Solution: Try a combination of the following:
    • Turning on/off multithreading (Post an issue if it still ensues)
    • Increasing the frame timeout slider
• FPS might drop after a while
  • Solution: Restart HueLight+
• The application might crash on exit.
• The application might crash while using the BETA image preview
  • Solution: Restart HueLight+

Config.json Guide

• frameTimeout: (20-2000) - Set the max time the next frame will wait for the current one to be pushed to the LEDS
• preview: (true- false) - Enable the BETA preview mode. Only use this for testing your setup. It randomly crashes!
• multiThreading: (true - false) -Enables multithreading
• startsHidden: (true - false) - Wether the application starts minimized
• gamma: (0 - 100) - Higher results in less brightness, more pronounced colors
• delay: (0 - 1000) - Time in ms to wait after each frame,
• scanDepth: (1-200) - Depth in pixels from screenborder each region scans (Lower results in better performance but worse color accuracy)
• pixelsToSkipPerCoordinate: (1 - 200) - Amount of pixels to ignore per non ignored pixel in each LED region (Higher results in better performance but worse color accuracy)
• devices:
  • port: ('COM1' - 'COM....') - Port name of the device
  • isEnabled: (true-false) - Wether to enable this device or let it be black.
• ambilight: - Represents internal data structure
  • (right, left, top, bottom): - Represents side of the screen
    • screenRegions: Represents a region of pixels
      • leds: Represents multiple LEDS
        • device: (0 - ...) - Index of HUE+ defined in devices list
        • channel: (0 - 1) - Index of HUE+ channel
        • ledIndex: (0 - 39) - Index of LED on a channel

v0.3.0

Changelog

• Added multithreading support (might result in blinking lights)
• UI supports live configuration
  • Gamma
  • Scandepth
  • PixelsToSkipPerCoordinate
  • Delay
• Manually configure LEDs per screenregion over multiple HUE+ devices & channels
• New config.json structure to support new functionality
• Possibility to blackout individual Hue+ devices, ignoring the config

Features

• Supports multiple Hue+
• Supports max 2 channels / Hue+
• Supports max 4 LED strips / channel
• Supports config.json to configure before launch
• Configurable LED/screenregions
• Disable individual Hue+

Requirements

• Windows
• NZXT HUE+
• DFMirage Mirror Driver

Installation

1. Ensure DFMirage Driver is installed
2. Unzip Huelight.zip
3. Configure Config.json
4. Run HueLight.exe

Known issues:

• LEDs are blinking
  • Solution: Try turning on/off multithreading (Post an issue if it still ensues)
• FPS might drop after a while
  • Solution: Restart HueLight+
• The application might crash on exit.

Config.json Guide

• multiThreading: (true - false) -Enables multithreading
• startsHidden: (true - false) - Wether the application starts minimized
• gamma: (0 - 100) - Higher results in less brightness, more pronounced colors
• delay: (0 - 1000) - Time in ms to wait after each frame,
• scanDepth: (1-200) - Depth in pixels from screenborder each region scans (Lower results in better performance but worse color accuracy)
• pixelsToSkipPerCoordinate: (1 - 200) - Amount of pixels to ignore per non ignored pixel in each LED region (Higher results in better performance but worse color accuracy)
• devices:
  • port: ('COM1' - 'COM....') - Port name of the device
  • isEnabled: (true-false) - Wether to enable this device or let it be black.
• ambilight: - Represents internal data structure
  • (right, left, top, bottom): - Represents side of the screen
    • screenRegions: Represents a region of pixels
      • leds: Represents multiple LEDS
        • device: (0 - ...) - Index of HUE+ defined in devices list
        • channel: (0 - 1) - Index of HUE+ channel
        • ledIndex: (0 - 39) - Index of LED on a channel

v0.2.1

• Fixed a bug where config.json was ignored for ledNumbers

v0.2.0 (Bugged)

Changelog

• Optimized performance. Should easily get to 60fps which is where it gets bottlenecked by the NZXT Hue connection speed.
• Replaced config.ini with config.json for custom configuration
  • Default Gamma value has been changed from 1.0 to 2.8 (The lower the gamma the brighter all LEDS are);
  • Prepared config to handle multiple devices
  • Removed Hue+ Baudrate since it shouldn't be changed anyways
  • Supports 4 screenregions (left, right, top, bottom)
  • The screenregion is split into 1 block for every 1 LED.
  • Each LEDblock has a configurable channel and a channel position

Features

• Supports max 1 Hue+
• Supports max 2 Channels
• Supports max 4 LED strips / channel
• Supports config.json to configure before launch
• Configurable LED/screenregions

Requirements

• Windows
• NZXT HUE+
• DFMirage Mirror Driver

Installation

1. Ensure DFMirage Driver is installed
2. Unzip Huelight.zip
3. Configure Config.json
4. Run HueLight.exe

Known issues:

• config.json ledNumbers aren't used
• Might crash on exit

v0.1.0

Features

• Supports max 1 Hue+
• Supports max 2 Channels
• Supports max 4 LED strips / channel
• Supports config.ini to configure before launch

Requirements

• Windows
• NZXT HUE+
• DFMirage Mirror Driver

Known issues:

• Might crash on exit