There is a fork of Hyperion for 4K HDR output and improved led color saturation called HyperHDR. I am using it with a 4K Elgato capture card on a 85 inch TV in my living room. It was cheaper than buying a Philips Hue setup, I also get all the same HDR functionality and audio outputs as the Philips. Another suggestion is Hyperion and HyperHDR can be automated with Home Assistant if you are using it. You can setup some interesting automations with it for notifications. I have mine start blinking blue if my laundry is done and it won't stop until I remove my clothes from the washer or dryer.
Hey afcragg, thanks for the awesome tips! I know a lot of people are using 4k panels so great info for them. I, personally, am going to look into the automation part with Home Assistant.
Hey AeroUNO1. Yeah I know it's easier to just buy a kit but building it gave me a sense of pride and accomplishment and an opportunity to impress my wife 😄
Excellent video, i might just try it out if the price is justifiable just 1 recommendation - DO NOT use electrical tape on the back of your tv - the heat & dust will make a mess out of the tape, and the glue will leach out to everything the tape touches. I used tape and when I had to remove some cables from the back, my god the sticky mess was hard to believe.
Hey Kushagranayyar, thanks for dropping by! I'll be sure to avoid using electrical tape in the future since I plan to do this project again at some point. Any recommendations on what type of tape would work best?
Wondeful tutorial! I have ordered using your links and plan to get it set up when the parts make it here later today. I received a note directly from BTF-LIGHTING telling me that the 12v power cable is too strong and I need to use a 5v power cable. Is that accurate? Here's a portion of the message: "The DC12V8A power supply cannot work with your DC5V WS2812 RGB LED strip, otherwise, the DC5V LED strip will be damaged. For the DC5V LED strip, you should use the DC5V power supply. You can use the DC5V10A power supply to power your one roll of DC5V 16.4FT WS2812 RGB LED strip."
Thanks for sharing your build! Looks really nice. Do you know if that capture card will still output 4k to the TV if you have a 4k input like a fire TV? Amazons description of the device makes it seem like it will only output 1080p to the TV.
Hey sgtnuggets, thanks for stopping by! It looks like the one I used takes in 4k input but outputs only in 1080p. There are capture cards that do 4k30fps, which will be okay for a 4k Firestick. Alternatively, you have the option to get a 4k HDMI splitter and run one output to the capture card and the other output straight to your TV.
Hey Lukogs, you're technically correct - the title of my video does say "glow up for my TV" but really the input source for the LEDs comes from whatever device is connected via HDMI to the capture card. I'm not sure if there are any DIY dynamic LED backlight solutions if you're using built-in apps on your smart tv. The only thing I can think of that would work is a kit that uses a camera to capture the video.
@@bhimmeup As stated, most of the videos are just HDMI videos in the name of diy ambient light. The only available current solution is to use the camera to read colour. But..... I also thought of splitting the ribbon cable that carry visual data to the TV screen from motherboard, in that way the Arduino/raspberry/whatever can read those colour data and transfer to the LEDs; this need someone with brains to do.
Your goal is to get a more accurate colour representation onto the LEDs by reading the actual colour values? The HDMI signal will contain that data too, no? As long as the software can convert it in the same way if you were to get the visual signal from the TV's motherboard? This is well above my pay grade unfortunately, LOL. But I would be interested to see if you're able to come up with something. The only other way I see this happening is if TV manufacturers have an in-house app, or someone develops an app specifically for ambient lighting. The LED strip itself will be plugged into the USB port and lighting managed that way.
There is a fork of Hyperion for 4K HDR output and improved led color saturation called HyperHDR. I am using it with a 4K Elgato capture card on a 85 inch TV in my living room. It was cheaper than buying a Philips Hue setup, I also get all the same HDR functionality and audio outputs as the Philips. Another suggestion is Hyperion and HyperHDR can be automated with Home Assistant if you are using it. You can setup some interesting automations with it for notifications. I have mine start blinking blue if my laundry is done and it won't stop until I remove my clothes from the washer or dryer.
Hey afcragg, thanks for the awesome tips! I know a lot of people are using 4k panels so great info for them. I, personally, am going to look into the automation part with Home Assistant.
Great effort and all. Now you can just buy a Govee Sync box 2 and you're done.
Hey AeroUNO1. Yeah I know it's easier to just buy a kit but building it gave me a sense of pride and accomplishment and an opportunity to impress my wife 😄
Excellent video, i might just try it out if the price is justifiable
just 1 recommendation - DO NOT use electrical tape on the back of your tv - the heat & dust will make a mess out of the tape, and the glue will leach out to everything the tape touches.
I used tape and when I had to remove some cables from the back, my god the sticky mess was hard to believe.
Hey Kushagranayyar, thanks for dropping by! I'll be sure to avoid using electrical tape in the future since I plan to do this project again at some point. Any recommendations on what type of tape would work best?
Confirmo, me paso lo mismo en in monitor, no importa cuantas veces le volviera a poner cinta siempre se despegaba y dejaba una capa de pegamento :/
Wondeful tutorial! I have ordered using your links and plan to get it set up when the parts make it here later today.
I received a note directly from BTF-LIGHTING telling me that the 12v power cable is too strong and I need to use a 5v power cable. Is that accurate?
Here's a portion of the message:
"The DC12V8A power supply cannot work with your DC5V WS2812 RGB LED strip, otherwise, the DC5V LED strip will be damaged.
For the DC5V LED strip, you should use the DC5V power supply.
You can use the DC5V10A power supply to power your one roll of DC5V 16.4FT WS2812 RGB LED strip."
Thanks for sharing your build! Looks really nice. Do you know if that capture card will still output 4k to the TV if you have a 4k input like a fire TV? Amazons description of the device makes it seem like it will only output 1080p to the TV.
Hey sgtnuggets, thanks for stopping by!
It looks like the one I used takes in 4k input but outputs only in 1080p.
There are capture cards that do 4k30fps, which will be okay for a 4k Firestick.
Alternatively, you have the option to get a 4k HDMI splitter and run one output to the capture card and the other output straight to your TV.
So this is not for TV but the amazon stick and the xbox or whichever thing that uses TV as monitor?
Hey Lukogs, you're technically correct -
the title of my video does say "glow up for my TV" but really the input source for the LEDs comes from whatever device is connected via HDMI to the capture card.
I'm not sure if there are any DIY dynamic LED backlight solutions if you're using built-in apps on your smart tv. The only thing I can think of that would work is a kit that uses a camera to capture the video.
@@bhimmeup As stated, most of the videos are just HDMI videos in the name of diy ambient light. The only available current solution is to use the camera to read colour.
But..... I also thought of splitting the ribbon cable that carry visual data to the TV screen from motherboard, in that way the Arduino/raspberry/whatever can read those colour data and transfer to the LEDs; this need someone with brains to do.
Your goal is to get a more accurate colour representation onto the LEDs by reading the actual colour values? The HDMI signal will contain that data too, no? As long as the software can convert it in the same way if you were to get the visual signal from the TV's motherboard?
This is well above my pay grade unfortunately, LOL. But I would be interested to see if you're able to come up with something.
The only other way I see this happening is if TV manufacturers have an in-house app, or someone develops an app specifically for ambient lighting. The LED strip itself will be plugged into the USB port and lighting managed that way.