The Ultimate Simracing Upgrade: Complete HUE Ambient Lighting Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2023
- Welcome to my COMPLETE guide on setting up the Philips HUE ambient lighting system for your racing simulator! This will cover everything you need and exactly how to set it up to mimic my setup!
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Dude that settup is INSANE!
Thanks mate! Any questions let me know
Great job! one of the best guides I’ve seen on this, its motivated me to get my hue lights finally setup again this weekend.
Thanks for watching mate! Best of luck with it let me know if you get stuck 👍
well did you?
Thank you for this great video. Very clear and to the point.
Hey mate thank you for watching! I’m glad you liked it and if you get stuck at all just leave me a comment here so we can sort it out 😃
Thank you for sharing the detail setup. !
It’s my pleasure mave! Thanks so much for watching😃
I love it!
Thanks for the breakdown, I am def adding these to the rig!
Thanks for watching mate! If you get stuck or anything just leave me a message here or in our discord and we can sort it out 😃
@@alexkayracing
You're more than welcome. I haven't joined the discord but will do that this evening.
Without doubt the best video of how to setup for HUE lights I have seen. Clear, simple and it WORKS. Brilliant. Thank you. Question. What "colour" settting do you do for the lights? are they 100% bright white or do you use colour etc?
Hey mate thanks so much for watching! When you use light sync on your PC it completely takes control of the colour and behaviour of your lights. You can however raise or lower over brightness of the effect with the slider in the PC app, in case the lights are too bright or dim for your taste
Very informative, keep it up. 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks bro hope it helps!🔥
7:33 Monaco is also fantastic at the tunnel for this! I prefer the strips - the gradient strips in particular but those are incredibly expensive. The strips are very effective though.
great tutorial. Hue can do SO MUCH.
Thanks for watching mate glad you enjoyed it! Yeah the problem with the strips is they can be VERY bright and hard to manipulate what direction the light is shining in. How do you have your strips mounted?
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great tutorial 😊 subbed 👍🏻
Thanks Dave I’m glad it could help you! Be sure to check out our new LMDH rig tour if you haven’t yet and let me know what you think?
Thanks very much. This helped me so much
Hey mate good to hear! Best of luck with your racing z😃
Such a great tutorial - now I just need to spend more money on hue lights haha
2 lights should be enough for most setups mate! I need more cos obviously we do GoPro footage. But just for the immersion while driving, 2 in a dark room is more than enough 👍
thx for the tutorial...setup 2 lights yesterday....and man....that app and the light placing is real pita
Thanks for watching mate! Im glad this guide helped you 🔥
Well done!!
Thanks Daniel was it easy to follow bro?
@@alexkayracing yes man I was going to create something similar because the instructions on how to do this properly are very vague. You’ve hit this guide extremely well!
@@KiliansCreative fantastic man! Yeah I know no one’s really hit the nail on the head with the HUE lights guide, hopefully this helps a lot of people 😃
Awesome video! Thank you very much!
I had the HUE lights mainly for night driving but recently switched to UV LEDs for illuminating my wheel buttons and now the HUE lights are setup for daytime driving. It works GREAT! I don't like that you have to switch back and forth for day and night. Can it be in one setup/configuration?
You can probably try to use the daytime configuration during the night and see if it works for you. I always found that the daytime version doesn’t pick up the lights in the night so well. Have a play with it and see how it goes for you!
Hey Alex, super grateful for you posting this! I was one of the guys on r/simracing badgering you for this video! So thanks again for taking the time to make it. I had a quick question if you wouldn't mind: I see that you have borders/shades on your Hue lights. I just wanted to ask what was your rationale behind that particular choice. Is it to help diffuse the light and have it not shining directly into your eyes?
For context, I have the long outdoor Hue strip (the one that Boosted Media recommended) as well as two Hue play bars (that I'm still trying to ideally position, right now I have them mounted behind me, but am considering moving them.) The strip is pretty bright above me (mounted along the perimeter of my small race room) but I've noticed that it can be a little distracting to have the lights directly in my view. I'm wondering if I should attempt to find a way to diffuse/shade the lighting myself.
Hey mate thanks for watching!
They are blinkers, I use them to stop the hue lights shining light onto the monitors, which causes glare. The blinkers prevent this.
Personally I am not a fan of the Hue Strip, it’s long, cumbersome and hard to manipulate it’s light.
The hue play bars give you the ability to pinpoint where you want the light to shine, they just end up being more expensive if you buy multiple sets is all.
I would say try how I’ve done it and let me know if it works better for you. Always remember that less is more. Too much bright light and it feels fake, you just want that slight indication/feeling of light, that’s what causes the immersion.
@@alexkayracing Thanks for the reply! Yes, if I had to do this over I'd probably skip the light strip and just go for a series of bars and bulbs. But I shall persevere!
nice video bro!
You were asking me for this one for a while 😃 glad I could finally help man👍
@@alexkayracing
My next project is building a center console for my rig
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thx man
No problem mate hope it helps! Let me know if you have any issues 👍
Also a shameless plug. I've got a couple of the Hue light bar arm mounts for sale in Melbourne, Australia. I've since mounted my lights to the ceiling as my sim racing den allows for it quite easily. Anyone local that wants to grab a pair of them just let me know and we can work something out. They are pretty much the same ones you see in the video.
That’s very kind of you mate thanks for offering that 🔥
@anthcesana I’m interested. Also in Australia and would happily pay for postage. How can I get in touch? TIA
Thanks for this! Just setting up my new hue play bars now. Is there any reason you don't use manual capture area for the daytime?
Hey mate thanks for watching! I found that placing it in the area I did worked much better than when using a manual capture area in the day time.
Manual capture actually behaves very erratically for example even if you set the capture area to the dash of your car, when you drive next to a rumble strip or grass it will take the green and red colours from those it’s very unreliable.
Just remember that the height of where you set the little dots in the app will depend on your FOV and what seating height you’re using in game, you might have to move them slightly up or down.
Excellent and actionable video! What button boxes are those on your rig?
Hey mate thanks for watching! They are both from a company called simracing4u , very affordable!
@@alexkayracing TYVM!
No problem at all :)
Great video! It’s ridiculous how bad the Hue app is for precisely placing the lights.
Tell me about it mate it’s so frustrating 😂 we could make it look so much better if they just gave us a virtual screen to choose exactly where we want it
I'm looking forward to having these hue lights in my racing setup when it arrives. Should be any day now right.. right?
You didn’t send me the 20 bux for our rig yet mate so I can’t post it to you till then 😂😂
Now back to spa practice for you alez
2:16 here I come 😂
This is perfect timing...Been doing the sim racing POV content for nearly 10 years and was looking for the next improvement to the rig. I actually bought the Philips Hue Play bars and bridge yesterday which is arriving tomorrow and found this an incredibly well laid out video which will no doubt help tomorrow. Question, the one area that has always frustrated me is trying to get the 4k gopro helmet POV crispy and clear. After all these years Ive tried pretty much everything but have yet not been happy with my outcomes. Ive tried various ISO, framerates, stabilisation, horizon levelling tips for low light shooting, but my footage is never as clear as others and also yours. Would you be able to provide some details on your GoPro settings please or point me in the direction of a good source of information? Your footage is what I've been after for many many years but never come anywhere close. I have pretty good lighting in my rig, Elgato lights, diffused LEDs etc but nothing seems to help my Hero Black 11 in Low Light. Thanks for the video, excellent, subbed as I love seeing others share their racing passion.
Hey tony thanks for watching mate! I took a look at one of your latest POV videos and the quality looked fine! Do you have any lights above you?
@@alexkayracing I do, I have an Elgato Key Light directly above the rig. Latest video was more a test getting back into the rig...I've not really been doing much sim racing the last few months, burnt myself out, so that one was more of a test as new AC mods, updates etc have arrived. I hate plugging my own channel, the rig isnt anything compared to yours, i've not really done much to it over the last few years but it's in desperate need of some love. I do have a rig guide give you an idea of the lighting, tomorrow I'll be popping the Philips Hue Play bars on either side of the hood. Will start with 2 and see how we go.
What settings are you using on the GoPro my friend?
well,this is one of the most tempermental things ever trying to get the posistions correct. Why on earth the hue lights think they should be blue in the middle of the day is beyond me. Not having much joy here i'll be honest, easy to setup, but a pain in the rear end to get the positiong correct.
@@TonyTurbo78 hi mate did you try changing the later position in the entertainment area slightly ?
@alexkayracing hey buddy, yeah I've tried moving both the lights height position in the app from the bottom to the very top, I'm just not getting accurate colour representation and even correct dimming when going through shadows cast on the track. It seems the window for the correct position of picking up the light change on the top of dashboard is so small. It would be so much easier if the ap just asked you to click a precise point you want rhe play bars to pick up. I also tried capturing an area of the screen with the bottom of the dotted box at the very area I wanted to the to be triggered on and then moved my left and right positions in the app to the bottom of the TV but it still just doesn't pick up correct colours. Using ACC and Monza at 7am was a good test, but for some reason, the lights were mainly blue or green and not bright yellow or orange coming out of the shadows into the sun. It's weird mate. And another thing I found happening is the lights would pick up on the glow from the RPM dial on the dash when getting into redline territory. Even moving the positions of the left and right play bars on the app to be slightly away from the center hasn't really worked. Not had much luck so far but will persevere today.
Are you using nvidia surround for the triples or without? I'm wondering if this would change where you'd need to put the little positions on the app, although it really shouldn't as the screen sections should be exactly the same.
Superb, I am actually hesitating to purchass on of these..... Its a little bit pricy tho.
They can be very pricey yes bro, but honestly for most people; two hue lights above you is more than enough. My 4 light setup is a bit of overkill
Hey Alex, thanks for the video mate. I've always wondered how other people are setting up their Hue lights. We've spoken about this before, but now I have a chance to try all your settings as mine are pretty different in the way the phone app lights are positioned as well as using the Video function rather than Game. A couple of questions:
1. In the day time capture, do you use the calibration box at all? It's not shown in the video, so I wonder if this was either left out or are the position of the bars in the phone app responsible for all light capture?
2. The idea of setting a static light for the in car UV light is brilliant! I love that. How do we select only one Hue light bar to sync, while leaving the other one static? I've never even thought of this let alone try it.
3. What's the purpose of the screen capture within the sim and making it the wallpaper? Do you use the calibration box on that wallpaper? From experience this can be done while you're in the sim, eliminating an unnecessary step. However, it's a great tip for some of the games that don't actually allow the capture box to work within the game, so another good idea there!
I'm going to give these settings a crack now, nice work!
Hey mate thanks for watching! Okay so:
1. In day time we don’t use the capture box, the calibration done for the lights on the phone app should get you the result that you need!
2. You can make multiple entertainment areas in the phone app (unlimited I believe). So you make a new entertainment area and only have one light selected for it.
That way when you turn on the light sync (make sure you have that entertainment area selected, not your daytime one), only the one light will be synced, and the rest are free to do whatever you want with them!
3. As mentioned in the video, we use the screenshot so that we can know exactly where to drag our manual capture box so that the part of the dash covered in light (at night time) is located at the bottom of the box! You can obviously change your wallpaper back after doing this, but you might need to do it again when using a different car etc because the light touches the dash of each car differently at times!
Best of luck mate hope this answers everything for you 😃
@@alexkayracing Thanks for the reply dude. Confirmed what I thought was happening in the video. Definitely will give it all a go properly.
@@anthcesana anytime mate! Let me know how you go 😄
@@alexkayracing used the daytime setting in iracing last night, seemed to work pretty natural. Liking it so far.
@@anthcesana well done mate 🔥🔥🔥
Hi Alex, great video. I wanted to ask if the height, tilt and distance of the lights from the screen are important. Some people say you can get reflection if the lights are too close to screen. Appreciate any advice.
Hey thanks for watching! I believe my lights are about 50cm above my head. Angle can be important but if you get reflection on your screens don’t stress. Get some thick black paper like I did and stick them onto the lights to create “blinders” that will remove the reflections/glare. Hope this helps!
@@alexkayracing excellent, thanks for the tip Alex! 🙏👍
@@suziec7542 no problem best of luck! Any other questions just let me know
Hi Alex, I got the lights all set up. I’m just waiting for the stands to arrive but it’s all working perfectly. Thank you so much for the video it really helped a lot.
@@suziec7542 my pleasure! happy sim racing!
Nice video, may I ask what Porsche dash you were using on your wheel? minute 0.21
Hey bro I’ll get a link for you! Thanks for watching 😃
@@alexkayracing most welcome, thank you😊😊
@@FlavioCadamuro here you go bro, if you want to make it look like mine. Edit it in sim hub and remove the LED circles, and make the Porsche sign a bit bigger. Then it will look just like mine 😃 www.racedepartment.com/downloads/simhub-dashboard-porsche-911-991-2-gt3-r-2019.39975/
@@alexkayracing thank you!!!
Where do you place your camera for recording and what type of camera do you use? Thanks in advance
It’s a GoPro 11 on my forehead mate 👍
@@alexkayracing thanks once again! I love the channel, thank you for sharing your ideas and knowledge, very helpful!
@@TNel1SimRacing my pleasure mate best of luck 🔥
where did you buy the red side nets from OMP???
Hey bro they are custom made! Check out “Make Simdash Info” on Facebook that’s his business page he’s from France 👍
Do you know if you could use these lights to show flags in game? Yellow, green, white, blue etc.?
I would say no unfortunately mate as they use the Philips software which only takes the information that’s on screen and not telemetry data.
You would save a lot more money getting one of those LED flag indicators and running it through simhub :)
It seems like it's working with the one Play Lightbar I have. But the problem is or let's say not the problem, but Idk, if it's supposed to do that, is the fact, that when I press Start Synchronisation, it works fine. But if I stop it, the play Lightbar is set to the last colour and brightness. Is that supposed to happen? Or is a setting wrong, which I need to change?
That’s normal when you turn off light sync! Whatever colour it was when you turn it off it will stay like that, and then use whatever brightness setting you have it turned on to
@@alexkayracing So it seems like I have to run Light sync the whole time I'm driving? Thanks for the answer, that's it, what I wanna know
@@lorenz7550 yes usually I always turn it on before I open the sim. Then turn off when I’m finished 👍
My HUE wont remember the screen area. Is it normal that i have to capture it every time, or is there a fix for this? :)
For day time or night time? The entertainment area should be saved on the app and won’t change where it picks the light up unless you change it in the app
@@alexkayracing the captured area on screen, it always reverts back to full screen and not the captured area i cut out in the windows app :-)
@@Rene_Booh you mean for night time configuration? Yeah you need to do it everytime if you plan to drive in the night time. But to be honest most of the time I just use the blue lights and don’t use the hue sync and it looks fine :)
QUESTION OF THE DAY! What’s your favourite track conditions to race in? Let me know!
night races can be a really fun challenge and really immersive with all the lights off in my room
@@simracingden have you tried them in ACC, it’s so scary when you have damage your lights are flickering when you brake 😂
If you dont have a phone stylus, i recommend using a hot dog
AHAHA or a frying pan😂😂
I use 4 Light Bars like yours. I find assigning the capture area so frustrating. Why not just make it larger. But whatever
Thanks for watching mate. The problem with making it too big is that the lights will start to pick up unwanted colours like the grass or red barriers when you drive next to them!
@@alexkayracing ya, I understand that concept. I am referring to the space or virtual screen on the app GUI should be bigger so we can place lights easier (if that makes sense). Informative video though. I ma going to experiment with light placement of two lights from the side, and make some shrouds for them
@@rtimmins7212 OH sorry I misunderstood! Yeah the layout of that app is horrible. It should be doable on the pc I stand and you should just be able to put on the screen exactly where you want each light to face. Hopefully in the future they’ll add this feature
Incredible video. Do you have an email or discord I could contact you on for further help/info?
Thanks for watching mate! Yep our discord is discord.gg/qg9hKZxbuF
I am very frequent on there!
@@alexkayracing thank you very much mate! I’ll hit you up later :)