I want to note that if you plan on using multiple power supplies you should NOT wire the positive wires together. In other words, if you're using 2 strips you'll connect one power supply to each strip but you don't connect the positive wires on the same circuit. You should wire all of the ground wires together.
It seems alot more complicated than it is. I've just done it on my pc using a rpi and capture card and on my tv using ethernet to transmit the info to the pi to output on the leds
if there's a YT reward for best tutorial ever done, u sir get my vote. I don't ever plan on doing this and i don't even know why i ended up on this video/channel but i watched the entire thing from start to finish.
Best video out there explaining the WHOLE process. Tried this almost a year ago and didnt get it to work properly. Pretty sure this detailed video will get me to the promised land.
I'm in the middle of this project getting the required items and happen to go to Walmart and see a HDMI splitter by ONN. It's 4K and does HDR. I decided to try it out and it works. For just $30. Just a heads up in case people doesn't want to spend the $130 for the Gaming splitter on Amazon. Great video, you've made it so simple so far!
As soon as I started watching this I was worried about HDCP and CEC the fact you covered all this early on and even mentioned HDFury means you know what you're talking about. Have my follow fellow AV guy.
Wow what an amazing tutorial. Sadly it also confirmed I'll never do this. I would totally be able to thanks to the tutorial but it also showed me the amount of work and time needed and that I simply can't do. So thank you for a great tutorial and putting this to rest for me :). Such a relief!
I watched this from start to end. I have not seen a tutorial like this ever on RUclips. The quality. I think I could have put it on mute and i still would have understood. Liked, and subscribed.
I've been planning this project for awhile now, and as an individually-addressable LED, Raspberry Pi nerd - had definitely settled on the DIY approach. I've watched several tutorials, and this is hands-down the definitive source of accurate and detailed information. Total bonus when I learned that Hyperion supports WLED - so I'm driving my strip with a Dig-Uno controller w/ WLED. This gives me a two-for-one setup allowing the maximum number of effects, as well as Home Assistant integration. After much planning and research, finally pulled the trigger and ordered all my parts: Could quite cough up the $$$ for the Diva, so settled on the Prophecy. Already missing the CEC functionality -- just means I'm going to need to up my Home Assistant automation game to overcome the the loss. Not sure I'm getting 4K@120Hz through the setup -- but could be a PS5 thing. :) Thanks for the great content and insight! I couldn't be happier with the results! Any thoughts on using an HDMI switch as an input - so that I can share the setup between PS5 and AppleTV?
Wow this is the most in-depth and well thought out tutorial I think I have watched for anything. I do not have an understanding of TV's and video standards and have been looking into doing this. Watching other tutorials and (through no fault of the other tutorials, it is because of my base understanding) I thought it was outside of my ability. After watching this one I'm now sure I can. Thank you.
Thank you sooo much from France. It still help in 2024❤ I can't imagine how much time it takes to you to grab all these information, put them together, make sure their a accurate, summary and bring it Il live in vulgarisation video! Love your antousiasm where sharing ❤
Since no one mentioned it, 5:32 on HDMI splitter. You don't need to buy a special splitter for HDR tone mapping. Hyperion has a fork (version) called HyperHDR and this is a software based HDR mapping. This means, if CEC is important to you (it was to me), get a splitter that does support CEC (exp. EZCOO has these), and let HyperHDR do the rest.
Everyone keeps saying "it's too much work. I would rather get the Govee or Hue instead." Sadly, they only go up to 75" or 85" (100" is the highest I've seen). Most projector screens start around 100". So if you are doing 150" screen, there aren't many alternative options. Great stuff @Chris. I plan on attempting this in the very near future!
Great video, detail is great. LED around my screen isn't really my thing but fantastic job explaining how to. And here we all thought you just sat around watching TV :-)
WoW!! I wanted this sort of lighting for the back of my projector screen, but after watching the full tutorial and your "Majestic" direction. ;) i thought there would be No way I am Capable of playing with all the I.T Stuff. But you did a Fantastic job!
Make the bottom strip the last one in the chain, and start from the bottom right side if you are looking at the back of the TV. This will give you the option of removing the bottom led strip if you have cables you want to hide, or if you install a center channel in the future. I learned this the hard way, but luckily it was on a monitor that was easy to reach behind.
That is an absolute masterpiece tutorial. Just my opinion... that's alot of work for a setup alittle quicker and brighter than hue or govee but is less compatible with tv streaming.
Hey I’m a little late to the party but about this issue at 7:13 there is a fork from Hyperion called HyperHDR that addressing this problem with washed out colors on HDR content Also awesome video I’m currently sourcing every part for this project myself and I’m hyped
Finally completed this with success .. went with the gofanco and hdmi capture you suggested .. but instead used digi quad and WLED instead of GPIO pin on the pi .. works amazing but I should have went with 300 per instead of 150.. may change it later .. paired with the hisence laser tv I bought after ur review .. appreciate everything you do man
Oh forgot to mention I have the hisense and WLED in home assistant so when the hisense reports playing node red turns on the led other wise it turns it off
GREAT COMPLETE tutorial BUT I have important question would the splitter pass trough HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos? Because of it screws that up, that won't work for most enthusiast setups? And a smaller question, would it work on Raspberry ZERO W?
If I'm not mistaken, having the resistor on the data IN would have probably prevented you from needing the logic board. If the logic board just "cleans up" the signal, the resistor would have done the same job for less $$. Great tutorial though!
I mean…it looks REALLY good. But, by the end I was calculating how much I make an hour vs the number of hours it would take me to get this right and I think it might technically cost me more money than the Hue setup 😂
Don't get Hue, get Govee instead and hide the camera under the TV with some décor. Phillips hue is the worst of the 3 options since it's the most expensive and delivers the worst result.
Brittany i literally pictured you programming your rasberry pi arduino and configuring Hyperion for your Ws281x controller, while troubleshooting voltage drop. Don't forget to connect the wire from GPIO18 to channel 1 on the 3.3v side.
The result is amazing. The tutorial is excellent - probably good enough that I might actually be able to make this work even though this is wellll beyond me. Unfortunately it does seem like A LOT of work, and (more importantly) too many potential problems that I won't be able to resolve for me to throw my time and hundreds of dollars at this.
Great tutorial, plus the written version! I remember trying this about 10 years ago, was great..when it worked. Looks like the software has come a long way since then, maybe time to try again!
It's not that hard especially with Chris tutorial. He covered most of the stuff I got wrong the first time using Google. The only thing I would suggest is to start from the left side of the TV and leave the bottom LED for last. This will let you take it off in the future if you don't want to light up cables or the TV stand.
amazing setup, really great video. i do think that after seeing that you need to buy a ton of equipment (some of it pretty expensive), the complexity of setting it up, and then you might get flicker which you have to buy (and hand solder) another piece to fix, and you might get lag... most people are going to just get a govee. i get that it isn't quite as good but it's plug and play. and until someone can make this plug and play (or substantially easier), i just don't think many will do this.
Amazing tutorial ! But I got three words '' Goove immersion kit " the latency on the lights has about a half of a second but it is extremely easy to install and it works just fine. I think if you're not working for a tech company or anything of that matter that involves all the skill that you have in this field, I'm going to tell you right now that you should be looking into it because they are a lot of places that will pay you to install these devices specially since Goove only supports TVs from 55 to 65 inches, and your method seems like it could fit anything bigger than that.
This is probably the only tutorial that places the lights all the way to the TVs edge giving the best effects 🤷🏻♂️ most put the lights on the flat back part of the TV then if u hang the TV the effect is ok at best nice job 👍🏼✌🏼
HDMI CEC works as a bus so it is simply a connected wire between pin 13 of all HDMI connections. All inputs and outputs pin 13 shares the same exact line. you can simply do a continuity test on your device's input and output HDMI ports' pin 13 and all should be connected to each other.
Thanks so much for making this video! I did this project last year using a separate tutorial and eventually unplugged it from my PS5 because HDR was not working (once you see it you can't go back). I had one of the cheap splitters but I'll use your recommendation to buy the gofanco splitter.
Great tutorial I've been running prismatik on windows for pc gaming for years now, might have to give this a shot with living room TV anyways thanks for all the detailed information keep up the great work.
The best explanation I've ever found! Really appreciate your hard work! I've got 1 question related to sharing one ground between led strip and PI4. Does it apply to WS2815 12V as well? Best regards!
I will admit it's a lot of work but the juice is worth the squeeze. Would you consider putting the kits together if I provided you the size details and shipping it. With full payment of course? 🤟😁
Hi Chris, Nice video. I am doing with the WS2815. it powered up and all LED is lid up. Only issue I have is Hyperion don't see the LED. seem like the DATA line doesn't work. I'm connecting it through the GPIO 18. Any Help?
You spoke clearly video was very detailed and clear step by step instructions ..yet my brain 🧠 process it like Charlie Browns teacher talking going to call around see if I buy the parts can some one do all the rest thanks for the video 👍
Kickass tut!! Question: From the video it looks like you are putting the light strips behind your UST PJ screen of 100-120". As such, I'm assuming you had to use about 25+ ft of led strips and it looks like you used a single power supply (assuming 5v ~40A) . 1) Did you take two long led strips and solder them together on all 3 solder points (power and data) to make one really long strip? 2) For power injection in the middle of the strip, Did you then solder the secondary power wires somewhere near that solder point and then connect to the single PSU? 3) Did you power the second strip on the far end as well? Thus 3 total power connections or do you just have 2 power points (beginning and middle)? 4) Do you have a wiring diagram you could share?
I had the DreamScreen 4K prior to switching over to Phillips Hue for the living room tv. This was a fantastic tutorial. I’ll definitely go this route with my desktop setup.
Can you make a video on how to install Hyperion on BigSur MacOS as I am not able to get it working and not able to find any tutorials. Also this should be with out any external hardware device such as HDMI splitter. Just LED, Node MCU and MACOS
Chris Majestic So if I don't want 4K HDR, as my tv doesn't support it, then I am good to go with HDMI Capture Card with Loop, right..? The HDCP won't be causing any problem for that...?
Great tutorial! One question, Chris: does this backligting kit works for 135" screens or it's max is 120"? I went to the website of Lytmi and found the kit up to only 120". Happy New Year!
HyperHDR (a Fork of Hyperion) allows for software sided HDR to SDR Tone-Mapping so you can choose a cheaper HDMI Splitter it still should support HDCP 2.2 otherwise you’ll lose Ambilight on protected content like Netflix
the resolution number you're changing. Is this the output resolution that your TV will display video at? Im hoping not as those low resolutions would not make for very watchable content.
In the diagram with the logic level converter, does this still assume the pi being powered via USB? Also, the resistor and capacitor links in description both go to the resistor. Thanks for the great video!
Great video but I don't get your amperage calculations at all. I was taught total amps = watts/volts and in more than 20 years of commercial and residential lighting sales including specialty LED lighting I've yet to ever encounter any scenario involving LED strips that came anywhere close to a 18A draw and that is low voltage systems inside and outdoors with plenty of long runs and voltage drop to account for. Maybe 1 or 1.5A tops. A huge power supply seems completely counter intuitive so just curious how you came to that formula of 0.06*NumberOfLeds?
Thanks for this awesome video. Got some of the parts and am going to dive in tonight. I understand most of it, but how do you split the ground wire into two separate wires to create the common ground? Do I strip the ground wire and separate the wire fibers into two different wires? Could I use the extra ground wire that is already on the LED strip to connect to the pi? Couldn't find any info online. Thanks!
Hi, Great video. Does the ambilight work if contents are played on apps like kodi, netflix, etc installed on the TV? And is it possible to install Kodi on the same rpi with Hyperion on it..?
I understand the LEDs and Pi will require an external power supply, BUT why not use the video signal from TV USB port to feed the Pi to take advantage of the TV applications (most of what I watch) and not just the external video sources (only DVD player in my case). I have seen this might be possible on "5 great uses of your TV's USB port by Dignited": "The USB port on the TV also allows you to connect accessories to beautify the TV and its surrounding environment and enhance the user’s viewing experience. Also, 8K TVs from manufacturers such as Samsung (this is what I have) and LG have a sports ambient light function, and you can also purchase third-party TV lights that can be connected to the TV via a USB port".
Great work keep it up brother 👍🏽, first info I actually found was on the logic converter though you mentioned you didn't find any when looking to do my project your video was the second I saw the first had info on it quick question how many LEDs on your projection setup I'm having an issue where I can't run more than 490 and I need 504 on my 120 inch screen
I want to note that if you plan on using multiple power supplies you should NOT wire the positive wires together. In other words, if you're using 2 strips you'll connect one power supply to each strip but you don't connect the positive wires on the same circuit. You should wire all of the ground wires together.
This that helps alot. Thank you loads for your time. Can't wait. But looks like it's the 400dollor box gurrr
Do I still need the splitter if use a receiver with 2 HDMI outputs
@@ajaltonwilliams1986 good question
Chris have you used the hyperhdr software? If so are you able to use a different capture card?
thats what i thought while watching your vid...
I don't know if I'll ever gather the will and the courage to try this, but this was a hell of a tutorial. Great job man.
this is much easier and cheaper ;) ruclips.net/video/32lxvs7qkSs/видео.html
Same here bro still watching full video
It seems alot more complicated than it is. I've just done it on my pc using a rpi and capture card and on my tv using ethernet to transmit the info to the pi to output on the leds
It is actually pretty easy and straight forward
@@GeddixNzhow did you get your tv to output video over ethernet
if there's a YT reward for best tutorial ever done, u sir get my vote. I don't ever plan on doing this and i don't even know why i ended up on this video/channel but i watched the entire thing from start to finish.
Best video out there explaining the WHOLE process. Tried this almost a year ago and didnt get it to work properly. Pretty sure this detailed video will get me to the promised land.
The main reason people has issue getting it to work is hyperion needs root permissions and it's doesn't have it from stock. You need to give it sudo
I've watched it three times and I'm still processing all the information and requirements to build this. Wow, incredible work.
This is a very detailed tutorial. I haven't seen anything on the internet that explains ambient lighting this well. Great job!
I'm in the middle of this project getting the required items and happen to go to Walmart and see a HDMI splitter by ONN. It's 4K and does HDR. I decided to try it out and it works. For just $30. Just a heads up in case people doesn't want to spend the $130 for the Gaming splitter on Amazon. Great video, you've made it so simple so far!
This tutorial is amazingly detailed, helpful, and high quality. I never do projects like this, but, now I feel motivated to do it!
One of the best Hyperion Tutorials so far! Greetings TPmodding from Hyperion-Team
Must have spent a hella time at MicroCenter on this. Appreciate you!
As soon as I started watching this I was worried about HDCP and CEC the fact you covered all this early on and even mentioned HDFury means you know what you're talking about. Have my follow fellow AV guy.
Wow what an amazing tutorial. Sadly it also confirmed I'll never do this. I would totally be able to thanks to the tutorial but it also showed me the amount of work and time needed and that I simply can't do. So thank you for a great tutorial and putting this to rest for me :). Such a relief!
I watched this from start to end. I have not seen a tutorial like this ever on RUclips. The quality. I think I could have put it on mute and i still would have understood. Liked, and subscribed.
I've been planning this project for awhile now, and as an individually-addressable LED, Raspberry Pi nerd - had definitely settled on the DIY approach. I've watched several tutorials, and this is hands-down the definitive source of accurate and detailed information. Total bonus when I learned that Hyperion supports WLED - so I'm driving my strip with a Dig-Uno controller w/ WLED. This gives me a two-for-one setup allowing the maximum number of effects, as well as Home Assistant integration.
After much planning and research, finally pulled the trigger and ordered all my parts: Could quite cough up the $$$ for the Diva, so settled on the Prophecy. Already missing the CEC functionality -- just means I'm going to need to up my Home Assistant automation game to overcome the the loss. Not sure I'm getting 4K@120Hz through the setup -- but could be a PS5 thing. :)
Thanks for the great content and insight! I couldn't be happier with the results!
Any thoughts on using an HDMI switch as an input - so that I can share the setup between PS5 and AppleTV?
Wow this is the most in-depth and well thought out tutorial I think I have watched for anything. I do not have an understanding of TV's and video standards and have been looking into doing this. Watching other tutorials and (through no fault of the other tutorials, it is because of my base understanding) I thought it was outside of my ability. After watching this one I'm now sure I can. Thank you.
This is an INCREDIBLE tutorial and you just showed me something I didn't even know I needed.
Thank you sooo much from France.
It still help in 2024❤
I can't imagine how much time it takes to you to grab all these information, put them together, make sure their a accurate, summary and bring it Il live in vulgarisation video!
Love your antousiasm where sharing ❤
Since no one mentioned it, 5:32 on HDMI splitter. You don't need to buy a special splitter for HDR tone mapping. Hyperion has a fork (version) called HyperHDR and this is a software based HDR mapping. This means, if CEC is important to you (it was to me), get a splitter that does support CEC (exp. EZCOO has these), and let HyperHDR do the rest.
Interesting. Thanks for the info!!
The prophecy Splitter is sold out, is there an alternative around the same price? Thanks!
Everyone keeps saying "it's too much work. I would rather get the Govee or Hue instead." Sadly, they only go up to 75" or 85" (100" is the highest I've seen). Most projector screens start around 100". So if you are doing 150" screen, there aren't many alternative options. Great stuff @Chris. I plan on attempting this in the very near future!
Great video, detail is great. LED around my screen isn't really my thing but fantastic job explaining how to. And here we all thought you just sat around watching TV :-)
WoW!! I wanted this sort of lighting for the back of my projector screen, but after watching the full tutorial and your "Majestic" direction. ;) i thought there would be No way I am Capable of playing with all the I.T Stuff. But you did a Fantastic job!
wow...maximum effort for LED light strips...once u got to powering and wiring the LED light strips I started asking myself if i really want ambilight
This video earned you a subscribe man. Not many content creators can do what you can do. Keep it up
My goodness. This guy's video clarity is just 👌 WOW!
My man, I’m never going to do this but I watched the entire thing. That was awesome.
Make the bottom strip the last one in the chain, and start from the bottom right side if you are looking at the back of the TV. This will give you the option of removing the bottom led strip if you have cables you want to hide, or if you install a center channel in the future. I learned this the hard way, but luckily it was on a monitor that was easy to reach behind.
That is an absolute masterpiece tutorial. Just my opinion... that's alot of work for a setup alittle quicker and brighter than hue or govee but is less compatible with tv streaming.
my man, this is the most comprehensive tutorial i have seen. well done 👍
Hey I’m a little late to the party but about this issue at 7:13 there is a fork from Hyperion called HyperHDR that addressing this problem with washed out colors on HDR content
Also awesome video I’m currently sourcing every part for this project myself and I’m hyped
Wow you probably had 6,000 words in this video. Awesome video
Thanks!
Welcome back brother!🥇
This tutorial was a godsend. Thank you for going in-depth through the whole process. I ended up using a Hue Playbar for my light source.
Wow, that was one hell of a complete and through tutorial ... thanks brother!
Thank you, sir! This was the only video that had everything I needed to get it working! You are very smart and know how to teach very clearly.
Loads of solid information here.. awesome stuff..
Finally completed this with success .. went with the gofanco and hdmi capture you suggested .. but instead used digi quad and WLED instead of GPIO pin on the pi .. works amazing but I should have went with 300 per instead of 150.. may change it later .. paired with the hisence laser tv I bought after ur review .. appreciate everything you do man
Oh forgot to mention I have the hisense and WLED in home assistant so when the hisense reports playing node red turns on the led other wise it turns it off
GREAT COMPLETE tutorial BUT I have important question would the splitter pass trough HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos? Because of it screws that up, that won't work for most enthusiast setups?
And a smaller question, would it work on Raspberry ZERO W?
Wanna know too :)
If I'm not mistaken, having the resistor on the data IN would have probably prevented you from needing the logic board. If the logic board just "cleans up" the signal, the resistor would have done the same job for less $$. Great tutorial though!
I mean…it looks REALLY good. But, by the end I was calculating how much I make an hour vs the number of hours it would take me to get this right and I think it might technically cost me more money than the Hue setup 😂
🤣🤣 Time is money!!
That's a great life ratio 🤣
Weird flex
Don't get Hue, get Govee instead and hide the camera under the TV with some décor. Phillips hue is the worst of the 3 options since it's the most expensive and delivers the worst result.
Brittany i literally pictured you programming your rasberry pi arduino and configuring Hyperion for your Ws281x controller, while troubleshooting voltage drop. Don't forget to connect the wire from GPIO18 to channel 1 on the 3.3v side.
Fantastic tutorial. Very well done as always!
The result is amazing. The tutorial is excellent - probably good enough that I might actually be able to make this work even though this is wellll beyond me.
Unfortunately it does seem like A LOT of work, and (more importantly) too many potential problems that I won't be able to resolve for me to throw my time and hundreds of dollars at this.
Great tutorial, plus the written version! I remember trying this about 10 years ago, was great..when it worked. Looks like the software has come a long way since then, maybe time to try again!
*FFS!!!* I watched the whole video and i won't ever try this, like ever.
Good content.
Where do you learn all of this? My brain hurts from watching this video. I love it, but I understand like 60% of what just happened
He learns from many hours reading on Google and watching other videos while being extremely curious about how things works like most of us geeks do.
@@Julio860JVL that's how I started lol
😂
Computer engineering, or something similar
bruh im studying electrical engineering and my head hurts all the time
Amazingggg tutorial!! This was so detailed and it shows me that…I need to hire someone to do this cuz I AINT!!
🤣🤣🤣
It's not that hard especially with Chris tutorial. He covered most of the stuff I got wrong the first time using Google. The only thing I would suggest is to start from the left side of the TV and leave the bottom LED for last. This will let you take it off in the future if you don't want to light up cables or the TV stand.
This is SUPER COOL! Makes me want to get a TV just to experience it.
amazing setup, really great video. i do think that after seeing that you need to buy a ton of equipment (some of it pretty expensive), the complexity of setting it up, and then you might get flicker which you have to buy (and hand solder) another piece to fix, and you might get lag... most people are going to just get a govee. i get that it isn't quite as good but it's plug and play. and until someone can make this plug and play (or substantially easier), i just don't think many will do this.
Amazing tutorial ! But I got three words '' Goove immersion kit " the latency on the lights has about a half of a second but it is extremely easy to install and it works just fine. I think if you're not working for a tech company or anything of that matter that involves all the skill that you have in this field, I'm going to tell you right now that you should be looking into it because they are a lot of places that will pay you to install these devices specially since Goove only supports TVs from 55 to 65 inches, and your method seems like it could fit anything bigger than that.
Man this is the best explanation that I saw about it....Thanks to share you knowledge !!!
This is probably the only tutorial that places the lights all the way to the TVs edge giving the best effects 🤷🏻♂️
most put the lights on the flat back part of the TV then if u hang the TV the effect is ok at best nice job 👍🏼✌🏼
HDMI CEC works as a bus so it is simply a connected wire between pin 13 of all HDMI connections. All inputs and outputs pin 13 shares the same exact line. you can simply do a continuity test on your device's input and output HDMI ports' pin 13 and all should be connected to each other.
1st video explainibg sdr and hdr tone mapping and options available 👌
Best tutorials! Pure gold! I also liked the arc tutorial very much!
Excellent content, great delivery. Keep up the good work sir!
Thanks so much for making this video! I did this project last year using a separate tutorial and eventually unplugged it from my PS5 because HDR was not working (once you see it you can't go back). I had one of the cheap splitters but I'll use your recommendation to buy the gofanco splitter.
You're a special guy bro. Thanks for going ham on this!!!! 🙏🏽😢
Great video. Love your attention to the electronics detail
Great tutorial I've been running prismatik on windows for pc gaming for years now, might have to give this a shot with living room TV anyways thanks for all the detailed information keep up the great work.
I have build one of these years ago, but I have never installed it. Now I will have to.
i am going to flex non-stop when I install this
This was amazing, thank you!
Awesome job and effort on the video! Keep it up!
The best explanation I've ever found! Really appreciate your hard work!
I've got 1 question related to sharing one ground between led strip and PI4. Does it apply to WS2815 12V as well? Best regards!
This is the best tutorial! Thanks a lot!
I will admit it's a lot of work but the juice is worth the squeeze. Would you consider putting the kits together if I provided you the size details and shipping it. With full payment of course? 🤟😁
I will be coming back to this video in the near future.....
Hi Chris, Nice video. I am doing with the WS2815. it powered up and all LED is lid up. Only issue I have is Hyperion don't see the LED. seem like the DATA line doesn't work.
I'm connecting it through the GPIO 18. Any Help?
For Everyone that are doing the same with the Pi4. Hyperian driver ws28xx wouldn't load on Pi4. I put it in Pi3 and it work perfectly fine.
i may have missed it but if you use a 12v led strip how to do get that common ground with the raspberry now that the voltages are different? thanks!
You spoke clearly video was very detailed and clear step by step instructions ..yet my brain 🧠 process it like Charlie Browns teacher talking going to call around see if I buy the parts can some one do all the rest thanks for the video 👍
Kickass tut!!
Question: From the video it looks like you are putting the light strips behind your UST PJ screen of 100-120". As such, I'm assuming you had to use about 25+ ft of led strips and it looks like you used a single power supply (assuming 5v ~40A) .
1) Did you take two long led strips and solder them together on all 3 solder points (power and data) to make one really long strip?
2) For power injection in the middle of the strip, Did you then solder the secondary power wires somewhere near that solder point and then connect to the single PSU?
3) Did you power the second strip on the far end as well? Thus 3 total power connections or do you just have 2 power points (beginning and middle)?
4) Do you have a wiring diagram you could share?
I had the DreamScreen 4K prior to switching over to Phillips Hue for the living room tv. This was a fantastic tutorial. I’ll definitely go this route with my desktop setup.
Can you make a video on how to install Hyperion on BigSur MacOS as I am not able to get it working and not able to find any tutorials. Also this should be with out any external hardware device such as HDMI splitter. Just LED, Node MCU and MACOS
Chris Majestic
So if I don't want 4K HDR, as my tv doesn't support it, then I am good to go with HDMI Capture Card with Loop, right..? The HDCP won't be causing any problem for that...?
Great tutorial! One question, Chris: does this backligting kit works for 135" screens or it's max is 120"? I went to the website of Lytmi and found the kit up to only 120". Happy New Year!
Great video man! much appreciated 👍
Best video on this! Thanks a lot for sharing
HyperHDR (a Fork of Hyperion) allows for software sided HDR to SDR Tone-Mapping so you can choose a cheaper HDMI Splitter it still should support HDCP 2.2 otherwise you’ll lose Ambilight on protected content like Netflix
the resolution number you're changing. Is this the output resolution that your TV will display video at? Im hoping not as those low resolutions would not make for very watchable content.
This was awesome!!!
Thanks for the great information!!
In the diagram with the logic level converter, does this still assume the pi being powered via USB? Also, the resistor and capacitor links in description both go to the resistor. Thanks for the great video!
Great video but I don't get your amperage calculations at all. I was taught total amps = watts/volts and in more than 20 years of commercial and residential lighting sales including specialty LED lighting I've yet to ever encounter any scenario involving LED strips that came anywhere close to a 18A draw and that is low voltage systems inside and outdoors with plenty of long runs and voltage drop to account for. Maybe 1 or 1.5A tops. A huge power supply seems completely counter intuitive so just curious how you came to that formula of 0.06*NumberOfLeds?
Is there any updated components or better way to do this? Just wonder what the most updated guide is for this.
Thanks for this awesome video. Got some of the parts and am going to dive in tonight. I understand most of it, but how do you split the ground wire into two separate wires to create the common ground? Do I strip the ground wire and separate the wire fibers into two different wires? Could I use the extra ground wire that is already on the LED strip to connect to the pi? Couldn't find any info online. Thanks!
Hi,
Great video.
Does the ambilight work if contents are played on apps like kodi, netflix, etc installed on the TV?
And is it possible to install Kodi on the same rpi with Hyperion on it..?
Hi Chris, Can I use my Rasberry Pi Model B+ V1.2 on this application of Ambilight? Thanks, Vine
Love this set up
Hey Chris I am doing this behind my projector screen how can I reach out to you if I need any help with this long process ?
I've done it once for my projector.
Gonna do it again for the tv.
Do you think there is a way to auto turn on or off?
Thanks for the excellent tut.
Thank you for the video! I tryed to do the same, but have problem - on the ws2812b strip lights only first diod? What should I do? Help please)
Any updated recommendations on capture cards besides HD Diva??
Sweeeeet!!! Great video 👍👍👍👍👍
I understand the LEDs and Pi will require an external power supply, BUT why not use the video signal from TV USB port to feed the Pi to take advantage of the TV applications (most of what I watch) and not just the external video sources (only DVD player in my case). I have seen this might be possible on "5 great uses of your TV's USB port by Dignited": "The USB port on the TV also allows you to connect accessories to beautify the TV and its surrounding environment and enhance the user’s viewing experience. Also, 8K TVs from manufacturers such as Samsung (this is what I have) and LG have a sports ambient light function, and you can also purchase third-party TV lights that can be connected to the TV via a USB port".
Nice video! Thanks for sharing!
Can't wait for RPi's to be affordable again to try this 😆
hello I have a question about how many leds can be connected
I've wanted mine for a long time
100 inch screen backlight
Great video thanks for making it. Do you know if there is a way to sync WiFi bulbs to it as well?
Sounds awesome, but come on!! You need to take a course and pay attention in order to to this. Wow!
Great work keep it up brother 👍🏽, first info I actually found was on the logic converter though you mentioned you didn't find any when looking to do my project your video was the second I saw the first had info on it quick question how many LEDs on your projection setup I'm having an issue where I can't run more than 490 and I need 504 on my 120 inch screen
Would I need to worry about Dolby atmos running through the splitter?