Major suggestion / prototype going on.,

[triphoppingman]

Hello David.

So I have hacked apart your lovely application and connected it via USB to an Arduino, connected in turn to a string of LED lights (using the APA102 chips). The idea is that you place the LED strip lights around the back of your TV, projecting their light onto the wall. The Android application runs on my Nvidia shield TV and sends out the pixel colors at the edge of the display to the arduino. The arduino then spools out those colors to the led strip. This means that the leds "project" the image behind the TV. It's quite a nice effect. This is a copy of the Phillips Ambilight system and there are a number of other projects. Let me know how you want to handle the code attribution etc. The code is a butchery at the moment (I'm no Android developer, thats for sure).

[davidvavra]

Hi Bruce,
that's great that my code helped you in hacking :) I would accept pull
request to my code, but not in current hacked form. You would need to make
app more generic - not break existing functionality, create some kind of
chooser between LIFX and LED lights in the beginning and keep the code
civil in terms of existing code convention. Then I can release it to the
Play Store and make it accessible for everyone.

If you wish to use it just for hacking and just for yourself, it's also
completely OK to keep it as separate fork.

David

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:36 PM, bruce mcdonald [email protected]
wrote:

Hello David.

So I have hacked apart your lovely application and connected it via USB to
an Arduino, connected in turn to a string of LED lights (using the APA102
chips). The idea is that you place the LED strip lights around the back of
your TV, projecting their light onto the wall. The Android application runs
on my Nvidia shield TV and sends out the pixel colors at the edge of the
display to the arduino. The arduino then spools out those colors to the led
strip. This means that the leds "project" the image behind the TV. It's
quite a nice effect. This is a copy of the Phillips Ambilight system and
there are a number of other projects. Let me know how you want to handle
the code attribution etc. The code is a butchery at the moment (I'm no
Android developer, thats for sure).

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