1 Topic by C0rn3j (edited by C0rn3j 02-02-2017 23:03:26)

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Topic: DIY Lightpack/Ambilight - help welcome

Hi,
I'm attempting to make my own Lightpack, and I want it to work with SVPLight on my linux desktop.

Now, I'd really welcome any input since I'm new to electronics in general, and the software stack is really confusing to me.

According to this wiki page - https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/SVPlight - for blinkenlights to work with SVPlight, I need to get it o work through Prismatik. The link to Prismatik on the page is broken, but I assume it is this dead repo - https://github.com/woodenshark/Lightpack/

Now I found someone who forked it and keeps working on it, so I assume I can use that instead.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Lightpack/comm … n_windows/
https://github.com/psieg/Lightpack/

Now I got a 5V 10A chinese PSU - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/LED-Pow … 26418.html
And 5M(30/M) WS2812B coming, of which I'll be only using some 2.5M - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1m-4m-5 … 19167.html

I also got a RaspberryPi3B, and a bunch of arduino dev boards, but I'm assuming I can only use the RPi.

If someone could point me in the right direction, that'd be awesome. As of now, I have no idea what to do when the LEDs arrive, as most of the guides seem to be geared towards actual Lightpack kits, and not DIY.

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Re: DIY Lightpack/Ambilight - help welcome

Did you see that schemes: Lightpack_DIY.md?

Re: DIY Lightpack/Ambilight - help welcome

>  I need to get it o work through Prismatik

... or follow Lightpack's USB protocol

> The link to Prismatik on the page is broken, but I assume it is this dead repo

https://github.com/Atarity/Lightpack-do … ct_home.md
https://github.com/Atarity/Lightpack
https://github.com/Atarity/Lightpack-hardware

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Re: DIY Lightpack/Ambilight - help welcome

>... or follow Lightpack's USB protocol
Oh, so I could connect the raspberry pi and the computer via male-male USB cable in the end?
Then I just need to figure out how to make it speak the protocol, I assume in worst case I'll have to do some coding.

So the remaining issue is knowing how to operate the strips through RPi, but there are a lot of resources that I can use, so that's not an issue.

I guess that's it? Thanks a lot for the resources, I'll be back in a month when I'm home and have the strips!

Re: DIY Lightpack/Ambilight - help welcome

> Oh, so I could connect the raspberry pi and the computer via male-male USB cable in the end?

hmm... no, in case of rpi you definitely will have to work via Prismatik

or something like this
install Hyperion on the rpi and Ambibox on the PC
SVPlight can control Ambibox the same way it controls Prismatik

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Re: DIY Lightpack/Ambilight - help welcome

So, I think I got the hardware set up correctly, but I'm having trouble getting Hyperion to run.

https://hyperion-project.org/threads/rp … r-out.759/

Is there something else than Hyperion that I can use on the Rpi?