Uploaded November 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video is a demo of the Boblight daemon pushing 50 WS2801 pixels attached to the back of a TV. Its a totally ghetto setup I put together with masking tape to make this video. The boblight daemon is running on a Raspberry Pi running occidentalis and being fed its instructions from the boblight plugin for XBMC. XBMC is on a fully separate Windows Desktop that is driving the video. The boblight plugin for XBMC communications with the Raspberry pi via a UDP stream. It analyzes the edges of the video in real time and streams the data to the Raspberry Pi that drives the LEDs.
For the full effect, focus on the wall behind the TV to see how the colors on the edge of the screen bleed over to create an ambient light in the room.
This is only the demo, full tutorial coming soon.
HackedExistence.com
This video is a demo of the Boblight daemon pushing 50 WS2801 pixels attached to the back of a TV. Its a totally ghetto setup I put together with masking tape to make this video. The boblight daemon is running on a Raspberry Pi running occidentalis and being fed its instructions from the boblight plugin for XBMC. XBMC is on a fully separate Windows Desktop that is driving the video. The boblight plugin for XBMC communications with the Raspberry pi via a UDP stream. It analyzes the edges of the video in real time and streams the data to the Raspberry Pi that drives the LEDs.
For the full effect, focus on the wall behind the TV to see how the colors on the edge of the screen bleed over to create an ambient light in the room.
This is only the demo, full tutorial coming soon.
HackedExistence.com
