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Well, just for the records, I finally got the whole thing workig: a PC-bsed solution that gets the desktop colors in real time and sends them with Arduino to the Philips lamp.

So it creates an Ambilight effect with the LivingColors lamp from what is being seen in my Media Center PC (TV, movies ...

Hi again

OK, I managed to modify the LiCo_Control program to see how the idea works.

Now I'd like to make BobLight (http://www.xs4all.nl/~loosen/elektronica/BobLight/BobLight.rar) work with the kit. As far as I can see, BobLight.exe scans the screen and sends to a selected serial port some kind of ...

OK, found the LiCo_Control Arduino program on the website and located the lamp address line. So I'm on my way.

Thanks!


Toni

Hi

I have just received my kit from Ivo.

It's working and I can contol the lamp from putty sending commands to COM5.

However, I can't see how to harcode the actual lamp address in the sourcecode and download it to the kit.

AshaiRey, can you please give me some directions on how to modify the ...

Yes, it's simpler to use some standard COM ActiveX component. Moreover, I tried the HS dlls and they work only if Homeseer is running in the background, so it's not an option.

I assume one of the dll is <HomeSeer2.dll>., which shoud contain the COM classes to manipulate Homeseer.

Anyway, I assume those dll are not public. Am I right?


Toni

And I assume the HS object is in some way exposed by a higher piece of software like Homesheer?

OK, so it's a matter of sending the command line to the COM port. I assume "hs" is some Homesheer exposed object, but I'll find some other way to talk to COM by script (I'm not a Homesheer user).

Thanks!

Thanks Ashai

Since I have no experience with electronics I'll continue looking for some ready-made board.

Could you share with us your vbscripts to get a better idea on how to programatically control the light?

Thanks again!

@AshaiRey

I'm very interested in controlling the Living colors from my PC, but all information I find is in dutch and Ivo does not reply to see if there are mounted boards left.

Since you are the person who knows most about this topic, can you show us the vbscript used to control the board? Is the ...