Philips living color

Post by **Digit** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 2:14 pm

I don't see why you would use 2 Homeseer dll's to create a COMPort when you don't use Homeseer at all.
Serial communication is something any programming language can handle.
Or am i missing something here?

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Post by **tonilou** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:06 am

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.

Post by **Digit** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:49 pm

As I expected.

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Post by **Snelvuur** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:30 pm

As a note, i've received my assembled package from Ivo.

// Erik (binkey.nl)

Post by **Willem4ever** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:01 pm

interesting, he promised to let me know once assembled kits were available again. I'm thinking to create an ethernet version ....

Post by **Rde** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:44 am

Does anyone know if the Livingcolors G2 (50% more light and adjutable colorfade) has the same transmitter and would work too with these homebrew projects ?
AshaiRey can you post some pics of your home automated setup ? Must be nice with those livingcolor lamps.

Post by **tonilou** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:47 pm

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 source code in order to hardocde the lamp address? I'm quite new on the Arduino...

Toni

Post by **tonilou** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:16 am

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

Thanks!

Toni

Post by **tonilou** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:08 pm

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/elektronic ... bLight.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 colour commands.

So to connect the arduino kit and BobLight I just need to know how BobLight sends its commands, so I can write an Arduino program to parse them and make the lamp react to the {R,G,B} data sent by BobLight.

Does someone know what is BobLight actually writing to the COM port? I tried to use a COM port sniffer, but the output is hard to reverse enginner.

Toni

Post by **tonilou** » Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:02 pm

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, games).

Right now my setup just works withj one lamp, but extending it to more lamps in order to capture different screen regions (top, bottom, left, right) it's trivial. I'll get a new Philips lamp soon and will extend it.

Toni