Hypercon – Hyperion config tool Hyperion is another Ambilight clone for the Raspberry Pi. It essentially works in the same way as the boblight-dispmanx solution in that it uses dispmanx to capture the screen contents, which are then converted to…

The September Raspbmc update has been pushed out and unfortunately it has broken boblight support. This release introduced a new 3.10 Linux kernel which has changed the way SPI is working. Right now there is no fix, so I suggest…

* Ok, maybe not the ultimate, but you’d find it difficult to beat for the price :p Overview A while back a friend of mine asked how he could go about recreating my setup from scratch, i.e starting with no…

The July Raspbmc update brought 2 changes to boblight: It now uses Speedy’s boblight daemon Speedy’s version requires some changes to boblight.conf so you may find your existing version no longer works.Basically, all ‘name’ values need to be changed to…

Boblight has been running quite successfully on Raspbmc for quite a while, but now with the release of boblight-dispmanx (which I previously discussed here) it’s OpenElec’s turn. The steps to get it up and running are pretty straightforward, especially if…

The world of boblight on the Raspberry Pi is certainly a fast moving one. Thanks to a recent Raspberry Pi firmware update by dom, and boblight-dispmanx by brooc, boblight on the Raspberry Pi is now even better! Previously, when a…

A while back I put together a guide on how to get boblight working on the Raspberry Pi. (If you’re unsure what boblight is/does, then check out these videos) This involved compiling boblightd and installing a custom build of XBMC,…

Today I decided to learn some Python with my Raspberry Pi. I already have an Ambilight/Boblight system hooked up to my Raspberry Pi (you can read about it here), essentially it’s a series of LEDs mounted on the edge of…