Raspbmc July update and boblight

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 exact 3 characters long. That includes the values in the [color] and [light] sections.See this version here to get an idea of what needs to be changed: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6885567/boblight_50xWS2801_speedy.conf
  The advantage of this is, as the name suggests, better performance and less CPU intensive.
• Colour info is now captured by a standalone process, boblight-dispmanx
  Previously, colour information was captured by a modified OMXplayer when video was playing. Now, boblight-dispmanx is running all the time and essentially taking screenshots of whatever is on screen. e.g the XBMC interface.
  While the OMXplayer version read settings from boboptions.txt, the new dispmanx version requires the settings to be passed to it when it starts.

So, to get boblight working in the July update, it’s easier than ever:

1. Install Raspbmc July release
   I always tend to do a complete reinstall which seems to go a lot smoother than doing an update, but an update should work too.
2. Create/copy boblight.conf
   This needs to be placed in /etc/
   Make sure it is ‘Speedy’ compatible (see above).
3. (optional) Apply your boblight options
   Edit this file:

   sudo nano /etc/init/boblight-dispmanx.conf

   Look for the line beginning “exec /usr/bin/boblight-dispmanx…” and change to whatever settings you had in boboptions.txt. If you use boblight clients on other machines to send colour info to the Pi, you may also want to change priority from 100 back to 129. Update: add “-b on” to enable lights for GUI

4. Enable boblight in Raspbmc Settings
   Your LEDs should start working, if not, try rebooting.

Any problems, leave a comment below.