Ambilight Home Step 4 (Installing and Configuring Boblight)

Although I’ve taken it easy, here is the fourth part of the tutorial to set up your homemade Ambilight . In this part we’re going to install Boblight, the](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux “Linux”) Linux [library that allows you to convert a video that plays on the PC/Rasp into information for your Arduino.

1. Installing Boblight

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   We’ll perform the following steps to download, compile, and install Boblight

   //Accedemos a home
   cd ~
   
   //Descargamos el repositorio
   svn checkout http://boblight.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ boblight-read-only
   cd boblight-read-only/
   
   //Insertamos los siguientes comandos
   export CFLAGS="-fpic"
   export CXXFLAGS="-fpic"
   
   //Configuramos
   ./configure
   
   //No te preocupes si te salen dos warnings
   //Uno sobre --with-ola y otro sobre --with-ffmpeg
   //Funcionará después correctamente
   //Construimos con
   
       make
   //Instalamos con[sudo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo "Sudo") make install
   
   //Ahora ejecutamos
   sudo ldconfig
   
   //Ya tenemos boblight instalado

2. Setting up Boblight

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   //Pasamos la configuración necesaria a su lugar
   /////////////////////////////////////Arduino UNO
   ////No tengo arduino UNO por lo que tendrás que configurarla////manualmmente después
   
   sudo cp ~/boblight-read-only/arduino/duemilanove.conf /etc/boblight.conf
   sudo nano /etc/boblight.conf
   
   //Como paso inicial comenta la linea interface de tal forma que quede
   //Esto permitirá que nos conectemos desde otros dispositivos diferentes a localhost
   #interface       127.0.0.1
   [Ctrl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_key "Control key") + o y Ctrl + X
   
   /////////////////////////////////////Arduino MEGA////podéis descargaros desde como sigue un fichero preconfigurado
   
   cd $HOME
   wget https://talleradmin.com/ARCHIVOSMIOS/boblight.conf
   sudo cp ~/boblight.conf /etc/boblight.conf
   
   /////////////////////////////////////Para todos
   
   sudo nano /etc/boblight.conf
   //Comprobamos que el campo output en la sección device coincide con el puerto que sacamos anteriormente y sino lo editamos /dev/[nombre del puerto]
   Ctrl + o y después Ctrl + x

   \* In the file that we have just edited, we can change all the settings, you will see that red has 0.2 as a setting, since my leds for some reason predominated in the range. If this is not your case you can leave it at 1.0

3. Boblight is installed and configured!

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4. To avoid having to manually start boblight every time you restart your PC you can auto-boot it with the instructions of HERE I had these tutorials about Ambilight quite abandoned and many of you have asked me about them, so even if they don’t contain all the information I would like, I think they can be useful to you.