raspberrypi.md

raspberry pi boblight server

instead of fiddling with drivers and long cables from my media center PC I wanted to have a small "satellite" system to handle the ambilight stuff. A raspberry pi is perfect for that purpose

Preparation

• install raspbian on your raspberry pi

Install software

• compile and install boblight (detailed instrutions: https://code.google.com/p/boblight/wiki/LPD8806_on_Raspberry_Pi#Installation ) here's the sort version:

  sudo apt-get install subversion cd ~ svn checkout http://boblight.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ boblight-read-only cd boblight-read-only/ ./configure --without-portaudio --without-x11 --without-libusb make sudo make install

• install libusb, pyusb and pycyborg

  sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0

  cd ~ git clone https://github.com/walac/pyusb.git cd pyusb sudo python setup.py install

  cd ~ git clone https://github.com/gryphius/pycyborg.git cd pycyborg sudo python setup.py install sudo udevadm trigger

Configuration

• create boblight config

  cd ~/pycyborg ./boblight.py --makeconfig

• configure the locations of your lights

• when asked for a filename, enter boblight-new.conf

• edit the generated boblight-new.conf and replace 127.0.0.1 with 0.0.0.0 so remote systems can connect

• copy the new file to the correct location

  sudo cp boblight-new.conf /etc/boblight.conf

• test your configuration by starting boblightd manually and configure for example the xbmc boblight addon to connect to your raspi

• make boblight start automatically on boot: edit /etc/rc.local and add (before the exit 0 line)

  /usr/local/bin/boblightd -f