I've been thinking of getting one of these for ages now:
Previously though people were making them with RasbPis, whereas now there are these "all-in" ones which are supposed to do everything. Right now, I have an LED strip on the back of my TV to reduce glare but I can see the value in the ambilight feature.
But I've got one concern. The instructions say you can cut the strip to size to remove any excess; fine. But for the ambilight to work, surely the little box needs to know the length of the strip, and perform some calculations to work out the top/left/bottom/right sides of the TV?
So to use a daft example, let's say I buy a massive strip, and end up cutting three-quarters of it off. Won't the whole strip be configured to just use the colour of the top of the TV?
Or does it know the strip length due to electric resistance, or something? Is it that clever? I could believe that but only if told by someone impartial, as these are often Chinese units with quite poor English on their descriptions.
Previously though people were making them with RasbPis, whereas now there are these "all-in" ones which are supposed to do everything. Right now, I have an LED strip on the back of my TV to reduce glare but I can see the value in the ambilight feature.
But I've got one concern. The instructions say you can cut the strip to size to remove any excess; fine. But for the ambilight to work, surely the little box needs to know the length of the strip, and perform some calculations to work out the top/left/bottom/right sides of the TV?
So to use a daft example, let's say I buy a massive strip, and end up cutting three-quarters of it off. Won't the whole strip be configured to just use the colour of the top of the TV?
Or does it know the strip length due to electric resistance, or something? Is it that clever? I could believe that but only if told by someone impartial, as these are often Chinese units with quite poor English on their descriptions.
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