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<blockquote data-quote="TommySharp" data-source="post: 975716" data-attributes="member: 29262">I just followed this tutorial online...&nbsp;<a href="http://learn.adafruit.com/adalight-diy-ambient-tv-lighting/overview" target="_blank">http://learn.adafruit.com/adalight-diy-ambient-tv-lighting/overview</a>&nbsp;I didn't buy the kit from them but you could. Got a 50 LED light setup and Arduino board for about NZ$75 on eBay. Just need to make sure your LED string has LEDs that each have an inbuilt &quot;IC&quot;.&nbsp;Took me about an hour to setup, had to root around for a 5V 2amp power supply.&nbsp;Masking tape is a temporary and FREE way to attach the lights and worked well.<a href="http://sdrv.ms/Wxv5KD" target="_blank">http://sdrv.ms/Wxv5KD</a>&nbsp;I was worried that hardware decoded video wouldn't be registered but it worked fine. For now I have to manually start the &quot;processing&quot; app but there is apparently a way of packaging it up into an exe which I could then maybe start somehow from within MP as I don't think I'd want the lights on all the time.&nbsp;On my desktop PC with a core 2 duo the lights only managed to &quot;monitor&quot; at 8 frames per second using about 20% CPU. On my i3 HTPC that jumped up to 28 frames per second still with 20% CPU so I was happy with that!&nbsp;Any other questions just PM me. When I make the setup more permanent I might write it up with photos all along the way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TommySharp, post: 975716, member: 29262"] I just followed this tutorial online... [url]http://learn.adafruit.com/adalight-diy-ambient-tv-lighting/overview[/url] I didn't buy the kit from them but you could. Got a 50 LED light setup and Arduino board for about NZ$75 on eBay. Just need to make sure your LED string has LEDs that each have an inbuilt "IC". Took me about an hour to setup, had to root around for a 5V 2amp power supply. Masking tape is a temporary and FREE way to attach the lights and worked well. [url]http://sdrv.ms/Wxv5KD[/url] I was worried that hardware decoded video wouldn't be registered but it worked fine. For now I have to manually start the "processing" app but there is apparently a way of packaging it up into an exe which I could then maybe start somehow from within MP as I don't think I'd want the lights on all the time. On my desktop PC with a core 2 duo the lights only managed to "monitor" at 8 frames per second using about 20% CPU. On my i3 HTPC that jumped up to 28 frames per second still with 20% CPU so I was happy with that! Any other questions just PM me. When I make the setup more permanent I might write it up with photos all along the way. [/QUOTE]

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