A side effect of my smart home improvements is that I finally twigged last week (DOH) that I could link my living room's Hue lights to the action on my PC monitor.
So I splashed out on some Play Light Bars and a Gradient Light Strip to add to my system.
End result:
I'm well chuffed with the effect, and it really adds to immersion when playing.
Really easy to set up too; the most complicated part was fitting a dual-monitor arm to my desk.
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Thanks for the videos,nice to see it in action. What's it like on the eyes? Do you usually keep the room dark or have ambient light?
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Lovely.Mat wrote: I'm well chuffed with the effect, and it really adds to immersion when playing.
Really easy to set up too; the most complicated part was fitting a dual-monitor arm to my desk.
We have a Philips OLED Ambilight TV that does all this, it's amazing and none of the effort you went through to set it all up.
It's HDMI 2.1, VRR etc so excellent with the Xbox etc, and for movies/TV it really adds depth.
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@Misfit:
Yeah, what made me want to play more with this stuff was getting a Govee light strip about a year ago for my Sony Bravia. Sure, it's one of those camera-mounted-on-top jobbies, but it does the trick, and I don't watch TV without it these days.
Before getting the Govee, I did try the overpriced Hue Sync Box, but there's no feedback loop for third-party smart TVs, so it did nothing, and I ended up returning it.
@Little stoned kiwi, it's surprisingly fine on the eyes; you're probably thinking the same as I did looking at it:
Won't all that light dazzle me?
And yet, it doesn't diminish my ability to focus on the action on screen at all, only serving to augment the experience.
It does work best with the curtains drawn, but my PC desk is far enough back in the room that I get the effect even with the curtains open; I think the enclosed desk helps.
Yeah, what made me want to play more with this stuff was getting a Govee light strip about a year ago for my Sony Bravia. Sure, it's one of those camera-mounted-on-top jobbies, but it does the trick, and I don't watch TV without it these days.
Before getting the Govee, I did try the overpriced Hue Sync Box, but there's no feedback loop for third-party smart TVs, so it did nothing, and I ended up returning it.
@Little stoned kiwi, it's surprisingly fine on the eyes; you're probably thinking the same as I did looking at it:
Won't all that light dazzle me?
And yet, it doesn't diminish my ability to focus on the action on screen at all, only serving to augment the experience.
It does work best with the curtains drawn, but my PC desk is far enough back in the room that I get the effect even with the curtains open; I think the enclosed desk helps.