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Show HN: LuxBase – Open-Source Smart Lighting Control System

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Re: Show HN: LuxBase – Open-Source Smart Lighting Control System

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Post by fit2rule »

If anyone is looking for an out-of-the-box solution to get started writing Lighting control applications, you can pick up a MagicShifter right now for a good price and get cracking:

http://magicshifter.net/

Open Source, full repo for the onboard MS3KOS here:

http://github.com/magicshifter/

The MagicShifter is an open source Light Synthesizer with 16 RGB LED's, fully controllable over Wifi, with cool features such as an onboard web application for designing your own POV images, MIDI control (great for musicians who want their own custom light-show in sync with the drum machine), and a few other cool things: magnetometer, accelerometers, etc.

We have a lot more planned for this synth, so if you're interested in the subject - consider joining us!

Re: Show HN: LuxBase – Open-Source Smart Lighting Control System

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Post by fit2rule »

mjg59 wrote: post #6
kienankb wrote: post #5

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Well hey, would you look at that. Exactly what I'm trying to do! Heh I was shooting for the REST API because I figured there's nothing that doesn't communicate through it today. I'll have to check into it more, especially if I decide to do dedicated stuffs down the line. I am a fan of the multiple strips thing.

The bridge code is at https://github.com/mjg59/ulfire but doesn't have the Bluetooth code since I haven't got it working reliably yet (the machine I'm testing with has an ancient version of Bluez, and I need to upgrade that before doing more testing). I'll push that in the near future. It's pretty board specific though, I've found at least 6 different Bluetooth LE protocols for lighting so far. The easiest way to do…

I'm not a huge fan of using Bluetooth for this application, but you've done some great work there .. I'll have to look into your implementation of the Hue API, maybe we could use it on the MagicShifter (which uses WiFi instead of BT)... ?
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