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Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by Dansel »

SulfurHexaFluri wrote: post #111
devmor wrote: post #39

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My "smart TV" is a pile of junk. We wanted a large TV for home theatre, but couldn't find anything over 65" that wasn't "smart". It takes 3-5 seconds to turn on, then another 10-20 seconds to react to input from the remote (at which time it will rapidly replay all input provided that it didn't react to in this time, sometimes turning itself back off for no reason). All of the "apps" are barely responsive and crash re…

My samsung tv is like this. All I want to do is turn the tv on and switch to HDMI 1. Something that used to be fast and trivial now takes ages of waiting for laggy animations.

It might interest you to look into the "digital signage" market. It is displays made for hotels and conferences and the like and they don't have those smart features (yet). Picture quality likely isn't going to be top of the line, though, so it depends on what you value.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by josalhor »

jhap wrote: post #72
josalhor wrote: post #14

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I don't get it either. If I was to buy LEDs, I would buy them and use them around the house. I have seen what some hotels do and it is amazing . I have seen LED strips behind the mirror, so when you wake up at night you can get your way around but don't get blinded by the light. However, here we are, with people buying RGB fans and having their desktops on the desk taking up space and making more noise (because they…

Do you have any other ideas you recommend? I thought this mirror idea was brilliant!

Absolutely! I have been dreaming about the mirror since I first saw it! I have found this brilliant website [0] that has many of the ideas I know of. Mainly the LEDs behind the mirror [1], on the stairs [2], on the kitchen [3], and the ceiling [4]. The ceiling ones are pretty cool because they can lit up the room more homogeneously and it makes it way more relaxing and comfy. Some of these ideas help to better simulate sunlight which I find pretty stimulating.

I know of a few more that are not on the website tho! I have seen led strips on closets (ala fridge style) that light up when you open them (With something like [5]). I have also seen the opposite of the LEDs on the ceiling, on the floor. Something like [6] but in the hall is pretty cool. When you finish watching that movie/tv show and go to sleep you no longer have to choose between finding your way in the dark and getting light at your eyes.

When I get my own place, I will certainly try out all of these ideas. I find them light (hehe) years better than LEDs on computers.

[0]: https://www.lightstec.com/led-strip-light-ideas/

[1]: https://www.lightstec.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/led-str...

[2]: https://www.lightstec.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Led-str...

[3]: https://www.lightstec.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Led-str...

[4]: https://www.lightstec.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/strip-l...

[5]: https://www.amazon.com/Cabinet-Wardrobe-Switches-Drawers-App...

[6]: https://www.instyleled.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/pure...

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by capableweb »

Dansel wrote: post #141
SulfurHexaFluri wrote: post #111

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My samsung tv is like this. All I want to do is turn the tv on and switch to HDMI 1. Something that used to be fast and trivial now takes ages of waiting for laggy animations.

It might interest you to look into the "digital signage" market. It is displays made for hotels and conferences and the like and they don't have those smart features (yet). Picture quality likely isn't going to be top of the line, though, so it depends on what you value.

Those also tends to be a lot harder to find in stores, if not impossible, together with a lot more expensive.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by larusso »

I build my first PC in 10 years this summer. My work machine is a 16inch MacBook Pro and since I had a laptop and I was not satisfied with the performance of my Mac I decided to build a PC. I have nothing against RGB as it gives me the possibility to change the mood at my desk at will. So I thought. I made the grave mistake to buy RGB RAM and by the love of god the manufacture thought that it’s a cool Idea That the default pattern is the rainbow color animation. My motherboard can control RGB for most devices from Bios but not all! So I can configure that everything is dark at boot except the RAM. My grafixcard is also sometimes acting up and shows a single static color on some LEDs. That is all not so bad as long as I boot into windows. The tools on windows start up and set it to my preferred setting (some static color or off). But Linux is a different beast. I hoped OpenLED could help but it won‘t work with my hardware. I managed to get my RAM to show up (at that point my goal was to shut all down when in Linux) but it only finds 2 of my RAM slots. I have 4 modules and still room free for 4 more. Means I can only disable or set colors for 3 modules the rest rainbow circles still. I thought about replacing the RAM but at the moment I lived with the Lightshow.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by checkyoursudo »

tylermenezes wrote: post #67
wlesieutre wrote: post #62

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I let my CPU fan do its default color changing rainbow, buuuut only because it's under my desk where I can't see it. If nothing else, I can quickly glance down there and see if the computer is powered on. AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors, I guess the market for enthusiast range parts has decided that we want RGB hardware. Personally I think case aesthetics peaked around the Antec P180 which looked…

> Someday I'd like to do a "desktop literally built into the desk top" For 7 years my desktop has been literally just a motherboard sitting on a cut-up yoga mat on my bookshelf. [1] The SSDs are piled next to it. My work PC is zip-tied to a milk crate. Don't let people fool you, you can be pretty creative with your definition of "case". [1] https://i.imgur.com/NkEmS4N.png

My old i5-2500K based build was like that for many, many years. It sat on my desk on top of an anti-static bag (that the motherboard came in). The new graphics card I had, which was a gtx 480 maybe, wouldn't fit in the old case I had.

It took me at least 5 years to get a new case, much to my wife's annoyance.

It was fine. Swapping SSDs was easy. >.<

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by ksk »

viraptor wrote: post #138
ksk wrote: post #71

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Another cool usage is to light up specific keys based on the current application. This is quite useful in things like games or editors. You can have green for movement, white for actions, etc.

I never got that one. Who is it for? When you're playing a game, you're not looking at the keyboard. And with just the few buttons available covered by your hands, it's not really for others... Why is the game-layout lighting a thing?

Its mostly aesthetics. It could be useful if you come back to a game after a break and you forget some of the keys. I can see its use as a training mode too.

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by wlesieutre »

SulfurHexaFluri wrote: post #110
wlesieutre wrote: post #62

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I let my CPU fan do its default color changing rainbow, buuuut only because it's under my desk where I can't see it. If nothing else, I can quickly glance down there and see if the computer is powered on. AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors, I guess the market for enthusiast range parts has decided that we want RGB hardware. Personally I think case aesthetics peaked around the Antec P180 which looked…

>AMD ships them standard with their Ryzen processors Only for the ryzen 7 and the r9 _900 cpus. The low end ones come with a basic black cooler and the high end come with nothing.

Ah, I'm on a Ryzen 7.

I was used to always getting an aftermarket cooler for previous Intel builds to replace the stock one with the whiny little fan, but the included Ryzen 7 cooler is comparatively great (unnecessary bling aside).

Re: Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc

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Post by tylermenezes »

netizen-9748 wrote: post #128
tylermenezes wrote: post #67

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> Someday I'd like to do a "desktop literally built into the desk top" For 7 years my desktop has been literally just a motherboard sitting on a cut-up yoga mat on my bookshelf. [1] The SSDs are piled next to it. My work PC is zip-tied to a milk crate. Don't let people fool you, you can be pretty creative with your definition of "case". [1] https://i.imgur.com/NkEmS4N.png

The party hats are a nice touch

Thanks! I made them for a video Github put out last year, [1] and decided to keep 'em around.

https://youtu.be/w5HykygC43Y?t=7

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