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blink bug in boblight plugin 1 year 1 month ago #1

Mettbrot
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Hi there,

i recently installed my own adalight ambilight setup and everything worked out of the box with the boblightd addon. This is amazing!!!

But i was experiencing some blinking on the leds where the picture simply stands still. Or in the screensaver all of the leds blinked at some random time.
Next thing where the submenus on the left and the right, and the video options menu.

You can see what i mean when you look at the videos

-blinking while screensaver is running
-blinking in video selection menu (incl. led closeup)

-blinking while screensaver is running
-blinking in video selection menu
-blinking in video options menu, with running and stopped video

If you need any logs or something from me, just tell me

Last Edit: 1 year 1 month ago by Mettbrot.

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Aw: blink bug in boblight plugin 1 year 1 month ago #2

Mettbrot
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I thought maybe you could need my config file. I changed the values to have 9 LEDs at the top, 7 at both sides and 2x3 at the bottom on both sides of the stand. (double counted edge leds)
But i did not change anything else:

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#config file for adalight from http://www.ladyada.net/make/adalight/

[global]
interface 127.0.0.1
port      19333

[device]
name            device1
type            momo
output          /dev/ttyACM0
channels        75
prefix		41 64 61 00 18 4D
interval        10000
rate            115200
debug           off #turn this on to see what it's doing with the serial port
delayafteropen	1000000


[color]
name            red
rgb             FF0000

[color]
name            green
rgb             00FF00

[color]
name            blue
rgb             0000FF

[light]
name            light1
color           red     device1 1
color           green   device1 2
color           blue    device1 3
hscan           22.22 33.33
vscan           85.71 100

[light]
name            light2
color           red     device1 4
color           green   device1 5
color           blue    device1 6
hscan           11.11 22.22
vscan           85.71 100

[light]
name            light3
color           red     device1 7
color           green   device1 8
color           blue    device1 9
hscan           0 11.11
vscan           85.71 100

[light]
name            light4
color           red     device1 10
color           green   device1 11
color           blue    device1 12
hscan           0 11.11
vscan           71.43 85.71

[light]
name            light5
color           red     device1 13
color           green   device1 14
color           blue    device1 15
hscan           0 11.11
vscan           57.14 71.43

[light]
name            light6
color           red     device1 16
color           green   device1 17
color           blue    device1 18
hscan           0 11.11
vscan           42.86 57.14

[light]
name            light7
color           red     device1 19
color           green   device1 20
color           blue    device1 21
hscan           0 11.11
vscan           28.57 42.86

[light]
name            light8
color           red     device1 22
color           green   device1 23
color           blue    device1 24
hscan           0 11.11
vscan           14.29 28.57

[light]
name            light9
color           red     device1 25
color           green   device1 26
color           blue    device1 27
hscan           0 11.11
vscan           0 14.29

[light]
name            light10
color           red     device1 28
color           green   device1 29
color           blue    device1 30
hscan           11.11 22.22
vscan           0 14.29

[light]
name            light11
color           red     device1 31
color           green   device1 32
color           blue    device1 33
hscan           22.22 33.33
vscan           0 14.29

[light]
name            light12
color           red     device1 34
color           green   device1 35
color           blue    device1 36
hscan           33.33 44.44
vscan           0 14.29

[light]
name            light13
color           red     device1 37
color           green   device1 38
color           blue    device1 39
hscan           44.44 55.56
vscan           0 14.29

[light]
name            light14
color           red     device1 40
color           green   device1 41
color           blue    device1 42
hscan           55.56 66.67
vscan           0 14.29

[light]
name            light15
color           red     device1 43
color           green   device1 44
color           blue    device1 45
hscan           66.67 77.78
vscan           0 14.29

[light]
name            light16
color           red     device1 46
color           green   device1 47
color           blue    device1 48
hscan           77.78 88.89
vscan           0 14.29

[light]
name            light17
color           red     device1 49
color           green   device1 50
color           blue    device1 51
hscan           88.89 100
vscan           0 14.29

[light]
name            light18
color           red     device1 52
color           green   device1 53
color           blue    device1 54
hscan           88.89 100
vscan           14.29 28.57

[light]
name            light19
color           red     device1 55
color           green   device1 56
color           blue    device1 57
hscan           88.89 100
vscan           28.57 42.86

[light]
name            light20
color           red     device1 58
color           green   device1 59
color           blue    device1 60
hscan           88.89 100
vscan           42.86 57.14

[light]
name            light21
color           red     device1 61
color           green   device1 62
color           blue    device1 63
hscan           88.89 100
vscan           57.14 71.43

[light]
name            light22
color           red     device1 64
color           green   device1 65
color           blue    device1 66
hscan           88.89 100
vscan           71.43 85.71

[light]
name            light23
color           red     device1 67
color           green   device1 68
color           blue    device1 69
hscan           88.89 100
vscan           85.71 100

[light]
name            light24
color           red     device1 70
color           green   device1 71
color           blue    device1 72
hscan           77.78 88.89
vscan           85.71 100

[light]
name            light25
color           red     device1 73
color           green   device1 74
color           blue    device1 75
hscan           66.67 77.78
vscan           85.71 100

Last Edit: 1 year 1 month ago by Mettbrot.

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Re: Aw: blink bug in boblight plugin 1 year 1 month ago #3

steini
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I bet you have a nVidia card.

It happened to me a couple of months ago running Xbmclive (Dharma) og my Eevo3610. I could fix it by adding
Option "NoFlip" "true"
to xorg.conf (under the section "device")

After adding this to xorg I got horrible framedrops when scanning the library and watching videos at the same time. The culprit was <nofliptimeout> in advancedsettings.xml

It was not the perfect solution because disabling flipping meant worse performance and i even got some tearing on the upper side of the screen)

I tried everything I thought of, including updating the nvidia drivers and chaning xorg even more.

What I ended up doing was a clean openelec install (eden) and using the boblight plugin.

I dont know what is different, but it works perfectly now. No blinking of the lights and my xbmc is running tearing free and smooth.

Hope you will find a solution

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Aw: blink bug in boblight plugin 1 year 1 month ago #4

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Hi there,

yesturday i tried to update to 2.0 beta1 PVR version and screwed my kernel image. So i had to reinstall everything. After installing the boblightd plugin (you do mean boblightd addon right? not the boblight addon from xbmc repository?!) everything worked fine until the next or 2nd reboot. I am back with the flickering now.
I in deed have an Nvidia card, the integrated GF9300 chip. Do you mean i should try it with the "NoFlip" "true" option? I have no advancedsettings.xml do i have to take any actions there?

Thank you for your answer

Last Edit: 1 year 1 month ago by Mettbrot. Reason: typo

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Aw: blink bug in boblight plugin 1 year 1 month ago #5

Mettbrot OFFLINE Expert Boarder Posts: 262 Thank you received: 11 Karma: 3	Quick Question: Where do i put the NoFlip "True" option? If i create a xorg.conf file with only this config it overwrites some default values and openELEC wont start. So Where do i find the default xorg.conf file where i simply can add NoFlip?! Thanks!
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Aw: blink bug in boblight plugin 1 year 2 weeks ago #6

Mettbrot OFFLINE Expert Boarder Posts: 262 Thank you received: 11 Karma: 3	For everyone experiencing problems like this: cp /etc/X11/xorg-nvidia.conf /storage/.config/xorg.conf The "NoFlip" "true" option did in deed help me so Thanks for this
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