Plex/ Lightstrip (Hue)/ dynamically matching lights to TV picture

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Hi All,

Im sure this could have been posted in many different locations, but here is a start.

I want to run plex on my samsung TV. I want have a lightstrip on the back of the TV, my current system is hue. I want to be able to select a movie in plex and have the light on the back of the TV to watch it. I have seen some apps that do this, but they seem to require you to have a phone monitoring the screen.

Currently I use plex thats an app on the samsung smart TV. I dont want to run on a laptop, but open to this running on a pine64 or rasp pi if there is a solution.

Best
Neil

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I bookmarked this some time ago because I thought it would be interesting, if I ever got around to doing it. It may be what you’re looking for.

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Thanks for the link. I think this is great for dimming the lights, might give it a go.

However, I wanted to be able to match the lights to whats playing on the screen and change colour etc…

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They talk about color in that thread, so maybe someday. As far as I know, that’s all anyone has done WRT Plex and Hue.

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Fingers crossed! :smiley:

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You’d have been better buying a Philips Ambilight TV :smiley:

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@adrianwi said:
You’d have been better buying a Philips Ambilight TV :smiley:

That is v. true! :smiley: