Capturing via framebuffer not working, solid color is fine

Hi,

My LED lights are connected to a Raspi running HyperionNG and I am currently using a sheild tv with the android capture to remotely send image information to the raspberry pi. The lights work fine in this case.

I am setting up a new HTPC with ubuntu 20.04. Got kodi installed and running fine. Now I got hyperion.ng installed and setup to send image data to the raspberry pi. That works in the sense that it *is* sending data but the lights are not reflecting what's being captured. Specifically only a subnet of lights are on, and they do not flicker or anything. Seems like it is static data.

My setup on the new PC is using framebuffer capture. That's the only option I have. To further test things, if I use the HyperionNG remote on the new PC to set a static color, that works fine. So the issue seems to be the framebuffer capture. I have confirmed that `/dev/fb0` has the right permissions for the user running hyperion (and confirmed I can read from that device) but not sure what else to check here. Any thoughts?

If there were a way to delete this thread I would (maybe I am missing it). It dawned on me that it might be the console framebuffer and not what is being output by Kodi, so I am going to dig into that

Co! Thank you - this actually does confirm my suspicion that `/dev/fb0` is actually the console output and not Kodi itself:

https://imgur.com/a/MtFBtzU

Does anyone have any idea how to capture whatever is actually on screen? In my case, Kodi?

I have an ubuntu server install and I installed kodi and start it up directly from the console.

Lord-Grey - AH! That explains it. Thank you very much. Yeah, I might just go that route. I was |_| this close to just installing xorg and going that route anyway.

Thanks!