Hello,
Hope you're doing well! One of my long-time dreams are to have my own Ambilight system (without buying a Philips TV). This year, I'm diving down into electronics and it's super excited - but very confusing at times.
I am trying to set up my own Ambilight system for my LG CX. But it's just not working. I have also looked up some topics on this form regarding the SK6812. Unfortunately, I can't find the solution - I am possibility doing something wrong. So, I want to ask you guys if you could help me out with this one. Embrace the noobness
Hardware
- Raspberry pi 4 - 2 GB RAM
- Sandisk Extreme 32 GB SD Card
- HyperHDR Version 18.0.0.0
- 5 meter BTF-Lightning SK6812 RGBW LED Strip (Model: BTF-5V-060L-B) 60 leds per meter
- Mean Well LRS-100-5 AC power supply brick - 18A 90W 5V/DC
Set up
- My Raspberry pi is powered by it's own 5V official Raspberry power supply
- Mean Well is powered by it's own 5V cable.
- My Mean Well powers the LED strip.
- I've enabled the SPI interface
- Cable connection is soldered but not final
- I haven't mounted the leds to the tv - I first want to make sure that they work
- LED hardware controller is SK6812spi
- Data is on GPIO 10
The issue
- Currently the biggest problem is that I have made the connection with the LEDS and they change lights. It only powers the first 28 LEDS and the colour switch is random. It doesn't seem that the data transfers correctly.
Controller settings
Hardware LED Count - 150
RGB byte order - GBR
Refresh time - 10000 ms
SPI path /dev/spider0.0
Baudrate - 6000000
White LED algorithm - White off
I'm super annoyed because I have the feeling that I'm super close to get it done but something is just not working. Could it be the power source? Or are my settings very off?