thanks for your reply - i'm using https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B08GR1LWT2?tag=hyperioforum-21&ie=UTF8&psc=1
what's your latency with the pi zero?
(i already lowered the resolution to the minimum of 640x480)
I'll try root asap - thanks
Your grabber seems like a more advanced one, maybe that's why latency is high, I am using an ordinary AV Grabber (Logilink), latency is fine IMO, how do you measure latency anyway?
I'm a newbie
I'm aware that hyperion will run on startup but how would i set it to run as root?
Thanks
PS: i meanwhile found out that the Pi Zero is way too slow for Ambilight - i was just curious (and will try again)
I'm using a pi zero as well, it's not that slow, you could always lower the resolution from the USB grabber (you don't need large resolution anyway).
In order to set root for startup, make sure you set:
User=rootinside /etc/systemd/system/hyperiond@.service file
Btw, what grabber are you using?
Which version of hyperion are you using? I've been having problems with hyperion-ng alpha 9, try alpha8.
Also try running hyperiond as root.