Beiträge von RaymondMouthaan

I am thinking about sending back the ezcap269 because of above reason and because of the issue regarding the lag. Moving over to the expensive HDFury Diva, but more questions rise up before ordering it...

• Is it possible to use the Diva in combination with HyperionNG and my current setup?
• Will the "AppleTV switch back to 1080p" issue been solved using a Diva?
• Is it possible to use my current Arduino Nano + ws2815 ledstrip (which is already perfectly attached to the Sony Bravia) with the Diva?
• How would my setup look like when a Diva is taken into account, do I need other boxes as well?

Apologies for all these questions! I just want have a nicely working diy ambilight setup, without spending more money on devices which are disappointing and frustrating.

Perhaps guys like @frodo and @Claudio Branco can help me out

Help, tips and advise is more than appreciated!

Playing around for many hours and a lot of frustration, unfortunately no succes on the issue regarding Apple TV 4K and the ezcap269. As soon as the ezcap269 is powered on (by connecting the usb cable to the raspberry pi) the Apple TV "detects" the ezcap269 as being a "1080p" device and switches back to 1080p. At this moment the blue led on the ezcap269 turns on indicating the device is capturing the video signal.

What I don't understand is why the Apple TV "sees" the ezcap269 as a 1080p device, instead of a 4K device. I mean the HDMI input of the ezcap269 supports 4K, so it should be seen as a 4K device right? :whistle:.

Sounds acceptable for personal usage, hopefully a more permanent solution will come to HyperionNG soon, meanwhile I can adopt your solution and recompile from src. But first more importantly I need to solve my other issue, do you have any ideas about that?

@rasp, So I assume you modified the cpp as above and recompiled to make it faster, but its not the final solution adopted into HyperionNG?

@rasp and other, today I received the ezcap269, I flashed the latest firmware and replace the switch and grabber from my previous setup. On the RPI3B I executed the commands:

/usr/bin/v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl contrast=220
/usr/bin/v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl saturation=255
/usr/bin/v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl brightness=128
/usr/bin/v4l2-ctl --set-ctrl hue=16

The AV Receiver output goes to the input of the ezcap269, while the output of the ezcap269 goes to the Sony Bravia. All sources (AppleTV 4K, Vero4K+ (Kodi) and PS4) are connected to the AV Receiver. The HyperionNG version I installed is the precompiled version from here https://github.com/hyperion-pr…-alpha.6-Linux-armv7l.deb, All settings are per default, only the Plaform Capture is disabled and instead I enabled USB Capture and left all settings for it as default. Led Hardware is configured as Adalight where Output path is /ttyUSB0 and the LED layout has the settings corresponding with my ledstrip.

When the AppleTV 4K is setup to output 4K SD, the signal is send the AV to the ezcap269 and to the TV, while HyperionNG gets the signal to control the ledstrip. So far so good. Then I switch to the Vero4K+, since Kodi is setup the output 1080p, the AV receiver sends 1080p to the ezcap269 and also to the TV. In both cases the colours of the ledstrip look pretty much the same as the colours on TV. I do notice some delay between the colours on TV and the Ledstrip, but this issue might be solved on the master of HyperionNG? (I read a couple of pages back you noticed the same issue).

Beside the delay, I faced another issue, but this probably not related to HyperionNG and perhaps not even related to ezcap269. So this might be off-topic. But when I switch back to the AppleTV as a source (where it was Vero4K / Kodi at 1080p before), the AppleTV switches to 1080p as output instead of 4K SD. And the option to select 4K SD is not available. For some reason the AppleTV no longer detects a device attached to it which supports 4K, while it could before. The only way to get the AppleTV back to 4K SD, is to remove the ezcap269 from the setup and directly connect the output of the AV receiver to the TV. Switching forward and backward between AppleTV and Vero4K (Kodi) without ezcap269, works perfectly fine, but once I put back in the ezcap269, AppleTV looses 4K, this makes the whole ambilight setup unusable Hopefully one of you guys have an idea how to solve this.

Yes, certainly. As we speak I have the pre-compile 2.0-alpha.6 running, because the master branch gave me errors (https://github.com/hyperion-project/hyperion.ng/issues/881) while starting it. Also the Hyperion App for iOS gave weird behaviour on the master. Solid colours did not work :facepalm:. So that made me switch back to the pre-compile .deb.

OMG, you r right! .. I was confused, but indeed there is no need for a second HDMI output since it connects directly to the raspberry pi where Hyperion runs :). I'll order it asap and replace the grabber, hdmi2av and splitter. Ill let you know when I got it.

Thanks for helping me out here, very much appreciated!

Hey @rasp, probably I am looking at the wrong ezcap269 somehow :thumbsdown:, all sites (ie ) that I visited show only 1 hdmi output. Perhaps you have a link where I can buy it?

@rasp, suppose I order the Ezcap 269, how do I connected it in my current setup? See the attachment (https://hyperion-project.org/attachments/img_2590-jpeg.2546/) of my previous post. I don't see two outputs on the Ezcap 269, one to go to the TV and one to go to Hyperion?

Perhaps you are available for chat at Hyperion discord? https://discord.gg/uSVJgj

@rasp, thanks for your reply!
So basically I have to options, either buy an Ezcap 269 + latest firmware + software tune on the hyperion server or a HDFury? Which of the HDFury products would do the job right? Diva https://www.hdfury.eu/shop/hdfurydiva/ , Vertex 2 https://www.hdfury.eu/shop/hdfury-vertex-2/ or maybe another?

Do I still need the HdmiAV + grabber and only replace the splitter with either an Ezcap or HDFury?

sorry for all the questions, just want to make sure before placing an order.

Hi all,

As a huge fan of Hyperion, I recently upgraded my home cinema system to a 4K setup. Now I am looking for a good solution for hyperion to control my ledstrip and after reading this thread I got confused which HDMI splitter I should buy.

My setup includes the following gear:

• Sony Bravia A8G 4K oled TV
• Marantz SR7013 AV Surround Receiver
• Apple TV 4K
• Vero4K+
• Sony Playstation 4

All devices are connected to the SR7013 thru HDMI and acts as a HDMI switch, it has an HDMI output (arc), which goes to a HDMI splitter (UHD 4K). From the HDMI splitter output 1 goes directly to the Sony Bravia, while output 2 goes to the HDMI AV. From the HDMI AV a connection goes to a grabber, which is connected to a Raspberry PI 3B. This RPI is the Hyperion server, running the latest compiled HyperionNG. Attached to this RPI is an Arduino Nano, with a sketch installed, which controls a ws2815 (12V) ledstrip attached to the Sony Bravia and has 267 leds (top: 85, left: 49, right: 49, bottom: 84 and a gap of 1 led).

After running some Hyperion Effects all looks good, the leds work well. However, the HDMI splitter (without scaling) and HDMI AV are from my previous 1080p setup and need to be replaced by a better solution to support 4K, HDR etc. Most important is that from source to TV the best picture quality is displayed. Secondly that all sources are working with Hyperion, so that the ledsstrip works. I've added a drawing of how all is connected.

I've read about the ezcap269, Vertex Fury and Vertex Diva but is unclear to me if those sollutions work.

Any advice is very much welcome :).