Home Theater IR Controlled Lighting

Home theater lighting showing various effects - controlled by my Harmony One remote and a Buffalo IR repeater system.

Music is "What You Want" by Kevin Macleod

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• urprey
• home theater
• lighting
• windows media center
• infinitiv 4
• rope lighting
• theatre

[mkohman]

Dude, you have an amazing setup! Just one thing I didn't like .. Windows Media Centre :) you should be using XBMC please google it if you never heard of it.. Its the future of Media Centre.. Nothing can touch it .. XBMC. :)

[URPREY]

@mkohman I've been using XBMC since I hacked my first Xbox almost 10 years ago. The limitation in XBMC is support for live tv; with Windows Media Center I have one htpc and a 4 channel cablecard tuner acting as a whole-home DVR. Each tv has an Xbox 360 which allows us to watch live and recorded television as well as all the movies, music, and pictures on my 8TB server.

XBMC is very nice, but it can't do all of that (yet) :-)

[RazHMac]

How did you do the whole "Pressing play turns the lights off" with the harmony one? That was really nice!

[URPREY]

@RazHMac I use a Harmony remote, and you have to set up a sequence under the "customize buttons" section. The sequence for play turn lights off sends two commands: one to the dvd player to play the movie, and another to the lighting to tell it to switch to a scene (only the screen backlighting). I have another video showing the IR controlled lighting and screen from a few years ago

[angeltechdude]

This is really awesome. how much was it all im working on somthing similar like this.

[URPREY]

@angeltechdude the IR repeater setup was around $200 or so

[bigdogkropp]

Thinking of using making a Wilsonart screen like you have. In the video it appears there is some discoloration in the lower right quadrant of the screen. Is that hotspotting?? Thanks.

[CharliZmoma]

That looks so good, u did a great job! Now just come and do mine...lol