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Dual Monitor Issue

Open Erikcb91 opened this issue 1 year ago • 6 comments

Hi, i'm trying to set up two different profiles on two different monitors, the thing is i created the zones and profiles are working properly, but as soon as i switch from the main monitor profile to the second monitor profile the lights just turn off and i have to restart the program so it captures the second monitor otherwise it's just turned off.

There is no problem on switching profiles, it works as it should, it's just the lights turn off, i tried both capturing methods, i tried DXhook and i don't know what else to do.

I don't think this is important, but the led strip is on my main monitor, there is no leds on my second, i just want the leds on my main monitor to light when i load the second monitor profile.

Hope anyone knows how to fix this, it's not a huge issue, but it's really annoying having to close the program and re open it every time i want to switch the profiles.

Thanks

Erikcb91 avatar Jul 01 '23 15:07 Erikcb91

Sorry I don't follow your description. You have LEDs only on one monitor, so what does the second profile do?

What is the "second monitor profile"? Are all monitors connected all the time? What does "switch from the main monitor profile to the second monitor profile" mean if you have LEDs only one the main monitor?

psieg avatar Aug 06 '23 13:08 psieg

With second monitor profile i mean a profile that captures the image on the second monitor, instead of on my main one

Erikcb91 avatar Aug 07 '23 18:08 Erikcb91

Hi, I want to ask, is it possible to have, two LEDs, on two monitors? how then I should use the program?, Can I set in profile which monitor should be used or can I run two instances of program? thanks

tarios avatar Jan 25 '24 18:01 tarios

https://github.com/psieg/Lightpack/issues/280 has a discussion about this. You can wire both monitor's LEDs on one device, or, if you have two devices that are not Lightpacks (or compatible) you can run two instances of it using --config-dir option

psieg avatar Feb 10 '24 10:02 psieg

Thank you for answering my question, I would like to ask one more questions if you don't mind. There is no support for ubuntu? I can not run it. It always crashes. There is no support for Android too? I want to make Ambilight for NVIDIA SHIELD TV Pro, or maybe you can advise, to me if there is some option to have ambilight from HDMI source I asked on insanelight.de web page but I have no answer, what should I buy when I want Ambilight on TV from 4k player with hdmi output.

thanks Miro.

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#280 https://github.com/psieg/Lightpack/issues/280 has a discussion about this. You can wire both monitor's LEDs on one device, or, if you have two devices that are not Lightpacks (or compatible) you can run two instances of it using --config-dir option

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tarios avatar Feb 11 '24 11:02 tarios

Sorry, I missed this.

I haven't tested it on Ubuntu but in theory it should work. Is there something being written to the log file?

No, screen grabbing on Android works completely different. There are hardware solutions that you can plug into HDMI that will do what you want, or complicated setups using HDMI capture cards, but not sure that's worth the effort.

psieg avatar Apr 12 '24 18:04 psieg