hyperion.ng VS Adalight-FastLED

You can DIY your own with a IC-based RGB/RGBW strip and a rPi or x86 PC + ESP microcontroller using software like Hyperion or HyperHDR, combined with WLED.

You might be able to run an app on your TV, but unless you root it, you will be limited to DRM-free streams. If you have a spare Wyze and HDMI capture card, this is probably the easiest way to grab the video stream. There's no need to run piOS; Hyperion will run fine under Linux, MacOS or Windows using the latest release.

What other ambient light implementations are out there? A cursor look suggest hyperion.ng maybe?

Yeah the github page is a much better starting point.

Creating an ambilight effect requires you to have something that can read the screen to determine what lights to show, so that basically requires decoding and processing a video stream in real time which is beyond the capabilities of most typical MCU's like those used for WLED. There is a project called Hyperion but that requires a full Raspberry Pi and a USB HDMI capture card. There are lots of tutorials for this on YouTube

This is the official repo: https://github.com/hyperion-project/hyperion.ng

Any reason you decided to "reinvent the wheel" instead of using an existing solution like Prismatic or Hyperion?

Software and Hardware used: I am using Adalight Fastled (https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED) with a WS2812B strip.

Run Adalight with Prismatik.

The sketch I used for the DIY Ambilight can be found here: https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED/blob/master/Arduino/LEDstream_FastLED/LEDstream_FastLED.ino

Use this code instead. Define the LED type, data, and clock pins at the top.

Of course, here it is: https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED

I have uploaded a sketch Adalight-FastLED to an Arduino Mega. The following description is the requirement for my c# app that is using a slightly modified Ardity to send byte[] instead of strings to the Arduino.

another warning: the off the shelf kits come with a relatively low baked-in baudrate (115200, but confirm with your seller), this might limit your LED framerate, read this, so don't set your software to 360-noscope-fps capture right away... so either you are fine with what you'll get and you leave it at that or you want a higher rate, in which case you'll need to flash it with any other arduino ambilight sketch (such as this) with values that work for your board (any arduino ambilight tutorial on the subject will do)

I used this: https://github.com/dmadison/Adalight-FastLED If you need any further help, dm me. I'm electrician, so I didn't need to learn how the electronics work.