Building a DIY Ambilight on a Raspberry Pi 3 with an Auvidea B101
A working log of getting Hyperion-NG capture validated on old hardware. Splitter arrives tomorrow, LEDs not yet wired, but the capture pipeline is fully proven end to end. The goal Build a Govee/Philips-Hue-Sync style TV backlight that mirrors on-screen colors to an LED strip behind the TV. Source-agnostic (works with anything plugged into HDMI, not just smart TV apps), running fully local, no cloud, no subscription. The architecture Apple TV (4K) → HDCP-stripping HDMI splitter ─┬→ Samsung TV (4K passthrough) └→ Auvidea B101 (1080p) → Pi 3 (Hyperion-NG) → Ethernet → ESP32 (WLED) → SK6812 LED strip Three things matter about this architecture: ...