callmenoodles / ambeelight

Ambeelight is a cross-platform ambient light solution for Yeelight.

Ambeelight

Ambeelight is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, macOS) ambient light solution for Yeelight. It will update Yeelight devices to display average color of your primary display, creating a nice atmosphere when watching videos or gaming.

Create Installation

Manually put res in the output folder with the .exe when installing on Windows.

pyinstaller main.py -n ambeelight -w -D --hidden-import='PIL._tkinter_finder' -i "res/icon.ico"

Troubleshooting

Failed to Connect (VPN?)

This error message occurs when Ambeelight cannot connect to a bulb on the specified IP address.

• Check whether you entered the correct IP address
• Ambeelight could have issues when you have a VPN running, either turn it off or try split tunneling

ambeelight's Issues

Clean code

• Separate GUI code using files and classes

Wayland support

mss is used to take screenshots but when using this on Wayland, it results in:

mss.exception.ScreenShotError: XGetImage() failed

Delay

There seems to be a delay between the screen change and bulb update in the run function.

UI freezes on interval

• Look into a better threading solution
• Loading indicator