Ambient light Application

v.b.aleksandrov

About this app

Adaptive background lighting Ambient light, without exaggeration, an amazing technology. With its adaptive illumination, eyes become less tired when you watch TV in the dark. Also the presence effect enhances, the image viewing area extends, etc. Ambient light is applicable not only to video and photo content, but also to games. The implementation of such a feature on the Android TV set-top box or Android TV based on Android OS above 5.1 (Lollipop) is now possible using the Ambient light Application for Android program.

!!! It is important to know !!!
The picture from the TV tuner is not processed at the Android OS level, the backlight with regular tv channels will not work. The backlight works only in Android OS applications that do not use protected content. 4K performance depends only on the capabilities of the equipment. Unfortunately, programs such as YouTube and Netflix use protected content, the backlight in such programs will not work. This may not work properly on the latest Android 9 Xiaomi firmwares.

Ambient light Application for Android is one of the few programs for Android based devices that allows you to implement Ambient light backlighting directly on your smart TV with no need of PC. There are three operating modes, that are:

SINGLE COLOR MODE – his mode allows you to include all the backlighting with one color selected in the program settings. This mode suits well as a night room lighting, surprisingly changing the familiar interior.

COLOR EFFECT MODE – This is the mode for displaying color effects. Dynamic backlighting can change colors, depending on which preset effect you have selected in the settings.

SCREEN CAPTURE MODE – This is probably the most in-demand mode of the backlight, which allows you to change its colors depending on what content is currently displayed on the screen.

Ratings and reviews

Seem to work well but with some lag and stuttering.... I bought the full kit from aliexpress for 5m 60 per meter and find it is very stuttering in its transitions. I have 262 led's and it just isn't happy. Could I request a feature to ignore every other led to increase performance. I.e. just address every other one? For the single colour option, its great to address all but it really suffers with all 262. As a test, i changed the horizontal and vertical led numbers to trick it into using half and whilst naturally the alignment was wrong, the performance was perfect.

Really great app! I was looking up Hue HDMI sync box and came across this app and it just saved me a fortune when I just got some D1 mini and strips laying around. Although when having the test background on and trying to adjust the settings, the app slows down and not very responsive. Not sure if it's the app or just the TV is slow. It would be great if the dev can add MQTT feature to remotely control the light when the TV is off.

The program itself works, however it does not work in amy meaningful way. On my Redmi X65 it runs and captures the screen only in the operating system, but not video playing, regardless of source, HDMI, network or video from any of the services. Seems I cannot get a refund anymore either, as took enough time messing about to set this up that refund button disappeared. Very disappointed. It would be great if it worked, but it doesn't.

What's new

Added support for Android 14/15. Bug fixes.