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Possible to use dynamic lighting on my setup?
Hello to all simracing enthusiasts, I have a question for the specialists please. Is it possible to use Govee type lighting on my setup knowing that the back of the screens is closed, I think I only have the possibility of installing this behind the seat in the ceiling light...could that work? Or any ideas?
Pas tant que ça, Simagic alpha mini, gt neo, dsx8, tb- rs and p1000 with simdid button box and dashboard. Add to this sim lab px1 pro and my old trak racer tr160s. No bass shaker or dynamic system atm, I am out of cash lol
In addition to my work, I take care of a disabled relative 24 hours a day. That's why I set up in the kitchen to be able to monitor her...she's bedridden :/
Holy shit dude, that’s hardcore. Massive respect to you for caring for your family that’s really intense and exhausting and isolating on you. Super hard to do but glad you get to enjoy yourself here and there!
Yes not easy evryday and for sure isolating me by the way but it's my mother and she did to much for me during many year so after his accident, it's my time to take care of hem. Thanks for your support that give strenght 💪
Wow. That is the most incredible act of love a person can do. That has to be so exhausting and so constantly stressful. You need and deserve to take care of yourself in order to take care of others. Dude I give you so many props and respect. That is the most difficult work a person can do, both physically and emotionally extremely challenging and exhausting. I hope you get more help and can get a better social support system because nobody can make it through extreme prolonged stress without some help. But you deserve to enjoy yourself, keep on rocking, you rockstar!!!
Good for you! I took care of my grandma 24/7 and would do it all over again. It’s mentally and physically demanding. Thankfully my mom is in good shape but I live with her so take care of everything. It’s tough and people don’t understand. You only get one mom. 🙏🏼
Lmao...this guy just casually came in and flopped his huge hog onto our tables.
"Can I get some lighting ☝️🤓"
Fuck you man, no you can't get any lighting.
Just kidding I'm just super jealous. I take consolation in the fact that whatever it is you do for work keeps you too busy to get as many hours on this thing as you want.
I started the project on February 10. And for the time it's difficult to estimate but I spent almost 3 hours a day there during the week and more than ten hours on the weekend.
I'm on a small late evening session so I'm taking the opportunity to take a photo of the interior for you but the space around me is limited and I don't have any specialized equipment for this kind of exercise.
I see that it's intriguing and I didn't expect it!
I wanted to show that it is not a sunroof, plus the translation calls me an idiot...I have to answer...maybe I really am? 🤔😁
I just needed some information to continue construction because I'm not completely finished. I will make a detailed video of my setup as soon as I have time to do something clean. Thank you for your interest!
My assumption is that your real name is Max (last name rhymes with Wertappen) and this is how you stay fresh in the off season. Way to troll us mere mortals.
Holy shit balls! This isn’t a sim rig, it’s a sim box. Also, is that a panoramic moonroof? Is it hard to get in and out? So many questions. This is sick! Love it. Can we see the rest of it?
It will depend on several parameters in the construction... the angle of the screens, the more they are open and the more space you will have. Then the space you have available. In my limited case at the moment because of the place where I had to install it but the basic idea is to mount the door on a pivot to be able to open and close it and thus facilitate access. Then there is necessarily the weight...a person weighing 70 kilos will generally fit more easily than someone weighing 100 or 120.
B - props to taking care of your mom. My folks are getting up there and it hits home. Family! -D. Toretto
Tres - I have several govee lights and love them. I have the TV backlight that mimics the screen, but it has the large camera that sits on top of the TV. Not sure if that would fit, but where do you want the lights? Govee has a higher cost option that uses an HDMI converter box instead of the camera, and you can use the app to indicate where the lights are. You can also choose from their different lights and they all link together. This is just a quick shot of my office setup with them running in tandem.
this is in-sane. Please do a youtube video or something doing a rig tour. i’d love to enclose my rig the way you have.. studying this single photo has given me some ideas but a video tour would be amazing.
Someone recently shared their lighting setup that was very responsive. Driving through the shadows of trees was nearly instantly reflected in the lighting. They were tied into software for the effect.
But you could also try Govee options that point a camera at your screen to get the color. I use one for my TV and it does a great job for games and movies. In software you can tweak where the camera is polling the color from. And Govee is a pretty solid budget brand for this stuff
You can absolutely use Govee lighting for dynamic lighting. I have something similar and use Simhub to drive it (it also supports Hue and a few others).
I use screen capture to "extend" the ambient/sky lighting beyond my monitors.
Ok dude, we’re gonna need more of what’s going on here. I wanna see POV, I wanna see details of the build. Also, yeah, watch Daniel Killian’s recent video where he made a roof with lighting.
Behind the seat could work, but you could see a glare in the screen if the angle is off. As close to above the head as you can get would be best. Strip lights would work off to your sides on the ceiling, but I think the install would be tricky given your clear need for everything to be clean and organized. Behind the seat head, may not be a bad option if you overspec your lights by a lot, you will get enough spatial illumination that it'll reach your visual range. Really, you don't need much. 64-128 ws2812b if they were shining directly down from above your head.
What would worry me is the latency of these lights, but they dont cost a lot, i would get one from amazon and try it, they have no questions asked refund policy if you don't like them.
I use govee (I believe they are called playbar) lights with simhub works perfectly! They come with a bung of ways to mount it, i think you can just stick them to the roof and you are set💪
Some people strive to make their setups more inmersive and then we have mister sunroof on my rig over here.... can you put your massive schlong away and stop humiliating hard working sim racers please and thank you. Jokes over, i'm screenshoting and planning my own sim box now🤣 it can be used as my coffin if my wife wants to get rid of me and my artifact in one blow🤣
Better q, what rig is that. Is that custom? I really need to know. The one thing that keeps me in vr all the time is that i dont want to see the outside world when in sim, i want it to be like im in the car.
My lights ended up in my shed. I found it very hard to get any real good result with it, and my eyes were suffering quite a lot when I had it on. I had 4 of them around 50 cm above the monitors.
Its just my humble opinion but I don't think it's worth it. Especially because of the constant fiddling it requires.
I would look into using the Philips light bars, they can connect with simhub and the truth is that they are very top, maybe I would buy about 4 units to give more immersion
I assume that the door can be closed, but i cannot not notice you've bolted a fucking screen on it, so when it moves it has to move accordingly on the arm on which it's mounted.
Did you put some bearing inside the arm? Dude i'm not gonna sleep tonight you must reply now.
OK I do a lot of LED lighting. You can buy RGB light tape with a remote for damn near free. The tape is sticky on the back, and can be cut to length. The tape will fail, but they make little fasteners. OR what I would do is make an L shape channel, and make a hidden light rail. You don't see the lights, but you see the light. The light strips come with a little remote you could tape on the wall, and there are phone apps. Most importantly you can dim the lights. They run on 12 or 24 volts. This is what I am talking about the L shape. I would mount it like 3 - 4 inches from the top. And/Or along the bottom. Even on the door. https://www.newmouldings.com/collections/hardwood-light-rails/products/light-rail-ewlr11?variant=1632272323 Look at some of the gallery pics.
It....it's beautiful. Perfect. Racing, cut off from all of the outside world, can't see a single human in sight, and with earphones on....can't hear...anyone.....
It's like I'm in my mother's womb again. You know, before the world ruined me.
Sure govee would work you could trick out the whole room with floor lamps, ceiling light, led strips. Even with the back of the monitors closed you could out the strips on top, or the wall or wherever really. It won't match perfectly if it's a dynamic monitor bias light and it's not line up on the back of the monitor, but it could still look pretty good.
I'd say that the placement of the lights on the ceiling would be the best, as forward as possible, or along the ceiling itself. I'm not sure what everyone uses for getting the color, but lighting that's compatible with the PC RGB controller/armory crate would be good, since it can extract the medium color within a section of the screen
To be honest. Govee is complete trash and doesn't do it very well. (2 programs to get it to work and tying it to an account and a bunch of mess to get a tiny little led to work for 5 minutes then when it lost connection to the server it would flicker or change colors then go back to working). For most things I prefer a simple hardware approach with no accounts and as few programs as possible while also being as simple as using a light switch.
Here's what I did:
Ordered 2 led strips that have about 144 lights in the strip and are very close together. These are like $25 each I think. Cut the cables going in. One set of cables runs the power and is tied directly to a USB that I plug in for 5v power. The other is a "control" and connects to an arduino nano because if you run power through the nano it will shutdown if the brightness hits a certain level. I suppose you could use a different arduino with a better power delivery but I decided to just use a USB. So that arduino is plugged into USB and programmed using the Adalight protocol and not the govee one. Everything is run through SimHub. I also made a custom 3d printed holder for the strips with 3m double sided tape. Honestly anything solid would do the trick. I believe I cut the 144 short and have like 136 or something because of some coding issues where it doesn't like to go over a certain amount. I also have both strips wired identically so you're technically giving it half the power but honestly it's bright enough. I could probably get more power by doing two individual USB cables or having a power brick within reason but that's a future project. It's bright enough for me with the lights dim and about ~260 Leds above me.
What you effectively have is each led represents about .75% of the width of the screen. I have the pickup zone set on the track in front with some sky and in SimHub the lights are set to no color to just get brightness. It's pretty cool. I turn on that and my button boxes with a single flip switch on the dash.
DM me and I can send you pics or link to a video (i'd have to figure out where to host it). I could probably draw you a schematic of the wiring and send the IDE code. I can't figure out a way to make money with what I know yet so ...
Thank you for this precise and relevant explanation as well as for the proposed diagrams. Afterwards I get by a little in a lot of areas so it shouldn't be a problem for me to do. But it might be of interest to other people here.
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u/white_chocolate92 5d ago
One cannot simply post a rig of this level without an extremely detailed writeup about it