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Tue May 29, 2018 9:55 am
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The question I wonder about is just how much fiddly control you want of the TV LEDs. I find that color changing during TV time is pretty distracting, though I've never had one of those controllers that matches to the screen colors.
I bought the wrong kind of LEDs when I was first trying to make a Fibaro controller work, and I repurposed them to behind my TV. They have their own remote, which I used to set it to a deep red. I power it from one of the TV's USB connections, and all that happens is it turns on and is red when the TV is on. This was a cheapo LED I probably spent $15 on and is 2x the size I need for my 50" TV.
So think about whether whatever else you imagine doing with Indigo control of your TV LEDs is worth the extra cost. I'm all about evaluating every new purchase of mine in terms of Indigo integration, but if that TV LED strip was suddenly, magically integrated 100% with my Indigo set up, I doubt I would make it do more than power up when motion is detected in the TV room. Then again I don't typically sit around listening to music in there. If I did, I might want that light show.
SmartThings refugee, so happy to be on Indigo. Monterey on a base M1 Mini w/Harmony Hub, Hue, DomoPad, Dynamic URL, Device Extensions, HomeKitLink, Grafana, Plex, uniFAP, Fantastic Weather, Nanoleaf, LED Simple Effects, Bond Home, Camect.