You can follow us on Twitter, or Instagram, and even like our Facebook page to keep yourself updated on all the latest from Microsoft, Google, Apple, and the Web. Installation is very straightforward and the app gets a lot of negativity for being too simple but it works well in my opinion. The voice commands are limited to what’s available for smart bulb controls (colour, brightness, toggle). That spares me from having a dedicated app on my phone and enables control via Alexa, Google Home and most importantly Tuya API.

Lytmi Fantasy 3 kit uses HDMI information to match the ambient light with what’s currently on your screen. Come join the discussion about home audio/video, TVs, projectors, screens, receivers, speakers, projects, DIY’s, product reviews, accessories, classifieds, and more! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. So I set up the lighting stip on the back of the TV, popped the TV panel back on its stand and hooked up the Lytmi Box to my TV through the Apple 4K TV box as when I connected it directly to my TV via the eARC input it did not work at all in the sync settings, you could still use the scene otpions to dispay lighting on the wall based on the pres set setting but there was no abaility to syn to what was on the TV screen until I hooked up through the Apple TV box, once it was connected through this anything played through the Apple TV box worked perfectly and the syn worked as well, this presented another problem at Netflix which is run through the TV itself would not sync to the LYTMI app so I connected up my Blueray player which is connected to the wifi and via its Netflix app capability I could watch Netflix with the sync mode working, little bit clunky and not ideal but at least I got it working, Still no joy on getting any sync to work from the TV for normal free to air programs or anything else unless run through the apple tv box, hopefully one day I will get to have this rectified and get it working properly because when it does via the 2 workarounds I have done the color syncing is fabulous and works a treat.Taking a look at various YouTube comparisons, the Lytmi sync-box always was a good and better alternative than the Govee one (better/more responsive picture sync, better color representation etc), but, like most sync-boxes out there was restricted in being HDMI 2. There are less expensive ways to add dynamic ambient light to a TV, but most of them come with some drawbacks. A friend has some version of the phillips hue equivalent and I'm always blown away at how much more immersive it makes whatever is on feel. As the popularity of smart TVs and digital services goes up, I found myself using HDMI ports less and less.

I understand that Philips has probably patented the integrated Ambilight on the tv itself but why doesn't Samsung, Sony, LG. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Yep I have been using it too even since the ability to change the white balance (everything appeared redish/pink) but now with low saturation and blueish white it looks great.

Audio support including Dolby Atmos is not the issue with these kits, but making sure they support the flavor of HDR of a given system is important.

Often there are ways around patents if you do it your own way; for instance, Ambilight has a lot of specifics about "u-shaped light guides", because it can't just say a bright strip since they don't control LED strip technology.

If you are using the HDMI eArc feature on the TV to use the TV as an audio source for built-in apps, the eARC support on the Lytmi is another concern. It's a shame, since I could think of some things that could be cool with additional signals included in an HDMI signal passed through to an external box.