coolmule0 / wizscreen

Control Wiz Bulbs with the contents of your computer screen

WizScreen

Set your Wiz Bulb to match the colors on screen. Finds the dominant on-screen color and requests the bulb change accordingly. Fastest response time on the order of 0.2s from testing.

How to use

Executables

Executables are distributed within this repository for windows and unix-like systems. This is the easiest option to get started quickly.

They can be found in the most recent build by visiting the Actions tab, selecting the top most build with a green tick next to the name, and selecting from the Artifacts section.

Simply run the executable to start the program. Ctrl+C to quit. Run from the command line to specify extra command arguments

From Source

Download the code. Ensure you have a modern python installed, and pipenv. Then in this downloaded folder run pipenv install to obtain the correct environment. Finally pipenv run main.py to execute the script.

Command Arguments

Specify additional command arguments to change default values, or change certain behaviour.

Argument	Sequential Argument Example	Description
-h, --help	-	show this help message and exit
-d, --debug	-	Prints more verbose messages. Sets to INFO level
-s, --search	-	Search for available bulbs, print IP addresses, and exit
-ip IP	192.168.1.66	known IP of bulb to use
--broadcast_space BROADCAST_SPACE	192.168.1.225	Search over this space of IP for possible bulbs. Use when IP of desired bulb unknown
-b [0-255], --brightness [0-255]	70	minimum desired brightness of bulb
-r RATE, --rate RATE	20	refresh rate of color change (hz)
-m MONITOR --monitor MONITOR	1	Monitor number to use
-q [1-10], --quality [1-10]	5	Quality of dominant color calculation. 1: highest, 10: lowest
--screen_percent [1-100]	60	Amount of screen to consider, in percentage. Chances are that things around the edge of the screen do not need consideration
-d, --display	-	Show a window of expected color captured from screen, and sent to bulb

wizscreen's Issues

Output to Bulb has too much White in It

Seems to work well except when Wiz bulb lights up, Initial color momentarily matches predominant color on screen then goes to a very washed out color containing mostly white. is there a way to modify code to retain the initial momentary color and not wash it out with white? . For example, if I make my Desktop totally red then when Wiz bulb illuminates, the initial color is a deep red , then it switches to almost white with just a slight tint of red. I am not a coder and a newbie at python so a working version of this would be most helpful. Thank you very much!

Crash for very white screencaptures

When the captured image is white, ColorThief crashes (see fengsp/color-thief-py#25). Needs to be below (250,250,250)