nick2525/lightpack

Lightpack and Prismatik legacy open repo

Lightpack project with Prismatik flavour

Table of content:
  [Short description] (https://github.com/Atarity/Lightpack#lightpack-project-with-prismatik-flavour)
  [Useful URLs] (https://github.com/Atarity/Lightpack#useful-urls)
  [Build Prismatik with Windows] (https://github.com/Atarity/Lightpack#prismatik-build-instructions-for-windows)
  [Build with Linux] (https://github.com/Atarity/Lightpack#build-instructions-for-linux)
  [Build with OS X] (https://github.com/Atarity/Lightpack#build-instructions-for-os-x)
  [Lightpack Firmware building] (https://github.com/Atarity/Lightpack#fimware-building-instructions)

Lightpack is an fully open-source and simple hardware implementation of the backlight for any computer. It's USB content-driving ambient lighting system.

Prismatik is an open-source software we buid to control Lightpack device. It grabs screen, analize picture, calculate resulting colors and provide soft and gentle lighting with Lightpack device. Moreother, you can handle another devices with Prismatik such as Adalight, Ardulight or even Alienware LightFX system.

#####Main features:

• Fully open-source under GPLv3 (hardware, software, firmware)
• Cross-platform GUI (Qt)
• USB HID (no need to install any drivers)
• The device is simple to build (just Do-It-Yourself)

#####Useful URLs:

• [Project mothership] (http://code.google.com/p/lightpack/)
• [Binary downloads] (http://code.google.com/p/lightpack/downloads/list)
• Wiki with DIY and documentation [ENG] (http://code.google.com/p/light-pack/w/list) / [RUS] (http://code.google.com/p/lightpack/w/list)
• [Post new issue] (http://code.google.com/p/lightpack/issues/list)
• [Team] (http://code.google.com/p/lightpack/people/list)

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###Prismatik build instructions for Windows ####Prerequisites:

• Qt SDK
• Python 2.7
• Microsoft DirectX SDK
• POSIX shell utilities MSYS for example. Make sure PATH environment variable is set for the utilities (Run → sysdm.cpl → Advanced → Environment Variable → Edit PATH system variable (C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin; for example), path should points directly on the utilities so utilities are available without any subdirectories)

####Build process:

1. Set all paths in <repo>/software/build-vars.prf (<repo>/software/build-vars.prf.original is example of such config)
2. Open PythonQt project with Qt Creator: <repo>/sofware/pythonqt/pythonqt.pro and build the project, this will build generator sub-project and generate code for further build, and it will be stopped with error, don't worry, it only needs to run qmake to include generated code to the project
3. Make sure you ran qmake against whole project and build PythonQt one more time
4. Close PythonQt, normally it will not be needed anymore, build Prismatik project

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###Build instructions for Linux ####Prerequisites: You will need the following packages, usually all of them are in distro's repository:

• gtk2-engines-pixbuf
• python2.7-dev
• libqt4-dev
• g++
• libusb-dev
• libudev-dev

####Build process:

1. Set version of python in <repo>/Software/build-vars.prf (<repo>/Software/build-vars.prf.original is example of such config)
2. Make sure you have QTDIR environment variable set
3. Go to <repo>/Software/PythonQt and run build.sh
4. Build Prismatik project
5. Add a rule for UDEV. See comments from <repo>/93-lightpack.rules for how to do it.

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###Build instructions for OS X ####Prerequisites:

• Qt SDK (4.8.3+)
• MacOSX 10.7.sdk
• Qt libs (macports.org)
• LibUSB

Whole dependencies list for Prismatik 5.9.1:

• QtCore.framework
• QtGui.framework
• QtNetwork.framework
• QtOpenGL.framework
• QtSql.framework
• QtSvg.framework
• QtUiTools.framework
• QtWebKit.framework
• QtXml.framework
• QtXmlPatterns.framework
• libPythonQt_QtAll.1.dylib
• libPythonQt.1.dylib
• libsqlite3.0.dylib
• libusb-1.0.0.dylib
• libz.1.dylib

####Build process:

1. Download and unpack 4.8.3+ Qt SDK from www.qt-project.org
2. Configure and build Qt with sequence of commands: ./configure -opensource -nomake examples -nomake tests -no-webkit, then make -j 4, and make install. It will take some time
3. Building PythonQt: go to <repo>/Software/PythonQt in repo master branch and sequently run qmake and make all
4. Copy libs we build at step 3 from folder "lib" into /usr/lib/
5. Build Prismatik project

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###Fimware building instructions

1. Install [AVR GCC Toolchain] (http://avr-eclipse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/The_AVR_GCC_Toolchain)
2. Install dfu-programmer for firmware upload with $ sudo apt-get install dfu-programmer
3. Install [Eclipse IDE] (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) for C/C++ Developers
4. Install [AVR Eclipse Plugin] (http://avr-eclipse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Plugin_Download)
5. Create new "Makefile project from existing code"

• Set "Existing Code Location" to "Lightpack/Firmware/"
• Set "Project Name" to "Lightpack"
• Choose AVR-GCC Toolchain and press "finish"

6. Reboot device to bootloader and type $ cd Lightpack/Firmware/, then $ make dfu

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Please let us know if you find mistakes, bugs or errors.
Post new issue : http://code.google.com/p/lightpack/issues/list