Boblightd.md

Using the boblightd plugin

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In order to use the boblightd you need to compile and install boblight. This tutorial shows you how to that.

Build and install boblight

The project page of boblight can be found here.

Install all needed packages:

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install build-essential subversion portaudio19-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libxrender-dev

Download the source code using:

$ svn checkout http://boblight.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ boblight

Configure the project:

$ cd boblight
$ ./configure

Note: install the missing packages if configure will not finish successfully!

Build everything:

$ make -j9

Note: the -j argument specifies the number of jobs (commands) to run simultaneously. With n CPU's you can run n+1 jobs.

Install the binaries, libs and includes:

$ sudo make install

Run boblightd

Create your boblight config file and copy it to /etc/boblight.conf.

Boblight conf wiki

Now you can start the boblight daemon:

$ sudo boblightd

This daemon has to run, otherwise the boblight-plugin from guh will not work. The plugin tries to connect to the daemon on localhost:19333. The configured light devices from the /etc/boblight.conf device will appear automatically in the guh device list.

See also: Compile guh with boblightd support.