About the HDMI capture board

d8ahazard / glimmr

Glimmr is a .Net Core application to synchronize Ambient LED strips with Hue Lights, Lifx Bulbs, and Nanoleaf Panels

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About the HDMI capture board #45

Closed xfce closed 7 months ago

xfce commented 1 year ago

Hi I Can't find the info about the HDMI capture board, does this is a closed hardware board? If I only have a raspberry Pi or install the software on PC how can I play? Thanks

RobertD502 commented 1 year ago

The HDMI capture is done with a simple USB HDMI capture card such as this. If you are planning on installing Glimmr on your PC then you can bypass the HDMI splitter and HDMI USB capture altogether as Glimmr can grab the screen that is directly connected to the PC running Glimmr.

If you want to use Glimmr to capture video from another device (Apple TV, Nvidia Shield, etc), then you'll need to use a HDMI splitter as well as a USB HDMI capture device.