fabsenet / adrilight

An Ambilight clone for Windows based sources - HTPC or just a normal PC
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Feature request - Multiple monitor support. #87

Open Guil-Baka opened 5 years ago

Guil-Baka commented 5 years ago

Hey there! I currently own 3x24 inch monitors at 1920x1080 resolution and I would like to know if theres any way to get it to support a triple monitor setup or higher count multi monitor setup.

I have made this work by using the surround feature in the NVIDIA Control Panel, it basically takes 3x 1920x1080 Monitors and makes it look like its a single big 5760x1080 monitor and then Adrilight shows it as a single monitor and all program features work fine, the thing is the Surround mode sucks at everything except gaming so if i wanted to watch movies and stuff i would have a lot of funky problems.

I saw someone make this work whit two monitors and two arduinos, heres the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQBOjNDq3S8 .

I took a look at the code, i'm quite new at programming and have very limited knowledge in C#, i'm gonna try doing some work and see if i can get results about this but for those whit more experience my suggestion is made :D .

Heres how the adrilight preview looks like in the 5760x1080 resolution.

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fabsenet commented 5 years ago

i think it is absolutely possible to introduce multimonitor support in adrilight, but i also think it is way to much work. think about all the ways the monitors could be setup, all the ways you could put leds around them and all the testing needed. I also cared about smooth migrations for all users.

you are asking for a feature which could easily need 100+ hours of solid work. not gonna happen, sorry. 😒