Category: media center

Squeezebox with Plexamp – Announcing Squeeze Plex Hub

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 5. October 2025 Comments: 1

The problem and the idea Back in 2001, a small company called Slim Devices launched the first Squeezebox players — among the very first network and multi room music players. They were truly ahead of their time, bringing streaming audio into homes years before it became mainstream. When Logitech acquired Slim Devices, they continued the product line for a while, but eventually discontinued the last Squeezebox in 2014. Fortunately, the story didn’t end there. The required server software,…

How to build an Ambilight for every HDMI input source

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 13. May 2014 Comments: 199

In this post I’m going to show how you can configure your Hyperion Ambilight for every HDMI source. If you don’t have an Ambilight setup yet, I kindly refer you to my previous guide, which will give you an initial ambilight effect for the media center running on the Rpi. This guide will then go one step further and enable the ambilight effect for all kind of HDMI input sources like PS3, XBOX,…

How to build your own Ambilight TV with Raspberry Pi and XBMC

Posted by: Christian Moser Posted on: 20. February 2014 Comments: 242

I always wanted one of those colourful glowing large TV screens in my living room but I never felt like paying a fortune for it. So, why don’t do it on my own? I ordered two Raspberry Pis, which seemed like a perfect fit for a media center and a LED controller because of the built in SPI bus interface. After some research, I decided that using SMD LED strips…