Saturday, June 7. 2014
How to use AmbientLIFX with games
A feature I (and many others) always wanted, was gaming with AmbientLIFX enabled. As you may know, currently the bulb will just dim to black when you start you game fullscreen. That is because the application uses a "exclusive" mode, in which no other program (as LIFXtend) take a screenshot.
It would be possible, but only with ugly hooks into the applications, and that is not something I have time for.
But as some users have informed me, it actually works if you play the game in a "borderless" windowed mode. It is basically not fullscreen, but it looks like fullscreen. It is enabled in some newer games like Battlefield 4. But some clever guys seem to have found a way to enable borderless windowed mode in almost any game: Steam Community Link
Try it out for yourself if you feel inclined. If anyone found a better way, I am always happy to report it here.
Back and ready
I just want to inform all LIFXtend users that I am back, but I still don't have too much time to work on LIFXtend currently.
It seems LIFX is updating the Firmware for their bulbs (and they communicate through facebook... who does that?).
Anyways, as soon as I get my hands on the new firmware I will try to update LIFXtend to work with the new version, and maybe even implement new features if the firmware contains the bugfixes I am expecting.
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