Hyperion image grabber for X11 / Linux. https://github.com/hyperion-project

Based on Hyperion's X11 grabber https://github.com/hyperion-project/hyperion/blob/master/libsrc/grabber/x11/X11Grabber.cpp

Uses libXdamage to detect X11 display changes, only grabbing / sending images when required.

To compile run cmake . && make, qt5 (core / network ; qt5-base on arch) / x11 (damage / render / xlib ; libx11 / libxdamage / libxrender on arch) libraries are required.

Run Hyperion_Grabber_X11_QT with no arguments or argument --help to get a list of options and descriptions.

Example usage: Hyperion_Grabber_X11_QT --address 192.168.2.213 --port 19444 --frameskip 1 --scale 48 --inactive 600 --redadjust "255,10,0" --greenadjust "75,210,0" --blueadjust "0,10,160" --temperature "255,255,255" --threshold "0.0,0.0,0.0" --transform "1.0,0.0,1.0"

hgx11.service is included as an example if you wish to use a systemd service to start the grabber on login. Edit it to set your options. You would copy it to ~/.config/systemd/user/ and enable it with systemctl --user enable hgx11.service, to start it run systemctl --user enable hgx11.service.

hgx11stop.service ensures the LED's are cleared on shutdown, edit it and put it in /etc/systemd/system/

The -i option can turn off the Hyperion LED's after a configurable amount of time.

The -j option determines how to know when to turn off the Hyperion LED's after user inactivity, 0 (Default) uses Xdamage which detects screen changes while 1 will use Xscreensaver, which detects user input (mouse / keyboard /etc). Xdamage should be superior, the disadvantage is if you leave a window open with anything that changes (like a console with a blinking cursor), the LED's will stay on. Xscreensaver has the disadvantage that if a program doesn't tell it there is activity (like if you play a video for example), the LED's will turn off. Ideally there would be a way to determine if the screen is inactive if a video is not playing, maybe someone knows?

The -f option will skip grabbing frames, it can be used to limit the amount of images sent to hyperion. Since the images sent to hyperion is based on the amount of X11 display activity, if this option is set high and not much is going on, there may be a long delay between when images are sent to Hyperion, this option is useful if you're watching videos for example and want to reduce the CPU usage of the grabbing.

The -s option will scale your input resolution by dividing it by this option. If your display is 3840x2160 and you put in -s 10, the image sent to Hyperion will be 384x216 for example You should set this option so the image resolution sent to Hyperion is at least the size of your LED array, if you have for example 64 high by 36 wide of LED's, you would want to set -s to 60 or smaller (between 1 and 60) on a 3840x2160 display. The closer to 1 this setting is, the more CPU / bandwith will be used. Ideally you want a perfect dividor, for example if your LED array is 70x39 and screen sis 3840x2160, then you get (3840/70) 54.86 for the width and (2160/39) 55.38 for the height, the nearest perfect dividor is 48 (3840/48 = 80 ; 2160/48 = 45), if you were to use 54, then there would be rounding error (3840/54 = 71.111, but is truncated to 71) and the image sent to hyperion will not be correctly scaled.

While watching a video with a 3840x2160 60hz display, frameskip at 1 (30fps), divisor at 24 (160x90 output resolution) CPU usage is about 0.7% of one cpu thread, memory usage is 17.3 KB according to HTOP. CPU usage is 0% when nothing is changing on the display.

There are probably bugs, please submit a pull request if you can.