The Mind Blowing Color Changing Smart Home Setup!  #Helpful Post

day's setup is sponsored by philips

hue your guys johnathan here and this

color-changing set of blew my mind and i

think is gonna blow yours too

so this subs been in the works for a

couple weeks now I've almost lost my

mind trying to perfect it but I think I

got it now before I hop into the how-to

giving you a quick rundown of the setup

the star of the show is an 85 inch

monster 4k HDR TV from Sony it's not

OLED so it's not the latest and greatest

but for the price it looks amazing and

more importantly it fills the wall

beautifully the console is from weight

Logan it's clean it's simple it's

minimal but more importantly there's a

fantastic job of housing everything

together in this case because it set up

a senator around color and lighting I

love the fact that you can see directly

through the front panels on the console

it adds this awesome layer of ambience

inside the console is the Mac Mini the

greatest of all time so if you miss that

video definitely check it out an asus

external blu-ray drive which isn't used

to play blu-rays back but rather ripped

them directly onto the Mac Mini and then

run into a plex server next to that is

an Xbox one X project Scorpio edition

and finally on top of that which is kind

of hard to see is an Apple TV 4k now the

heart and soul of the audio setup is the

Martin Logan motion vision X it's a

little pricey but oh my god it sounds

incredible yes those are two home pods

left and right in stereo they don't

sound better than the sound bar but

they're also about half the price which

is pretty impressive and I think for the

most part if you just want to listen to

music it's kind of the go-to option but

definitely for movies the sound bar is

the way to go now as far as the Philips

hue set up behind the TV is one strip

with four extensions below that our two

Philips hue blooms those are kind of

shooting up towards a TV feel and

everything in inside the console or two

Philips hue goes and on the back of the

Media Console is one more Philips hue

strip which kind of rounds everything

out now as far as how I'm controlling

everything it's an Apple magic keyboard

with Magic Trackpad too and it's

sandwiched together with awesome little

12 South gadget that makes it perfect to

use on the couch now all this is

happening because of the Philips hue

sync app which is dropped recently and

the more and more I've messed with it

the more it blew my mind you will need a

computer to run this and it will work on

both Mac and PC it's not gonna work on

Apple TV or any kind of streaming box or

stick now this won't work with streaming

services like Netflix Hulu iTunes that's

because of copyright DRM when you try to

play it it thinks you're trying to

pirate the

so hopefully in the future those

companies will work with Philips to make

that happen but in the meantime an

amazing workaround and set up is with

Plex so to rip blu-rays the setup is

pretty simple I grabbed an ace whose

blu-ray player for about a hundred bucks

on Amazon and I use that in conjunction

with make MKV if you count my Mac Mini

video the time to rip a blu-ray it's

only about 20-25 minutes so it's not bad

at all

way less time consuming than I ever

would have imagined now if you want to

get into 4k blu-ray ripping it's

possible but it's a lot of work you got

to get these custom codes so more

trouble than it's worth for me right now

but I'll drop some resources down below

if you want to do that yourself so as

you can see my Plex collection it's not

amazing but it's steadily growing and

it's also created this new sick

addiction more importantly though it

works amazing with Phillips you sink to

give us a quick rundown of the software

there are four modes scenes games music

and movies there are four intensity

modes subtle moderate high and intense

honestly as cool as it is to use this in

conjunction with movies music is amazing

when you're using this in conjunction

with music you have five color palettes

to choose from I think four is probably

my favorite it has a ton of Blues and as

you can tell I like blue if you've used

third-party apps in the past to get this

effect use the microphone and it always

felt a little laggy a little slow but

this responds in real-time and it is

crazy impressive now once you have the

hue sync app installed on your computer

next you want to head over to the hue

app on your phone or tablet's hop over

to the settings section and then select

entertainment areas this is where you're

gonna set every light that you want in

that section and what's awesome is you

can actually see how that looks in the

environment and move the lights so they

best react to the scene you can see the

TV the couch so in my case everything is

pretty heavily centered around the TV

but more importantly you can fine-tune

everything so it works perfectly from

there once you have everything configure

it is time to enjoy the light show now

the one question I've seen pop up a ton

is is this distracting while you're

watching a movie and honestly it can be

at first especially when you're kind of

looking for those lights to perform but

the more and more you get used to it and

actually focus on the movie it almost

becomes a secondary enhancement that you

would definitely miss if it was gone in

this case it is definitely exaggerated

on the extreme side of what you

do more than likely you're not going to

need this many lights or this many

colors if you want to though it looks

amazing or you can tone it down the

beautiful part about this is it can't be

customized to your taste so yeah that's

a setup it's way way more fun than I

ever thought it would be and as much as

I thought I was in this kind of

streaming not a physical media world it

kind of brought me back to my inner geek

which is really cool he missed my Mac

mini video that's kind of the

centerpiece of this setup and how

everything runs that video is here and I

will catch you guys later