Thanks @steff75 for the feedback. It will be fixed in the next update for all platforms, sorry missed your message.
As a workaround, you should be able to ignore the error (it will keep popping up though) and keep moving the light, and you can still save the entertainment area. All should still work fine.
I recently discovered this app to be used on my Nvidia shield pro.
Lifx lights and beam are detects and they do sync very good following the video, but they constantly change brightness so fast that are kinda strobo lights.
Anyone else has this problem?
More then that is all good and I was about to purchase the app.
You can adjust the intensity on the Sync screen. Move the slider to the left and the brightness changes will be slower. Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks for the reply Thomas.
I tried to set to the minimum, but still flickers. I do think that’s the intended behaviour tho, not really something wrong.
It’s not having a “smoot” transition for the brightness, so even at the lowest settings it seems flashing quite a bit, distracting during a movie for example. I can record a video to explain better what i mean.
I have the same problem as @Jacopo_Volpin — no matter the intensity, the flickering exists and is not the same behaviour if used with the sync box. I tried so many things to figure out why this might be happening. I am using a Play Gradient Strip (latest version) and bought the app specifically to use the sync functionality with my Shield Pro. Is there any way I can help you track down this issue?
I’ve paid for “Entertaiment” upgrade on my android phone, then I have installed app on android TV, but I can’t use Entertaiment there (only 30 sec demo). It asks me for an upgrade. When I go to upgrade menu on Android TV i can’t see option to buy only Entertaiment package. What shoul I do?
Hello @Thomas I’ve just purchased Hue Essentials but I can’t get start Sync.
I’m running Sheield Pro with Hue Bridge and set of Hue Color bulbs. I can configure new entertainment zone, assign it to Sync but whenever I’m clicking “Start” sync I’m geting popup about streaming. I’m accepting conditions and nothing happens. Start button is still present.
I can run any other scene but not “Sync”. How can I troubleshoot?
I had the same problem on my Shield TV. I got the Start button working after I set up the entertainment area on my phone first, it then appeared in the Shield and the Start button started responding.
Give it a shot.
I have an android TV box xiaomi S2, and sync not work with youtube, prime, … I have read that it’s a problem with DRM, and they are not a solution or I haven’t found a workaround.
When I have tested Hue essential on my phone, I have see that it’s possible to use the camera of phone. Perhaps that on the hue essential on box, I have the same option, … I try to plug my webcam on usb, but the option camera not aper on hue essential ? It s’ not detected ? but I thinks that no, I have try an other application to show the flux of the webcam on usb, and the webcam it is ok !
Is there a solution to use the webcam over usb with hue sync in android tv ?
After I had to delete my Hue Essentials app, similar to this, I too am now facing the problem again of the Sync Entertainment Start button not responding on the Hue Essentials app on my Nvidia Shield. I tried my own advice multiple times as I explained here, but it does not work.
This is really frustrating when the Sync starts perfectly fine on my Android phone as well as my Microsoft PC, but I need it and only care for it to work on my Nvidia Shield.
Even more frustrating when we’ve purchased the upgrade and the user experience is not consistent.
Update: I finally was able to start the Sync program: I cleared the data from the HE app on the Shield, went through the setup again where it found the diyHue bridge.
Still outstanding to solve: the ADB command to start the sync program does not work unless the HE app is the active app. I’m sure this was working in previous releases.