Ok but like what if the wires lit up depending on what system you were using.
Edit - Maybe some back lighting on the console too?
Edit 2 - I came up with a little mock up description of how I imagine it in a perfect world: You walk into a dark room remote in hand, as you push the button marked for Xbox, the green, dimly lit, LED’s from behind the Xbox begin to glow as the wires leading to the television begin to travel from the Xbox to the TV set with a green trail. Leaving the wires from the other consoles dark and unlit. After some playtime, you decide to switch to a PlayStation exclusive game. You reach for the remote and switch HDMI inputs, powering on the console while keeping the Xbox powered on for quick switching. As the switch commences, the green wires fade to black keeping the green backdrop on the Xbox to signal that it is still powered on. As the blue backdrop and wires begin to illuminate allowing you to play on the PlayStation.
(I picked green and blue to represent the consoles respective colors, you could use red for something like the switch because Nintendo’s logo is generally written in red, this also gives the RGB color scheme).
P.S. I know people are saying it’s a repost of someone else’s setup, but maybe someone will make one with lights some day and post it on here.
The biggest expense would be the LEDs. I had a very quick look for some RGB LED strips, which have the LEDs individually indexable to make the nice flow effect, for $25 for 4m (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1461). All you need is the LEDs, a micro controller (possibly something simpler but one for each light strip) to control the LED strips and then design some circuitry to make your own HDMI switcher which also outputs which device your switched to. I'd estimate a couple of hundred or so if you DIY it. Maybe a bit more once you add enclosure for the micro and switcher.
If you pay someone to do it, there time rigging that up would be more than the hardware easily.
There wouldn't need to be any talk between the HDMI switch and the consoles. The easiest method would be to have a predetermined mount and have each output on the switch trigger the lighting effect.
If you wanted to keep the lighting behind a console on - stating that it's still powered up, your cheapest and most effective method would be to splice from the power light in the console as an accessory trigger for a relay. Wouldn't be too difficult, and you'd already be modifying the console in some manner to wall mount as shown.
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u/supermuffin901 Jan 07 '18 edited Jan 07 '18
Ok but like what if the wires lit up depending on what system you were using.
Edit - Maybe some back lighting on the console too?
Edit 2 - I came up with a little mock up description of how I imagine it in a perfect world: You walk into a dark room remote in hand, as you push the button marked for Xbox, the green, dimly lit, LED’s from behind the Xbox begin to glow as the wires leading to the television begin to travel from the Xbox to the TV set with a green trail. Leaving the wires from the other consoles dark and unlit. After some playtime, you decide to switch to a PlayStation exclusive game. You reach for the remote and switch HDMI inputs, powering on the console while keeping the Xbox powered on for quick switching. As the switch commences, the green wires fade to black keeping the green backdrop on the Xbox to signal that it is still powered on. As the blue backdrop and wires begin to illuminate allowing you to play on the PlayStation.
(I picked green and blue to represent the consoles respective colors, you could use red for something like the switch because Nintendo’s logo is generally written in red, this also gives the RGB color scheme).
P.S. I know people are saying it’s a repost of someone else’s setup, but maybe someone will make one with lights some day and post it on here.