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I've just released one, called Hue Matcher. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oakonell.huematch It may take a bit for the store listing to "propagate"- I just pushed "promote to production".

I guess they're keeping the market open for third party apps, and other creative ideas?

I've created such an app for Android devices, which hopefully satisfies your criteria :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oakonell.huematch

I do agree it would be good to have official support for such concepts, especially that they've started on their site.

There are a few apps out there that can do this for you if you don't have the ambilight TV from Philips.

I've got Android devices primarily in my household, so I use Hue Matcher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oakonell.huematch&hl=en

Basically it utilizes the camera on your device to take a sample of the color in a region and sets the hue light to that color.

There is a slight delay, but it is 400ms or less so it is almost not noticeable.

Alternatively, I've also heard of folks using a PC connected to their TV and running an app on that PC that essentially does the same color sampling, just on the content coming from your PC, so if you have a media center PC and all content is funneled through it you could go this route.

There are apps that do it that way on both iOS (Hue Camera) and Android (Hue Matcher).

Seems kind of awkward to have to keep your phone pointed at the screen, but at least doable.

> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oakonell.huematch

Thank you, I'm downloading this right this second.

EDIT: this is super nice and easy to use and improves Rick and Morty by a lot (which I didn't previously think was possible).

What do you think is the best set up for this? Right now I'm using my phone, but that means... you now... I can't use my phone...

Also, it seems I can't install it on my Android 4.4.4 Cyanogenmod Nexus 7. Is that simply too old or am I doing something wrong?

Yup. Sorry for leaving that out. It's an app for Android called "Hue Matcher." https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oakonell.huematch&hl=en

That is clever. There are apps for Android phones that do something similar with the phone camera (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oakonell.huematch&hl=en_US ) for example.