Pivos Vue Lightpack Ambient Light Kit

Unfortunately, mine came with one LED strip that did not work for some reason. However, I contacted customer support, and they mailed me a new strip right away, even with a hand-written address! Now all 10 of the strips work great.Like other people, I use AmbiBox with this. It's also worth noting that SVP Pro's SVPLight lightpack feature does indeed work with this as well. However, if you have multiple software trying to control the lightpack at once, you get horrible flickering. What I did was set a profile in AmbiBox that detects if a media player is running and shuts off lightpack control if so, and then SVP takes over (not to say AmbiBox doesn't work with video; SVP is built for that though so I'd rather use it for that purpose).Where the Vue really shines (pun intended) is with games though. It really adds more depth - play in a dark room and preferably have a matte white wall behind the monitor. It looks so nice.I could live without it, but it really does make movies and games look a lot better. Definitely worth the cost.

This would have been a 5 star review if I had received unit with 10 fully functioning lights. Unfortunately I did not. The Pivos Vue Lightpack would work perfectly were it not for a broken LED strip I received with it.

To start, in case anyone was wondering, the "Pivos Vue Lightpack" and the "Lightpack" are basically the same thing. The only differences between the two are that the packaging for this one is much nicer, there is the addition of a Vue logo on the control box (or hub), and this one is $30 cheaper.When unboxing the product I found that all of the necessary wires, components, and paperwork were included in the box. The instructions were fairly straightforward (more on the process of setting up later). On initial testing of the 10 RGB strips, I found that they were all fully functional.The process of setting up the lights was not as bad as I thought it would be. I am very skeptical of "peel and stick" products, however, everything is still holding up just fine (it's been about 2 months). Don't expect to be able to reuse the "sticky side" if you plan to upgrade your monitor in the future. It also doesn't hurt to check that everything is still sticking every once in awhile.I am using this with a computer, so I can't give any insight into how the Vue works with media boxes like the XIOS XS.Using this with a computer requires the installation of software to control the lights. They recommend that you install Prismatik, but don't even waste your time with that disgraceful garbage. If you want to use these lights while gaming in full-screen, Prismatik doesn't work with all full-screen games. The worst part about Prismatik is that it destroys frame rates. My computer is completely overkill and it still lags out with Prismatik.My ranting does come with a solution. I found an obscure program called AmbiBox (it's a .ru website). It's free, it works with all games in full-screen, it uses very little processing power, and it is massively customizable. It's not perfect, but it sure as hell isn't Prismatik.After using the Vue for a while now, I can confidently say that it is well worth the money (if this is the kind of thing that you like to spend money on). I do, however, have some complaints...The hub has this blue LED light right in the center. To me this is extremely annoying, because when my computer is off the blue light is still on in a standby mode. The blue light is always on. I'm not sure why they didn't just make it an additional RGB. Why does it have to be blue? I'm considering covering it with some electrical tape.Lightpack (the original product) is soon coming out with the Lightpack 2, which is supposedly going to include the addition of being able to accent an entire room with RGB lighting. If you want all of that capability, then you have to wait for the Lightpack 2 to come out. To me this seems pointless. Why can't they just offer some compatible accessories for this kit? I would really like to see some longer RGB strips for lighting up the entire wall. Just splice on the telephone-like connector and there you go. Easy.This product is best suited for people with one monitor, or a television mounted above their other displays. I have 2 monitors that sit side-by-side. I wish that the Vue offered the option to daisy chain additional kits together, even if they all mimicked the same monitor. It's disappointing to me that you can ever only have one kit running at a time. Technically this is more of an issue with the lack of more sophisticated controller software, but I don't expect Prismatik to fill those shoes during my lifetime.In closing, I personally believe that this is the best solution available for those who seek the beauty of RGB accent lighting. It could be much better, but the designers of the product traded customization for ease-of-use. They made a product that can't really be used in any way other than intended. They are definitely hurting themselves by doing that.I hope that this review was helpful. Thanks for reading it.

Use this on my PC, i have a 34" 21:9 monitor and the lights are close to perfect for the effect. Very easy to set up hardware wise software is a little tricky. I highly recommend using the AmbiBox software instead of the whatever the instructions said to download. This software is much better performing and easy to use. If you do use it the setttings i use areDynamics - 50Sensitivity - 50Smoothing - 4Minimum light - 1Saturation - 130Tweak to your liking but these are a great starting point.Also when you set up the zones its better to make them of the length of each light bar and make them thinner, for my 3440x1440 monitor the bars are about 130 pixels thin and about half that away from the edge of the screen. I feel it makes the lights more active and responsive. Very good for watching moving and playing video games.Side note if you want to use this playing games you need the Ambibox software and use it in windows 8 mode, also you're going to take a 5ish fps hit to use it while gaming. But when it's all working it is an amazing experience, truly next level.

Stopped working and half of the LED's just stay in one color.