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+HYPERION
+========
+
+An opensource 'AmbiLight' implementation controlled using the RaspBerry Pi running Raspbmc. 
+The library is supplied with an implementation the client interface of the "Boblight" library (libbob2hyperion.so). The library is intended to boost the performance of the ambilight-led control, which can be an issue on the RaspBerry Pi. The current implementation does not use a client-server architecture and can be configured by overwritting libboblight with a symbolic link to libbob2hyperion.
+The shell-script 'bin/install_hyperion.sh' should install the library and create the symbolic link required to use the library.