That's all fine and dandy if you like the look of direct 5050 smd LEDs all up in your face.... or whatever those happen to be. I agree that they're a lot more flexible in application and effects, but unfortunately the fact they aren't diffused is really horrible to my eye. Just way too distracting and bright. I was thinking if I can tie the GI into the ELI and have it do the same colors, that would be pretty cool and hopefully not require a lot of programming.
There's a lot of time when the ELI is off, so I dunno...maybe have it default to whatever at the time it's not getting any inputs. Like I said, I don't know squat about how addressable LEDs or the programming to control them works. ;\