[TriLUG] Anyone have their own christmas light show?

[John Dulaney via TriLUG]

> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:32:42 -0500
> From: Rodney Radford via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>,
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> Subject: [TriLUG] Anyone have their own christmas light show?
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> For years I have been reading about, researching, and wishing for a fancy
> Christmas light show on my house and I have decided next year I will put
> together my first setup.
>
> My plan is to build several 8 and 16 channel light control boxes that have
> power in to the outlets, and be controlled from an esp8266 (arduino + wifi)
> controller fed to a 8x or 16x channel relay board. This would mean I only
> need to run one power line to each board and all control sequences can be
> controlled from one system inside the house.
>
> I plan to put one on each side of the house for the bushes/trees and porch
> railing, and one on a large cone christmas tree (16x strands of 100 lights
> each).
>
> I already have 165' of neopixels that I bought for this project about 2
> years ago and I want to put them along the roof line.
>
> I am researching different open source control software and have several
> that look promising, but have not downloaded and tried out yet.
>
> I am reaching out to see if anyone else on the TriLUG and TriEmbed lists
> already have their own lights and if so, would you be willing to trade a
> few emails on ideas, suggestions, things to stay away from, etc?
>
> Btw, this is the first video of a long series showing how to build the
> control boxes and using Vixen software to control the lights. I like the
> general idea, but I plan to use the esp8266 for the control link instead of
> a Raspberry Pi and wired ethernet.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvG9c84ApFA
>
> I have 11 months until Thanksgiving... that is my deadline.
>
> ;-)
>
>

Why not do midi?  :)

--
John.
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