[TriEmbed] Anyone have their own christmas light show?

[Rick]

Good afternoon Rodney and all,


Here is one link that appears to be what you might want:


https://hackaday.com/2017/12/21/bringing-a-christmas-lights-show-inside/#comments


I highly recommend Hackaday blog as a daily reader. While the signal to 
noise ratio is fairly good, there are moments when the trolls show ... 
viewer discretion is advised.


Regards and Happy New Year,


Rick


On 12/28/2017 12:32 PM, Rodney Radford via TriEmbed wrote:
> 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.
>
> ;-)
>
>
>
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