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<p>Good afternoon Rodney and all,</p>
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<p>Here is one link that appears to be what you might want:</p>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hackaday.com/2017/12/21/bringing-a-christmas-lights-show-inside/#comments">https://hackaday.com/2017/12/21/bringing-a-christmas-lights-show-inside/#comments</a></p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Regards and Happy New Year,</p>
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<p>Rick<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/28/2017 12:32 PM, Rodney Radford
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<div>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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
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I am researching different open source control software and
have several that look promising, but have not downloaded
and tried out yet.<br>
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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?<br>
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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. <br>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvG9c84ApFA"
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I have 11 months until Thanksgiving... that is my deadline. <br>
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