DMX or Baldrick to turn ac lights on/off

[bert-nc]

Last year my window frames and house outlines were 120v a/c red incandescent c-9 and c-7 lights.
This year I am using pixels for my window frames, keeping the red c-9s on the house outline,
There will be times that the red c-9's (house outline) will not look good with the multiple colors
being displayed by the pixels. Especially sequences that I have bought.
I want to be able to simply turn off/on the house outline depending upon the song playing.
I am using a K8-B as my controller, and i understand i can run dmx from designated pins on that controller.
Was thinking of running a simple on/off dmx single to a basic dmx controller connected to a SSR
that would switch the house outline off/on.
The other option is the BaldrickSwitchy, which may the simpliest, however I am not sure off how to hook-up a Kulp K8-B to the Baldrick.

Suggestions and opinions are welcome

Before anyone suggest that I switch the house outline to pixels.
That may happen next year, but not this year.
Also, as I get older I am thinking of keeping things simple.

Bert-nc

 

[merryoncherry]

The Baldrick Switchy is a legit option. You would just use ethernet to drive it, so plug the Switchy into the network also. Your player would send the data to both the K8-B and the Switchy. (If the K8 is your player also, it can send network packets to Switchy.)

The other option I offer up is a LoR AC box... that would plug into the DMX on the K8, and has 16 controllable AC plugs on it. See: https://auschristmaslighting.com/th...r-stuff-100mbps-switches-lor-stuff-etc.16725/ for the LoR stuff I'm trying to offload.