Gday, New here from Beveridge, Vic.

[Haasy]

Pretty keen to start an awesome display, not looking to start this year obviously but would like to start planning for next year and I know absolutely nothing about pixel lights and controlled lights lol. This is my place this year

 

[BAZMick]

Welcome Haasy, oh you're gonna have so much fun with pixels! Grab a copy of the ACL101 manual and have a read through of that then go and have a look at Canispator Christmas's YouTube channel. A lot of us here use xlights with a Raspberry Pi running FPP and then Falcon Controllers. If you want to have a play over the Xmas holidays check out Hanson Electronics for his RPi-28D+ hat, an RPi and some pixels or strip.
Lastly don't forget to ask questions if your get stuck, were all here to help and inspire each other.
Cheers Bazzy

 

[Haasy]

At the moment that sounds like gibberish . But I’ll read the manual and hopefully it will make more sense. Thanks for the help mate.
Cheers

 

[bpratt]

Welcome aboard Haasy, the manual is a big read, so don't expect to understand everything the first time around.

For your first year in 2021, I'd keep a lot of what you've got, and add some key props in to boost your display, then in following years change totally to pixels.

 

[AAH]

Welcome to ACl. Always good to see Victorians and especially country Victorians lighting up.
There's generally a lighting mini expo in a number of the states around May-June each year and if you can get to that it's a great learning experience. If you can get to talk to someone who has a computer controlled display while it's up that's also a great leg up. There's a fair few displays listed on the display locations map/link.