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[QUOTE="Jinxx, post: 104265, member: 30726"] Hey everyone! Longtime Christmas nerd here. Started learning electronics and how to program Arduino and Raspberry Pi earlier this year, and figured Christmas was the perfect occasion to beef up my skill set and merge these two nerdy passions. Goal: At least an 8 channel display (ideally 24 channels if all goes according to plan) featuring 90% AC lights thrown about the yard and on the front of a two story house, all synced to music via xlights. Initially, I putzed around with Lightshowpi, but it left a lot to be desired as far as the music sequencing was concerned - xlights to the rescue! Love the software, and have a trial run planned for Halloween with 8 channels synced to music synced already. Show will play via Falcon Player on the Raspberry Pi Zero W, and an 8 channel, 5v, mechanical SainSmart relay board, wired to some gang boxes with dual receptacles (fuses and all that) to plug in the AC/incandescent light strings, controlled by an Arduino Uno that is connected to the network via ethernet module. My programming skills are definitely not at this level so I am relying on the many contributions from people like you on this forum - Thank you! Excluding the actual physical set-up of lights outside, I'd say I'm about 50% done with everything to make the trial run happen on Halloween. Cutting it close! If I have time, I have a PIR sensor (3.3v logic) that I'd like to use to make the Halloween light show motion sensor triggered - no lights or sound until someone walks by which triggers a 10 second light and sound sequence clip playing through speakers set up outside to scare the kiddies on Halloween night! From what I've read Falcon Player has event triggers built in to allow this very thing. What can I say - I'm ambitious. This forum has been immensely helpful so far, any and all input is welcome. Thank you all and cheers! - Liz [/QUOTE]
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