Morning All, Mawson from Rozelle in Sydney

Mawson

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I have not done Christmas lights before though have displays for halloween. I have mostly written my own code for automation. Just look at controllers and tools as its getting more complex for creation.
 

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AAH

I love blinky lights :)
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Welcome to ACL. Looks like you and lots of others will have plenty of time at home to work on your display.
Writing your own automation code sounds like hard work. What sort of stuff are you controlling with your code?
 

Mawson

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Afternoon Alan

I mostly control relays (Lights, Fog), Servos and LED Strips and tinker with some sensors. I am experimenting with DMX. I use Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone Black and some home grown boards. Monitoring is mostly through MQTT. I was looking at Falcon controllers which is how I found this site. I moved to VSA (Servo) for show automation for speed though tend to hard code if I want to keep the project.

I was also looking for a timeline editor to allow all this to be easier than hand coding. The coding was ok but timing can be a problem. I tend to change languages based on the hardware.
 

djgra79

My name is Graham & I love flashing lights!
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Welcome to ACL Mawson. There's a few experts around who could help out with your specific enquiry, I am not one of them :D
 
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