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[kym.merchant]

Hi everyone. I'm so excited to be on this page. I love Christmas and have been decorating my yard for many years now. I am in SA.
This year I have decided to try something different and have bought 3 coro singing Christmas trees from. Extreme lighting, but I have no idea where to start or what to do. At the moment I just have the trees themselves. No lights or controller.

I have watched you tube videos on adding the trees to lights, but they don't have the option of the Xtreme lighting props.

Ideally I would like to play the music through a speaker as well.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

 

[thewanderingpine]

Welcome!

If you share a link to the specific trees you bought - I can probably point out the model in xLights (it will be under EFL or Boscoyo).

In terms of what you need from here.
The 101 guide is a good place. ( https://auschristmaslighting.com/wiki/AusChristmasLighting-101 )

Your basically need:
* Pixels - just over 1000 pixels for 3 trees
* a controller to drive them (the Baldrick8 is probably a good choice here, but there are lots of options and they can all drive 3 trees)
* a power supply (to power the pixels and controller)
* some wires to hook it all together
* a box to make sure the controller/power-supply/etc are protected from the rain.

And then:
* something to “run” the show - an old laptop running Xschedule or a raspberry pi running FPP.
* outdoor speakers (and maybe an amp) to connect to that pi/laptop.


I think singing faces like you are doing is the best and easiest way to start with xLights and animated Christmas lights.

 

[merryoncherry]

To that I would add xLights sequences with singing face tracks... xlights.info is a good place to search, there are some free ones with the singing tracks. (There are presentations on how to do your own, but best to start with one that is already done.)