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[QUOTE="Martin Mueller, post: 98801, member: 28228"] Welcome. First Read the lighting 101 on the wiki for this site. I assume you mean you have strings of AC LEDs and want to know how to turn them on or off? Or do you want to do something more sophisticated? Or do you plan to become more sophisticated in the future? If you just want to turn them on at 16:00 and off at 21:00 then a simple timer will do it. Next step up is to use some home automation (next generation of the X10 appliance controls). Since you are in the US, you can get them at Home Depot or Lowes. If you want them to turn on / off / dim in pleasing patterns then you may want to look into a Renard controller. TR-24 or similar using a serial port from a computer or Raspberry PI to drive the Renard over a serial interface. Alternatively you can use a RenESP which can be driven over your homes WiFi. If you go the Renard route, then you can continue to grow your show and join the rest of us in the lighting addiction. To make the pleasing patterns, many of us use free sequencers such as Vixen, xLights or HLS. I personally play my show using a Raspberry PI running free FPP software (Has a nice interface that I control from my phone or tablet). Others use the players built into the sequencer software and have their computers play the show. So there are lots of options. Now read the 101 again. Good luck and have fun. [/QUOTE]
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