Controlling Christmas Lights With Your Computer

Or turn off some lights and leave the others on.

Controlling christmas lights with your computer.

We ll start with the original christmas light. Create something amazing where all your lights and special effects are perfectly synchronized to the music and video. I had christmas lights controlled by a commodore 64 computer in 1985 and it is still being used this year. We are quickly going to break into two different paths.

If you are a tech savy person who can work with soldering equipments and have basic. You can control these christmas lights through an app. Computer controlled musical christmas lights step 1. You can make them shine and blink with particular patterns.

There are three key things that make up a christmas light show. And there are now various smart lights available online or in store. Your lights are connected to your home wired or wireless network so you can place your lights anywhere in the house or in the yard controlled and animated from the comfort of your computer. Anywhere from 32 64 would be a good starting point.

2015 johnson family dubstep christmas light show featured on abc s the great christmas light fight duration. Purchase a lot of christmas lights. Our off the shelf controllers combined with award winning sequencing tools give you the power to synchronize lights and special effects. The lights are arranged together to form different props like leaping arches.

Ok let s start at the top down and i ll be quick here as most techies would guess this upfront. Smart christmas lights are not so new. The beauty is once you create multiple controllers as you add more lights to your house xlights makes them all work together as a show. These lights are a slave to your commands.

The lights the control circuitry and the sequencing. Munster indiana dogwood at camelia about 25 miles se of chicago. One channel could be one bush one doorway etc. Light o rama provides the hardware and software to make the magic that dazzles the crowds.

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