Hi Eeveryone.

Hope you all had a great christmas dinner and have full bellys.
(I'm only 200+ messages behind).

I've had a very bussy couple of weeks before december even got here and
then the past three weeks fixing things.

What hase a \/orlon been doing? \/orlon's like playing with technology
and seeing what they can do with lilttle lights. The result is in the
video linked. First year of using addressable LED's, so have a hybrid
Christmas Light display.


https://youtu.be/DIBS2frcAl8



For our cousins over the ditch in NZ, check out Shell's display:

https://youtu.be/x9wUwhk_f8M




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Re: Christmas Lights
By: vorlon to all on Thu Dec 26 2019 09:42 pm

Hope you all had a great christmas dinner and have full bellys.
(I'm only 200+ messages behind).

Thanks, and hope your was well also!

Grease
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On 12-26-19 21:42, vorlon wrote to all <=-

Hi Eeveryone.

Hope you all had a great christmas dinner and have full bellys.
(I'm only 200+ messages behind).

Was a good day, rather quiet, but good. :) But I've got the muchies again - sprint training kinds burns off the extra calories fast - trained both Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. :D :D


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On 26 Dec 2019, vorlon said the following...

and seeing what they can do with lilttle lights. The result is in the video linked. First year of using addressable LED's, so have a hybrid Christmas Light display.

Very cool. What type of lighting are you using? In the past I have used
Z-Wave (and X-10 before that) to control my on/off but never really played around it programmable lighting. Thought about rigging up something with an ESP2866 setup to control but just didn't have the time.

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Heck yeah. Everything is on sale for a few days. Always a perfect time
to get a couple of items for the next holiday.

I have to get out and buy a few fireworks for the new year!

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Re: Christmas Lights
By: vorlon to all on Thu Dec 26 2019 09:42 pm

Hope you all had a great christmas dinner and have full
bellys. (I'm only 200+ messages behind).

Thanks, and hope your was well also!

Yes, this year it was a Christmas dinner, but still lots of food and
family time.


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On 12-26-19 21:42, vorlon wrote to all <=-

Hope you all had a great christmas dinner and have full
bellys. (I'm only 200+ messages behind).

Was a good day, rather quiet, but good. :) But I've got the
muchies again - sprint training kinds burns off the extra calories
fast - trained both Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. :D :D

I spent the morning and afternoon tinkering, then left for my parents
place at 5:30pm for a christmass dinner this year.

Lot's of food and family time. But miss having a xyl. #-(


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On 26 Dec 2019, vorlon said the following...

and seeing what they can do with lilttle lights. The result is
in the video linked. First year of using addressable LED's, so
have a hybrid Christmas Light display.

Very cool. What type of lighting are you using? In the past I have
used Z-Wave (and X-10 before that) to control my on/off but never
really played around it programmable lighting. Thought about
rigging up something with an ESP2866 setup to control but just
didn't have the time.

The leds have the ws2811 chip in them. The software is called "xlights",
and they are controlled from a raspberry pi4b+, running falcon pi player.
The pi has a "hat" with Hanson Eltronics RPI-28D+ connected to the GPIO
pins. http://www.hansonelectronics.com.au/product/rpi-28dplus/

There are 532 leds in the tree, 36 in each snowflake, 60 in the arches,
and 300 in the strip on the roofline.

Planning started in April, with lites etc being purchased
the following months. Then construction started in July
every few weekends, and a mad rush during october to get it all tested
and working. Then the middle of November it was put together and the
final bugs and fixes done for a Dec 1 turn on.

I was only running basic effects, but even they looked so much better in
real life, verses what was on the computer screen.

Everyone that came to have a look thought it was fantastic, and great.

New Years Day it all starts comming down, and thinking about what to add
for the next christmas season will start.

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On 28 Dec 2019, vorlon said the following...

New Years Day it all starts comming down, and thinking about what to add for the next christmas season will start.

Heck yeah. Everything is on sale for a few days. Always a perfect time to get
a couple of items for the next holiday.

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On 28 Dec 2019, vorlon said the following...

New Years Day it all starts comming down, and thinking about
what to add for the next christmas season will start.

Heck yeah. Everything is on sale for a few days. Always a perfect
time to get a couple of items for the next holiday.

A lot of the guys in the christmas light community use Ray Wu https://www.aliexpress.com/store/701799?spm=2114.12010108.100004.2.74066e8 fbwHOYC

He has a good reputation.




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On 12-28-19 17:05, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I spent the morning and afternoon tinkering, then left for my parents place at 5:30pm for a christmass dinner this year.

Ahh OK, cool. :(

Lot's of food and family time. But miss having a xyl. #-(

I never had one of those, never will. :) :P


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On 12-28-19 17:05, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

I spent the morning and afternoon tinkering, then left for my
parents place at 5:30pm for a christmass dinner this year.

Ahh OK, cool. :(

With the air-con running all day it was. %-)

Lot's of food and family time. But miss having a xyl. #-(

I never had one of those, never will. :) :P

Well you have a om, then!




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On 12-30-19 12:29, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Ahh OK, cool. :(

With the air-con running all day it was. %-)

Haha true. :D

Lot's of food and family time. But miss having a xyl. #-(

I never had one of those, never will. :) :P

Well you have a om, then!

That's more like it. :P


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Ahh OK, cool. :(

With the air-con running all day it was. %-)

For the past few years that's been the case. But I can still rember
chrismas day and having a jumper on...

Haha true. :D

Lot's of food and family time. But miss having a xyl. #-(

I never had one of those, never will. :) :P

Well you have a om, then!

That's more like it. :P

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On 01-02-20 14:30, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Ahh OK, cool. :(

With the air-con running all day it was. %-)

For the past few years that's been the case. But I can still rember chrismas day and having a jumper on...

2006 was a white christmas in the Dandenongs (around 30km east of Melbourne for the non locals).


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For the past few years that's been the case. But I can still
rember chrismas day and having a jumper on...

2006 was a white christmas in the Dandenongs (around 30km east of Melbourne for the non locals).

With the way things are now a days, a hot christmas means a stinker of
the Jan/Feb months. #-<




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On 01-03-20 17:41, vorlon wrote to Vk3jed <=-

With the way things are now a days, a hot christmas means a stinker of
the Jan/Feb months. #-<

Not always. I remember one year where we had a dry start to summer, then a hot Christmas/New Years, and a week into January, we had a torrential downpour in a storm, followed by 3 weeks of cool weather. You never know. :)


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