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Title: Christmas display for my house
Post by: rsandoz on November 28, 2017, 01:28:33 PM
I am new to this and trying to put together a Christmas display for my house.

I ordered the F16V3 controller "Ready to run" with Ray Wu pigtail and 12 V.

I am trying to get an idea of what else I need.

I am looking at the Ray Wu store on ali express:
https://www.aliexpress.com/store/701799

So far:

4x icycles for #2
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/individually-LED-full-color-Icicles-string-DC12V-WS2811-controlled-all-white-wire-IP68-60nodes-set/32310871722.html?spm=a2g0s.13010208.99999999.262.9I5BaJ

ANy ideas for lighting?  Additional hardware I need? 
Title: Re: Christmas display for my house
Post by: Gilrock on November 28, 2017, 02:01:58 PM
60 ft mega-tree right in the driveway.
Title: Re: Christmas display for my house
Post by: Phrog30 on November 28, 2017, 02:46:27 PM
Outline house, rooflines, dormers, etc.

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Title: Re: Christmas display for my house
Post by: Ebuechner on November 28, 2017, 02:50:37 PM
Turn around the empty boat trailer and use the tail lights😁
Title: Re: Christmas display for my house
Post by: sulrich on November 29, 2017, 07:59:00 PM
take a look on Boscoyo Studio's website and get a couple coro or ABS items. Candy canes, snowflakes, and more.. Ray Wu sells icicles pixels that fit boscoyo's icicles.. and a mega tree.. can start small with 10-12' trees Boscoyo has a kit.  Falcon Controllers by far the easiest and most versatile.

**Note** ensure any pixels you buy have at least 4" spacing, 3" is a little cheaper, but dont fit all props available, (i learned the hard way)

DIYLEDEXPRESS,
Ray Wu's site,
BOSCOYO Studio
pixelcontroller. com

Good Luck
Title: Re: Christmas display for my house
Post by: rsandoz on December 04, 2017, 05:12:58 AM
Thank you all for the help!

Also for controlling existing AC stuff.  Renard or LOR?  Can I buy an already-made Renard?  Is LOR any good or do they have any proprietariness that I should be concerned about in their hardware?  I was looking at:
CTB16PC-ReadyToGO-Addon
http://store.lightorama.com/reseadct.html
Title: Re: Christmas display for my house
Post by: rsandoz on December 07, 2017, 11:33:06 AM
On the topic of software.  I have an Intel NUC box with a Celeron 2.16 Ghz CPU, 120G SSD, 8GB RAM and am thiking about sticking that inside my Falcon enclosure.  Will this be enough horsepower?  Would xLights on Ubuntu work better for this?  Can I develop virtually on my laptop then copy the XML and media (MP3) files over?
Title: Re: Christmas display for my house
Post by: keithsw1111 on December 07, 2017, 11:46:48 AM
To play ... it should be. And yes you can move your fseq Files and networks file across.