christmastech.tv

[animal]

Ok everyone,
         I'm very premature in letting this out. I had such a revelation last year using the raspberry pi with FPP, that I thought I would let the cat out of the bag. Plus I got a good deal with my host provider. I wanted to give back to the hobby I love so much that I came up with this concept a long time ago but just getting it now implemented. Live shows, with Skype guests, and live Chat Q&A. I want to show everyone how I set my display up and hope to give a different perspective, and also help with others who want to get started, and/or just needs help. Sometimes it's not just reading it on the forums but actually seeing it done by just a plain Christmas Geek like me. For anyone getting started. I have a basic layout of my display located in the how to tab, on how I ran it last year. It was the best presentation in the 8 years I've been doing this. Xlights and FPP is going to be a much bigger part of this years prep, and I hope I can share my experiences good and bad with everyone. I want to keep this on a simple, not to technical format. (do to the fact I'm not) We will cover some good stuff hopefully with the help of you, and the communities.
                   Let me know if this could benefit anyone. The chat room is live for comments. Just go to the Live tab under shows.I hope to see you at,
http://www.christmastech.tv/
                                                      animal

[sean]

Very nice! Another resource for our hobby

sean

[flyinverted]

Animal / Christmastech.. who are you?

[animal]

Animal / Christmastech.. who are you?

LOL. That's a good question Steve,
          I'll get a complete Bio up on the web site with some pictures of the past. I'll give you a quick run down.

 My name is Bill, and I go by the handle of animal on the Christmas communities. I've been doing this since 2007, and started with a static display moving up to a 300 channels using vixen to sequence and also to play the show. My controllers were renards and a old Grinch set up for zero crossing to dim. Got with David Johnson and moved from vixen to LSP 1.7. At this point , I went from a 300 channel show to a 6000 channel show in one year. Every year I added and tried to out do the previous year. Working with Nutcracker and Xlights was very limited being fully invested in LSP. I only used basically Nutcracker to bring in effects to LSP, and that was painfull back then. No fault on any one ,but LSP was a hard nut to crack.  (no pun intended)
Like I said I'll try this week to update the website with a full Bio and some history of how far we have come in this hobby.
                               Thanks Steve, LOL. That was a good question.
                                                            animal

[Gilrock]

I was thinking you named yourself after the W.A.S.P. song Animal from the 80's....

[mharnish]

I was thinking you named yourself after the W.A.S.P. song Animal from the 80's....

Wow, there is a band I haven't thought of for a while.  Saw them in concert back in the 80's   LOL

I take it you were an 80's metal head as well.

Mark 

[mharnish]

Looks nice, it will be interesting to see what content you end up posting.  Keep us posted.

[animal]

I was thinking you named yourself after the W.A.S.P. song Animal from the 80's....

Close,
               That was my name back in the 70s when I was a DJ.
 
                                       animal