Arduino Uno + 8 SSR + ESP8266 + Xlights. Any guidance?

[Fotofobia]

Hey guys.

I read a post somewhere of some user how he managed to get an 8 SSR and an Arduino and Vixen, so I immediately logged in to my amazon, got the SSR, got a power source 5v, got the Arduino Uno, fuses, cables....

Well, now all the hardware is put together, however, I simply cannot find a way to make this work with Xlights.

Some users told me to get some ESPSticks ---- but I don't want to waste the money I already spent on all this hardware.

Is there *any* way to make a simple Arduino Uno, with 8 solid state relays connected to the pins and an ESP8266 serving Wifi to communicate with Xlights?

I read about artnet, e131 and such but apparently I still need to get other hardware (Arduino Wifis, ESPSticks, etc).

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Why am I doing this? Because I want to integrate my regular AC lights to my shows.

[jnealand]

You can easily integrate AC lights into your show using LOR, Renard, or Lynx AC controllers.  Probably any DMX based controller.  There are not huge numbers of Arduino folks on this forum.  You might even ask at http://doityourselfchristmas.com/ as that seems to have a lot more arduino users.

[Gilrock]

You can make it work but I'm not experienced with using Arduino's in xLights.  You gotta load it with code that accepts a protocol that xlights can output.