Computer controlled christmas lights with arduino.
Christmas light controller software mac.
It s a rewrite from the ground up to support many advanced features of lighting displays being created these days.
Xlights is a free and open source program that enables you to design create and play amazing lighting displays through the use of dmx controllers e1 31 ethernet controllers and more.
These days almost any lighting or stage effect equipment may be controlled using these protocols including moving lights led screens fog machines and laser displays.
For the last few years a new version of the popular vixen software has been in development.
Simple easy to use interface enables the pc to connect to the outside world using a wide variety of industry standard relay cards or lpt parallel port relay cards or the x10 firecracker module.
Vixen is software for do it yourself lighting automation displays.
Vixen is geared primarily toward the diyer.
With a pc and some hardware anyone can have a professional looking lighting display synchronized to music.
Most popular at christmas computer controlled displays are becoming increasingly popular for other holidays as well.
Normally these setups require commercial light controllers costing hundreds of dollars commercial animation software that can also be quite expensive a literal.
With it you can layout your display visually then assign effects to the various items throughout your sequence.
Have you driving by houses with fancy christmas lights often synchronized to music.