2016 - Mega Tree With Public Remote Control

[uzelessknowledge]

Abandoned adding tutorial due to the changes that xLights scheduler went through this year. I am still using old version of built in xlights scheduler for my player since that is where my new code and functionality resides. I will be porting it over into new xScheduler sometime before next season but it won't take much since the new xSchedule pretty much does this on it's own.

I’m using FPP but would be very interested in doing something like this next year. I like the idea of letting folks choose the song.


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[barlav]

A few pics during the day:
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[barlav]

This is one of the videos I took of the mega tree this year with the added star

[barlav]

It was a busy year and almost didn't get everything done in time but as of today everything is setup, tested and ready for launch on Black Friday! Getting over a foot of snow the day before setup didn't help speed things up either!

2018 Projects and To Do List:
1. Update E682s to 5.x firmware
2. Add small, medium and large chroma presents
3. Add remote control system to xSchedule
4. Add new sequences - Added 6 for this year for a total of 27 in all that viewers can choose from their phone.

Testing prior to setup:
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Setup Complete: (Had a networking issue with the star ans presents, turned out the network cable wasn't fully seated in E682 so that's why the box is open)
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[barlav]

2018 season all wrapped up. Here is a picture of everything up and running on the last day:
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Very successful season. Only one blue led failure in all pixels. Ran from 11/23/19 through 01/01/19 5-10pm. 200 hour total run time.
27 song playlist, Over 750 successful viewer requests and 0 software/website errors. This was the first season I used xSchedule with my web based remote control and it worked perfectly.

Happy New year!

[barlav]

Took advantage of some sunny/dry weather and setup for this season. No new props this year. Added 6 new sequences bringing the playlist to 33 songs this year for viewers to select from their phones. This is my fourth season and still amazed when everything works!

Some pics of the setup, took about 2 hours from start to finish. Seems to get a little faster each year.
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