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An Arduino library for GE Color Effects G-35 holiday lights.
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Music activated lights, multiple questions #4

Closed huntin4relics closed 12 years ago

huntin4relics commented 12 years ago

Jeremy Blum just put up a vid on the tube about how he makes his addressible RGB lights activate with music. It's a very interesting idea and would be a great thing to incorporate with the G35's. Now I have a few questions. I already have several of those lights in the G35's, icicles, and several yard sculptures. I just wonder how complicated it's going to be to sync all of those together. To sync them all together now with the stock remote is terrible at best. Each set is off by a few m/seconds so after they run for a little while, it's way out of sync. I know each node has an address and this could get very complicated couldn't it? I was wondering if you guys have already experimented with the other strands/sculptures as well. It would be a very neat idea to elaborate a bit on Jeremy's idea and not only capture the music but also the frequency and assign colors based on frequency ranges. Just a few ideas. I know I'm getting way way out in left field now. I'm just glad I have a set to experiment with since the transformer went out on one set I have this year.

sowbug commented 12 years ago

Please check out the README and the example sketches, and you'll see that the library handles all the synchronization cases you describe. As for having external inputs drive the content, that's up to you; the library just provides a reliable way to talk to the lights, but it doesn't get into application-specific use cases such as what Jeremy's doing.

huntin4relics commented 12 years ago

Thanks for the reply. You've done some awesome work. I was just excited when I found this information. I guess I should have started reading before I started asking questions which had already been addressed.

Keith N

On Dec 28, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Mike Tsaoreply@reply.github.com wrote:

Please check out the README and the example sketches, and you'll see that the library handles all the synchronization cases you describe. As for having external inputs drive the content, that's up to you; the library just provides a reliable way to talk to the lights, but it doesn't get into application-specific use cases such as what Jeremy's doing.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/sowbug/G35Arduino/issues/4#issuecomment-3294192

sowbug commented 12 years ago

Keith, welcome to the project. I just need to make sure that new issues filed against the project represent either real bugs in the software or else new feature requests. If you find that there are missing features that do belong in the project, please go ahead and file a new issue.

By the way, if you're interested in going farther with home light shows, visit http://doityourselfchristmas.com/. The site's a little under the weather at the moment, but it's an excellent resource for a potentially all-encompassing hobby.