Christmas lights, any new ideas?

[kohai]

This year I'm going to set up some timers to turn on the Christmas lights inside and out.  Nothing fancy, but might involve some z-wave plus my lighting system.  The wife says its too warm for Christmas lights to be on, so I'm waiting 10 more days before punishing my neighbors with the awesomeness that is my lights.

 

Do any of you do anything cool with your ISY and Christmas?

[larryllix]

This year I'm going to set up some timers to turn on the Christmas lights inside and out.  Nothing fancy, but might involve some z-wave plus my lighting system.  The wife says its too warm for Christmas lights to be on, so I'm waiting 10 more days before punishing my neighbors with the awesomeness that is my lights.

 

Do any of you do anything cool with your ISY and Christmas?

Try something like on.

It takes v5.xx though, to extract those days and months into a variable, in another program.

GathRm Christmas Tree - [ID 0086][Parent 00C0]

If
        (
             (
                  Time is Sunset 
              And (
                       $sISY.MM.DD >= 11.15
                    Or $sISY.MM.DD <= 1.07
                  )
             )
          Or (
                  Time is  5:00:00AM
              And $sISY.MM.DD >= 12.24
              And $sISY.MM.DD <= 12.26
             )
          Or 'Gathering Room / GathRm KeyPad.C' is not switched On
          Or 'Master Bedroom / MBR KeyPad.C' is switched On
        )
    And 'Gathering Room / GathRm KeyPad.C' is not switched Off
    And 'Master Bedroom / MBR KeyPad.C' is not switched Off
 
Then
        Set 'GathRm Christmas Tree' On
        Wait  8 hours 
        Run Program 'GathRm Christmas Tree' (Else Path)
 
Else
        Set 'GathRm Christmas Tree' Off
 

EDIT: Mini-Remotes (KeyPad.C) switching logic corrected.

[builderb]

Actually have been plotting some lights based on a Fadecandy LED controller. Not sure if I'll get to it this year though. Busier than I was planning to be.

 

Probably not this elaborate, but who knows.

 

https://youtu.be/nPXKWIkJJUE

[kohai]

Actually have been plotting some lights based on a Fadecandy LED controller. Not sure if I'll get to it this year though. Busier than I was planning to be.

 

Probably not this elaborate, but who knows.

 

 

That's pretty adventurous.