My last post about sequencing went hard in the paint on the why but didn’t really touch on the how. As you may recall, this blog is more of a record of what I did or am doing instead of a how-to. T...

So, not long after I’d designed the layout I thought I’d be happy with in xLights, I went ahead and ordered the pixels. This can be an interesting task, so I’ll walk through what I did. Caveat: yo...

Pull up a cup of your favorite beverage and get cozy with the sequencing tab, because as far as I can tell (with my massive ~2 weeks experience in the hobby) this is where you’re likely to spend mo...

In one of my previous posts, I briefly mentioned groups when discussing building the models of lights. I wanted to go a bit deeper on this topic now because I think this is a super amazing thing fo...

I didn’t mention the most important button in the Layout section: the Save button. Every time you make a change, the Save button turns red. Click it, the button turns grey. Click it often. There’...

Okay, I’ll be honest with you. I hate the xLights 3D editor. The few redeeming qualities I find in it include “I didn’t program the thing” and “it hasn’t yet actively tried to murder me”. If develo...

In recent versions, xLights has added the capability to import a 3D model of your house in order to get a better view of what the resultant display will look like. This is all well and good, but no...

“A journey with thousands of LEDs begins with a single step” or some such. I started seriously thinking about doing one of the sound-synced displays when I saw two in 2020, one of which was primar...

In 2018, I had an idea: I’d build a string of lights that I could program to do awesome things. I was inspired by my neighbor who’d bought a set of LEDs which changed color and all worked together ...