RGB101: How Do You Begin With RGB LED Light Animated Christmas Light Display?

A quick walkthrough of how you can get started with RGB Lights in your Christmas display, from start to finish!

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00:00 Introduction.
01:25 Taking a look at the gear
01:28 How to budget for your pixels?
02:35 What makes pixels different from normal Christmas lights?
02:48 Looking at a Christmas light controller.
03:08 How do you connect your pixels to your Christmas lighting controller?
04:27 Putting your pixels into shapes.
04:41 Boscoyo Studios and what props do.
06:17 What to do before you buy anything.
07:21 The basics on how to download props into X-Lights.
07:37 The danger of using file syncing services to share prop downloads.
08:03 The first thing to do when starting with X-Lights (When to use the 3D and 2D plans in X-Lights)
08:44 Adding a picture of your house into X-Lights.
09:57 Downloading and importing custom models.
10:53 The purpose of this initial expedition in X-Lights.
11:55 How do you start to figure out what number of pixels you need?
13:00 How do you decide how far apart you should space your pixels?
17:00 Creating and Naming groups
17:30 Sequencing.
18:29 What to do if Sequencing overwhelms you.
22:12 Link to our step-by-step guide

[brianmorgan]

Every year I seem to feel like I'm starting from the beginning. Thanks,

[kelvinroddy]

When I import the picture of my house it is upside down. When I rotate the picture upside down and try to import it is still upside down. How to I mitigate this issue?