Nov 262011
I posted my current ColorNode code on the ColorNode project page. I admit it’s not great but it is working well and the lights look great on the house. I’ll have to take a video once the weather is better. I can’t really change anything at this point, so any improvements will have to wait until the lights come back down.
I’d love to see the video. Here’s one of mine http://www.youtube.com/thebugger2000#p/c/A62DDAC5CB5E3D97/9/dq2DnV8aNvY
Jim, those look so cool! I’m going to steal your white chaser idea for the G35 library.
How many strings do you think you could run wireless set up with color node PCBs installed
I have 6 running on my house right now. The RF12 library supports about 30 nodes per wireless group. I haven’t looked into the groups too much, but you could theoretically have several groups each with 30 nodes. My payload structure also has the destination address in it and it is limited to 255 nodes. I use a combination of broadcast and direct addressing, but remember that all nodes (if within range) will receive all the RF signals so they need to be programmed to either act on it or ignore it. Synchronizing many nodes is totally possible but there will be times when one or more does not properly receive the RF payload packets and gets out of sync.