• Self-hosted installation that is (almost) completely local

• Integrations

  • DSC Alarm panel  - EnvisaLink 4

  • Camera system - ZoneMinder

  • ZWave - Aeon Z-Stick and ZWaveJS

  • Garage doors - Zooz ZWave Relay

  • Lighting - GE/Inovelli Zwave Dimmers and Philips Hue Bulbs

  • Entertainment - Sonos AMPs and Logitech Harmony

  • Climate Control - Ecobee via HomeKit Server

  • Cars - Toyota and BMW cloud integrations

• Examples of automations

  • Outdoor lights will turn on at sunset and turn off at 11 PM

  • After sunset and before sunrise, if the outdoor lights are off and any exterior door opens, the outdoor lights will turn on, wait until the door is closed, and turn off two minutes later

  • Mobile notifications and pause HVAC  if any doors or windows are left open

  • Spoken announcements regarding alarm status

  • Soft arm alarm, which will send a notification to a mobile device instead of the monitoring company

For the 2024 show, a pixel mega tree with 1,600 individually addressable RGB pixels was added. Additionally, 4 new songs were added. Over $2,000 was raised for St. Jude Children's Hospital! 

The 2024 show was featured on News 12 Long Island!

For the 2023 show, over 3,000 individually addressable RGB pixels were added. The free and open source xLights software was used for sequencing the display. Over $1,500 was raised for St. Jude Children's Hospital, which far surpasses any previous year. 

New for the 2020 show was a donation box. Since 2020, we have raised over $600 for St. Jude Children's Hospital!

Pictured is one of the Renard Plus TR24 lighting controllers out in the yard. These controllers operate at 120 V and allow for dimming of AC Christmas lights. They were purchased as bare PCBs and assembled/wired by hand. 

Mounted inside the garage is the show control system. This consists of a Pi 4 running Falcon Pi Player, a Creative SoundBlaster (for better audio output from the Pi), a FM transmitter with antenna, a very old network switch, a PoE adapter for the outdoor 2.4 GHz access point, and a power strip. Ferrite beads were used on the power and audio cables to prevent interference, which in turn, provides clearer audio from the FM transmitter. The F16v4 controller is connected directly to the network switch, and the TR24 controllers are daisy chained off of the serial port of the F16v4 using a special DMX to Renard crossover cable. The WiFi is used for the outdoor speaker, which uses timing packets to synchronize audio. 

Made for FRC Team 3171 using HTML, CSS, and JS.

Made for Sway (Virtual Enterprises) using HTML, CSS, and JS.

From his freshman to his senior year of  high school, Joseph was part of FRC team 3171: Hurricane Robotics. During Joseph's sophmore and junior year, he was nominated secretary of the robotics team. During this time, he worked on administrative tasks (such as time sheets) and assembling mechanical components of the robots. During Joseph's senior year, he was nominated president of the team. He managed the team and decided how to delegate tasks. During this time, he also created the electrical systems for the robots and assisted with Java programming of the robot.