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Holiday Lights - Looking For A Script

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Good Morning!

I had a thought of using my EZB to turn on and turn off my holiday lights on my house. The only issue I think I may have is the code. I do not know enough code to turn on lights at 6pm and then turn off at 11pm.

Would anyone in the community be willing to help with this code?

Thanks Wayne


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#1  

This code will do the timing;


:start

WaitUntilTime(18,00)

#turn on the lights

WaitUntilTime(23,00)
#turn off the lights

GoTo(start)
#2  

@bhouston This is all that is needed? Seems to easy!

Canada
#3  

You will have to put in what you are doing to turn the lights on and off. How are you doing that?

#4  

My thought was to turn a Digital Pin high to turn on a transitor, to turn on a relay.

That should work?

I know the Digital Pin cannot sink or source a lot of current. So, I would need a transistor. OR, find a 5V relay with a low amount of current needed to operate, then that could drive the coil of a 120V AC relay, then the contacts would in turn drive the lights on my house.

At the time I asked the question, I really did not put much thought into the electronics needed to make it work. I thought it was a silly idea, but since I am not home at dark, I thought it would be kinda cool for the lights to turn on and off by themselves.

Has anyone on the forum done this before?

#5  

Given that you also need to power the EZ-B, this seems kind of overkill when you can do the same thing with a $10 electric timer, but just as a proof of concept that it can be done, yeah, no reason your concept shouldn't work.

Alan

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