Note to make things easier. When setting up each device I named them individually. Twinkly 1, twinkly 2 twinkly 3 and so on. I then took a silver sharpie and wrote that name on the power block on 3 sides so I could see the name from most angles. Once named that is what you will see in the app for each device. I also wrote the name on each box. That made my life much easier. I like to create new groups and do different things with them so an easy naming of each really helped.
Is there any benefit to including the String's original Twinkly_xxxxxx designation in the name? I've done it with and without. Wonder what troubleshooting etc. might require it.
@@ronaldtaylor8509 not that I’ve been able to tell. I think renaming them makes life way easier. You can always reset to factory settings if you need to.
Thanks, I try to keep up with the questions. I also just posted another twinkly video. Added a few more lights. czcams.com/video/CV5urvdGPFc/video.html
@@atx0025 watch for the sales after Christmas. Last year I found some great deals on Twinkly lights on targets website. I watched throughout the year. Got a few good deals on Amazon (returned ones at Amazon warehouse).
Wow I love those lights so much! I bet they’ll be banned soon in lots of places when more people get them because they are so loud, but they’re absolutely amazing.
Twinkly app update 12/7/20. After updating the app a firmware update is needed on gen II devices. The first few I tried to update it failed and I lost connection with those devices. I did the following to get them back on. 1. Restarted my IPhone. 2. The devices that failed on the firmware update I unplugged the device, after plugging back in you get the option to update again. That worked on 4 of my devices that failed to update.
So you just used the 600 rgb color strings? Did you just keep wrapping back and forth when setting up parts like the bushes and edge of the roof ? I wanna do this to my house just trying to get ideas
Hello! Looks awesome great job. Have a question about how you ran the lights. Did you use multiple rows of the 600 on the outline of the house ? Or just one single row?
Just to make sure we are on the same page I dont have the twinkly pros I have the regular gen 2s. The only difference in what I have done in programming vs programming a single set is creating a group in the twinkly app then selecting large scene. After that you run through the mapping just like normal in the app on your phone. Note that 3D mapping isn’t an option when selecting large scene. Hope this help, let me know if you have more questions. Will try to help if I can.
I have a set up of 16 Twinkly devices on a dedicated router all around my house and roof lines, driveway and sidewalk. RGBW and about 5,650 LED’s total. Most of the time I join them together opposed to as scene so I can do 3D mapping, but it takes around 85 steps and usually crashes. 2d is definitely easier, but doesn’t map everything. How did you get 2d mapping to pick up around the turns and up high?
I just uploaded a new video czcams.com/video/CV5urvdGPFc/video.html with 4,600 lights on the front of the house now. I also have about 1,200 inside the house. I do not have a dedicated router and I am now starting to get some crashes and errors. I think I am pushing my router to its limit and may need to go the dedicated path. I’ve been lucky with 2d mapping, I can get out far enough into the street to map everything at once. There are a few spots out of site that are not in sync as much as I would like. I have not tried tiling individual mapped lights yet. May try that this weekend.
They're great when they work, but a real pain when they don't. Got a 400 led string, and they just plain refuse to work through the home router. The app sees them, asks for network password, then nothing. Same thing after firmware update. Resetting and trying didn't work as well. Saw suggestions to disable 5g network, turned it off on the router, which yielded (predictably) no results. And there's no provision for 3d mapping when connected directly. They could do it by caching the pictures and uploading it from the app after switching back to home network, but well, looks like when you're out of luck, you're on your own.
I think once you get the hang of it they are fairly easy to use. After you connect them to your router make sure you reconnect your phone to your router. The biggest problem I had when I first started was understanding that your phone has to be connected to your WiFi after your lights are connected to the WiFi. If you drop WiFi and switch to data it won’t work.
If the ice lights don’t connect to each other how are you making this work without 30 extension cords and power outlets. I wanna get some but the reviews says it’s not easy to make work
Not sure what you mean by ice lights but I have mainly the 600 strands of twinkly lights. The 600 are really long. I have 1 or 2 locations that all the lights run back to. I have a few extension cords but was able to hide most of them.
Hi guy so with the gen 2's do you map each strand of lights separately and then group them together? Where did you buy yours for $199 if you don't mind me asking? Can't find them anywhere for that price!
I bought them on Amazon a few months ago. I had some Gen I last year so I watched all year and bought gen IIs as I saw them on sale. You can map each individually and tile them together but I think that’s the hard way. I mapped these as 1 big scene. If you read some of my other responses you will see my notes about staying connected to WiFi and trying to stand far enough back to map it all together.
I used a hot glue gun for most of the locations. I’ll try to get an edited video out in the next few days with some up close pictures of the light strings so you can see it.
@@jasonduvall1 we’re you ever able to post this video? As I’ve read in your comments, you used one run higher and one run lower. So that means 4x “lines”? Since the 600 runs in double line? Two up high and two down low
I don’t have pros, what I can tell you is for my gen IIs when I am in the twinkly app I hit the devices button on the bottom right. In that section is a button that says create group.
How did you get the whole house sync so well? I tried it on mine and it has such odd 3d maps. Can you tell me your steps for adding them please. Where did you start from? How did you 3d map it? Did you go close? Cause some of mine didn't work unless I went close up. Thanks in advance
I keep it simple. Picked east mapping, stood in almost the same location as where I took the video from to map it. I had to relocate my router to the front of the house so I wouldn’t loose my WiFi connection when standing in the street. Turned my phone horizontal and mapped it. Hopefully this helps. Reminder you need to keep your network connection when mapping.
These are all Gen II 600 light RBG. My answer to the cost question is “not cheap”. I started picking up twinkly lights in Nov of 2019. Throughout the year I have been buying them on sale.
Can you give estimate on the linear feet to your roof line? Did you zigzag the 600 strand up and down or multiple long runs? It almost looks like you clustered them. Thanks in advance.
The roof line is roughly 70 feet. I ran an upper line and a lower line (straight lines). They are roughly 3 inches apart that’s why they have the clustered look. I used one set of 600 for the roof line.
Are these the generation 2 . Also did you install the dongle inside to go with it. An if so with the music dongle does it work well wit lights far from wifi?
Awesome set up. I've been looking for someone who has done not only trees and garage but also along the roof. Reading through I see where you went over what you used. Do you map the lights once they are in place and is it a map for each group?
Thanks! Also I noticed someone else had asked about extension cords. You only used 3? Could you let me know which ones you used? Appreciate your help, going to start setting the lights up this weekend!
@@jasonduvall1 Have you ever tried an Android phone with this setup? There is "warning" that 'features' are unavailable on Android app but not actually specified.
I put them up in October and leave them until the second week of January. I use them for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. I have more recent videos than this one showing more lights I have added if you want to check them out. Will be adding my finished light video later this week.
These are regular gen 2s, not pros. I will guess you are having the same issue I had mapping a large area. You have to be back far enough to get your set up in the view of your camera. I found a few times that I was to far from my router so I was dropping from my home WiFi and my phone was going to cellular data without me knowing it. When you lose your WiFi it will not map. I moved my router closer to the front of my house so my WiFi reached farther and I could stand in the street and still be connected to my WiFi. Hope this helps.
@@jasonduvall1 Yes we are having exactly the same problem! Thank you so much for the advice, really useful to us! We have the lights round 2 windows on the house so we will try mapping from further away. Did you map them in daylight or in the dark?
@@JillatHome Map just before full darkness. Brighter light gives poor contrast for detection. Dark produces confusing halos. Avoid reflections; even from wet surfaces.
Did you ever Sync Group or Join Group these strings before doing this Scene Group? I understand a Group has to be Deleted to make former content Strings available to include in a different Group. I wonder if they also have to be Reset or remapped before tasking them to a different group. Maybe the unique Large Scene 2-D Mapping overrides a String's mapping it has from a Sync group which demands individual 3-D String Mapping before assigning to the group.
@@jasonduvall1 Ah, then it is simply remapped according to the type of new group. So, in order to assign a given String to a group, it can not already be a member of another different group? The other group has to be deleted just to reassign only one of its member strings? That' surprising since I've noticed all networked & powered Strings appear on the App's Create Group list whether they have been assigned to a group or not. I haven't tried to 'double assign' yet. Have you?
@@ronaldtaylor8509 once they are in a group it will not give an option to add them to another group or add new ones to a current group (in the app) Really it only takes a few min to delete a group and start a new one then remap. For me it’s not a big deal. I like messing with them and trying new set ups anyway.
@@jasonduvall1 You mentioned you like to try different setups. When you want to alter a group, is it necessary to delete it? Then don't you lose the Playlist setup for it as well as any custom Effects you created while it was 'open'?
I have way less extension cords than I did with my old school lights. With some quick planning I was able to run just about half of the lights from one location and the other half from a second location. I used to run a dozen or more extension cords with my old school lights. With the twinkly like set up I have here I have 3 extension cords.
On your roof line, let’s say the lower one, is that one set of lights? Is your controller in the center or to one side? I set up my lights but I can’t see one side of my house when I’m mapping. I’m trying to figure out how to work around it but I might have to ignore it. I have a 600 and 250 set and the controllers are on opposite sides of the house. I may have to reconfigure.
@@Cheddarbobm the upper roof line is 1 set of 600 and the lower roof line is 1 separate set of 600. On both I have the controller to one side (the left).
Will do my best to explain 1. The palm tree on the left has one set of 600 on it. 2. The bushes behind the palm tree have one set of 600. This includes the small bushes under the windows. 3. Starting from the left (behind the palm tree) the roof line has one set of 600. That set goes from the left all the way to the right and returns down the side of my house about 20 feet (can’t be seen in video) The one set of 600 was enough to run two lines. One upper and another about 3 inches lower. Basically half of the 600 was enough to go all the way across. Hope I explained this well enough. 4. The garage roof line is one set of 600. This goes from my entry door across the front (over the garages) and returns roughly 30 feet down my side yard that can’t be seen in the video. I also did two lines here. One upper and a second a few inches lower just like the upper roof line. 5. At the garage doors. One set of 600 again with two lines run. This set framed the garage doors and covered some of the bushes to the left of the garage. 6. One set of 600 to complete the bushes next to the garage. Hopefully this is helpful. Let me know if you have more questions.
@Craig Cruz I have an upper string of lights and a lower string of lights on all the eves and at the garage doors. They are a few inches apart. Thats what makes each area look so full.
I only have a few extension cords. I use the 600 light strands of the twinklys. They are really long so it cuts down on how many extension cords you have to use.
Most of them came from amazon. Best Buy usually has them on sale on their website. Seems like September is the best time to buy, that’s when I notice them at the lowest price at various retailers.
Why are the color bands moving vertically on large objects and horizontally on eves when running the same Effect on both? I have this trouble with a Sync group too. One tree is 45 degree skewed compared to the other.
Has to do with the angle of where you map from. I mapped from the same location that I shot the video from. From that location the phone is looking up at an angle at the house. Ideally you want to be as straight on and level as possible.
@@jasonduvall1 Ah, that's not mentioned in their many guides. I made a 2-shrub Sync group with the new multi-photo 3-D Mapping. They are only 3 foot high globes. I happened to map the first one standing up. I kneeled for the other. The first one displays what is supposed to be horizontal color bands at a 45 degree diagonal. Its Color Carousel effect converge point location is horribly different too. Also, possibly the location of the 'converge' point (visual location where some Effects rotate about or radiate to/from) is determined by where you aim the first Mapping shot on the object. I had only done a Join group until this year. Didn't expect a Sync group to be so finicky.
I ran two straight lines. An upper and lower. They are roughly 3 inches apart. That’s what gives it a clustered or beefy look. I used a hot glue gone because my facia is stucco. Hopefully this answers your question.
The gen 2s I have are listed as IP weatherproof. Doing a quick internet search says that means “protected against solid objects that are bigger than 1mm and water splashing from all directions”. I have mine set up in a way that the controller is protected from direct rain or water. Other than that I would direct you to the twinkly web site for more info. www.twinkly.com
Note to make things easier. When setting up each device I named them individually. Twinkly 1, twinkly 2 twinkly 3 and so on. I then took a silver sharpie and wrote that name on the power block on 3 sides so I could see the name from most angles. Once named that is what you will see in the app for each device. I also wrote the name on each box. That made my life much easier. I like to create new groups and do different things with them so an easy naming of each really helped.
Is there any benefit to including the String's original Twinkly_xxxxxx designation in the name? I've done it with and without. Wonder what troubleshooting etc. might require it.
@@ronaldtaylor8509 not that I’ve been able to tell. I think renaming them makes life way easier. You can always reset to factory settings if you need to.
What light set did you use on the gutters?! It looks amazing and how did you attach then?!
Hi guy just wanted to give you a big thumbs up for taking the time to answer all these questions. That is super nice of you.
Thanks, I try to keep up with the questions. I also just posted another twinkly video. Added a few more lights. czcams.com/video/CV5urvdGPFc/video.html
This video made me pull the trigger on redoing my walkway and trees and patio with Twinkly. These look great.
Glad to hear that. Did you get a chance to do your yard yet?
@@jasonduvall1 I wasn't able to find enough Gen II to be totally happy but I did. I need to get a video. I haven't mapped it all.
@@atx0025 watch for the sales after Christmas. Last year I found some great deals on Twinkly lights on targets website. I watched throughout the year. Got a few good deals on Amazon (returned ones at Amazon warehouse).
@@atx0025 I put up a few more. See attached video czcams.com/video/CV5urvdGPFc/video.html
Oh wow, this looks incredible. Might have to get some more for myself, I want a house like this!
That is AWESOME!!! great job!!
Great Setup!
Thanks
Wow I love those lights so much! I bet they’ll be banned soon in lots of places when more people get them because they are so loud, but they’re absolutely amazing.
Very Nice and I am Sure not many have started using Twinkly So extensively.
Twinkly app update 12/7/20. After updating the app a firmware update is needed on gen II devices. The first few I tried to update it failed and I lost connection with those devices. I did the following to get them back on.
1. Restarted my IPhone.
2. The devices that failed on the firmware update I unplugged the device, after plugging back in you get the option to update again. That worked on 4 of my devices that failed to update.
Great info guy. Thanks!
The 600 strands are on sell at bestbuy.com for $149 right now.
So you just used the 600 rgb color strings? Did you just keep wrapping back and forth when setting up parts like the bushes and edge of the roof ? I wanna do this to my house just trying to get ideas
Looks awesome but not to the wallet ☹
That looks expensive.
Wish they were cheaper 😕
Looks great. How did you get power to the strands across the house and garage? Did you have to run a separate extension cord to each string?
Hi that looks awesome just got some lights but I’m curious how do you hang or mount them the instructions say not to use with hooks nails and staples?
I used a hot glue gun
Hello! Looks awesome great job. Have a question about how you ran the lights. Did you use multiple rows of the 600 on the outline of the house ? Or just one single row?
Multiple Rows (2 rows) at all the eves.
Twinkly are the best lights but they expensive af for a couple leds
I would love to see how are you did the programming setting it up and how much different it is then the regular residential twinkly lights
Just to make sure we are on the same page I dont have the twinkly pros I have the regular gen 2s. The only difference in what I have done in programming vs programming a single set is creating a group in the twinkly app then selecting large scene. After that you run through the mapping just like normal in the app on your phone. Note that 3D mapping isn’t an option when selecting large scene. Hope this help, let me know if you have more questions. Will try to help if I can.
@@jasonduvall1 r these the rgb or rgbw?
and how do you program the sides, when you capture the image from the front
@@ccruzzzin__ these are RBG. The RBG do have a blueish white though, not a warm white color.
"I would like to see how are you did ".
SAY WHAT? If ur gonna comment learn English first
Pardon me for asking, but how did you map where each light was to get the effects you were seeking?
I have a set up of 16 Twinkly devices on a dedicated router all around my house and roof lines, driveway and sidewalk. RGBW and about 5,650 LED’s total. Most of the time I join them together opposed to as scene so I can do 3D mapping, but it takes around 85 steps and usually crashes. 2d is definitely easier, but doesn’t map everything. How did you get 2d mapping to pick up around the turns and up high?
I just uploaded a new video czcams.com/video/CV5urvdGPFc/video.html with 4,600 lights on the front of the house now. I also have about 1,200 inside the house. I do not have a dedicated router and I am now starting to get some crashes and errors. I think I am pushing my router to its limit and may need to go the dedicated path. I’ve been lucky with 2d mapping, I can get out far enough into the street to map everything at once. There are a few spots out of site that are not in sync as much as I would like. I have not tried tiling individual mapped lights yet. May try that this weekend.
They're great when they work, but a real pain when they don't. Got a 400 led string, and they just plain refuse to work through the home router. The app sees them, asks for network password, then nothing. Same thing after firmware update. Resetting and trying didn't work as well. Saw suggestions to disable 5g network, turned it off on the router, which yielded (predictably) no results. And there's no provision for 3d mapping when connected directly. They could do it by caching the pictures and uploading it from the app after switching back to home network, but well, looks like when you're out of luck, you're on your own.
I think once you get the hang of it they are fairly easy to use. After you connect them to your router make sure you reconnect your phone to your router. The biggest problem I had when I first started was understanding that your phone has to be connected to your WiFi after your lights are connected to the WiFi. If you drop WiFi and switch to data it won’t work.
This sealed the deal for me buying my first set of 600. Thanks for posting. What all did you use to hang them over the garage?
I have stucco eves and facia so I used a hot glue gun.
This video shows the twinkly pro lights not the typical residential ones
They are not pros. I have the regular gen 2s.
@@jasonduvall1 does the hot glue mess up your stucco or lift strands?
If the ice lights don’t connect to each other how are you making this work without 30 extension cords and power outlets. I wanna get some but the reviews says it’s not easy to make work
Not sure what you mean by ice lights but I have mainly the 600 strands of twinkly lights. The 600 are really long. I have 1 or 2 locations that all the lights run back to. I have a few extension cords but was able to hide most of them.
Hi guy so with the gen 2's do you map each strand of lights separately and then group them together? Where did you buy yours for $199 if you don't mind me asking? Can't find them anywhere for that price!
I bought them on Amazon a few months ago. I had some Gen I last year so I watched all year and bought gen IIs as I saw them on sale. You can map each individually and tile them together but I think that’s the hard way. I mapped these as 1 big scene. If you read some of my other responses you will see my notes about staying connected to WiFi and trying to stand far enough back to map it all together.
@@jasonduvall1 roger that! Thanks!
Wow😍😍
Great job man! Did you map your big scene with your phone held vertically or horizontally.
Horizontal
@@jasonduvall1 Thanks for the reply.
very nice congratulations! how many light did you place on the palm tree? only the stem how high is it about?
Have you ever tried the direct wifi connection?
I read. you can only connect 10 devices. is that correct or have you connect more than 10 devices with your app?
I would live to see how you made the edges of the rooftop with just strings and not using cluster lights? And how you connect them to the edges?
I used a hot glue gun for most of the locations. I’ll try to get an edited video out in the next few days with some up close pictures of the light strings so you can see it.
@@jasonduvall1 Fantastic! Love your house..
@@jasonduvall1 we’re you ever able to post this video? As I’ve read in your comments, you used one run higher and one run lower. So that means 4x “lines”? Since the 600 runs in double line? Two up high and two down low
I have twinkly pro 2 generation how do u group the lights appreciate if u could help.thanks for your time
I don’t have pros, what I can tell you is for my gen IIs when I am in the twinkly app I hit the devices button on the bottom right. In that section is a button that says create group.
@@jasonduvall1 thanks man appreciate it
So I thought the 600 strand didn’t have white? Looks pretty white to me
It’s kind of a blueish white, not a warm white.
How did you get the whole house sync so well? I tried it on mine and it has such odd 3d maps. Can you tell me your steps for adding them please. Where did you start from? How did you 3d map it? Did you go close? Cause some of mine didn't work unless I went close up. Thanks in advance
I keep it simple. Picked east mapping, stood in almost the same location as where I took the video from to map it. I had to relocate my router to the front of the house so I wouldn’t loose my WiFi connection when standing in the street. Turned my phone horizontal and mapped it. Hopefully this helps. Reminder you need to keep your network connection when mapping.
Can you show how you installed it?
I'm curious too, especially how it's "stacked" around the gutter/roof line.
@@Griffology It looks like this person did a combo of strands, clusters and nets.
@@Griffology check my question he answered - he ran two straight lines about 3 in apart to created the clustered look in the eaves
Red Scanner (0:38)...
How to turn your house into a Cylon.
Glad someone picked up on that
sooooooo amazing your homeee
Thanks
Just uploaded a new video with a few more twinkly lights czcams.com/video/CV5urvdGPFc/video.html
Which types of Twinkly lights did you hang from your gutters & what was the total cost of the whole setup?
These are all Gen II 600 light RBG. My answer to the cost question is “not cheap”. I started picking up twinkly lights in Nov of 2019. Throughout the year I have been buying them on sale.
@@jasonduvall1 thanks for the tip. You have the BEST outdoor setup I've seen so far man. Well done. When do these tend to go on sale?
How did u do that pls help me I try everything and nothing working all are 2 gene
No one ever posts how many of each they bought and costs
It says right in the description 5 sets of 600.
I bought each set of 600 for $199
czcams.com/video/CV5urvdGPFc/video.html
@@jasonduvall1 Thank you!
@@jasonduvall1 If I want to do a window only thats 8ft by 4ft and create a blanket effect so I can play video animation what should i do?
Can you give estimate on the linear feet to your roof line? Did you zigzag the 600 strand up and down or multiple long runs? It almost looks like you clustered them. Thanks in advance.
The roof line is roughly 70 feet. I ran an upper line and a lower line (straight lines). They are roughly 3 inches apart that’s why they have the clustered look. I used one set of 600 for the roof line.
@@jasonduvall1 Wow! You used one 600 for the whole roof? Wow that’s awesome! Thank you this helps tremendously.
@@jasonduvall1 I think I saw you said these are all RGB lights instead of RGBW. Correct?
@@Melissa-bl9we correct I have RBG not RBGW.
@@jasonduvall1 great thank you!
how many different products can you connect all together?
I believe you can have 10 devices in a single group working together. I don’t think there’s a limit to how many groups you can have.
How would you do this if you had a tree in the way of the roof line
. Please help. I want to do this to my house. How did you map all of them and its it all controlled with the app?
what twinkly lights control unit are you using for your light display?
I have gen 2 twinkly lights. Each strand has its own controller and you group them together from the twinkly app.
I'm in for next year just give all details ... showtime !
Are these the generation 2 . Also did you install the dongle inside to go with it. An if so with the music dongle does it work well wit lights far from wifi?
Yes they are gen 2. I do not the music dongle.
Awesome set up. I've been looking for someone who has done not only trees and garage but also along the roof. Reading through I see where you went over what you used. Do you map the lights once they are in place and is it a map for each group?
Yes you map the lights after you have them installed. I have all of them mapped as 1 group, really easy to do from the twinkly app on my iPhone.
Thanks! Also I noticed someone else had asked about extension cords. You only used 3? Could you let me know which ones you used? Appreciate your help, going to start setting the lights up this weekend!
@@jasonduvall1 Have you ever tried an Android phone with this setup? There is "warning" that 'features' are unavailable on Android app but not actually specified.
I have only used an iPhone.
How is possible I have 3006 lights and I can't put all together at all
You mentioned you hot glue the strings. Do you ever then take them out or they are left there permanently?? Amazing setup.
I put them up in October and leave them until the second week of January. I use them for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. I have more recent videos than this one showing more lights I have added if you want to check them out. Will be adding my finished light video later this week.
Hi are these the regular Twinkly lights or the Twinkly Pro? I bought the regular twinkly lights and having problems mapping them for large areas!
These are regular gen 2s, not pros. I will guess you are having the same issue I had mapping a large area. You have to be back far enough to get your set up in the view of your camera. I found a few times that I was to far from my router so I was dropping from my home WiFi and my phone was going to cellular data without me knowing it. When you lose your WiFi it will not map. I moved my router closer to the front of my house so my WiFi reached farther and I could stand in the street and still be connected to my WiFi. Hope this helps.
@@jasonduvall1 Yes we are having exactly the same problem! Thank you so much for the advice, really useful to us! We have the lights round 2 windows on the house so we will try mapping from further away. Did you map them in daylight or in the dark?
@@JillatHome Map just before full darkness. Brighter light gives poor contrast for detection. Dark produces confusing halos. Avoid reflections; even from wet surfaces.
I agree with Ronald
@@ronaldtaylor8509 That's great thanks for the advice! I will give it a try before dark and hopefully that will work. Thanks!
How much is there in lights here? A set of 600 is £185 how much money do you have 😲
How many lights did you use for this?
Are these the cluster or string lights?
Did you ever Sync Group or Join Group these strings before doing this Scene Group? I understand a Group has to be Deleted to make former content Strings available to include in a different Group. I wonder if they also have to be Reset or remapped before tasking them to a different group. Maybe the unique Large Scene 2-D Mapping overrides a String's mapping it has from a Sync group which demands individual 3-D String Mapping before assigning to the group.
Once you delete the group you can make new groups or go back to single devices. You do not need to reset.
@@jasonduvall1 Ah, then it is simply remapped according to the type of new group. So, in order to assign a given String to a group, it can not already be a member of another different group? The other group has to be deleted just to reassign only one of its member strings? That' surprising since I've noticed all networked & powered Strings appear on the App's Create Group list whether they have been assigned to a group or not. I haven't tried to 'double assign' yet. Have you?
@@ronaldtaylor8509 once they are in a group it will not give an option to add them to another group or add new ones to a current group (in the app) Really it only takes a few min to delete a group and start a new one then remap. For me it’s not a big deal. I like messing with them and trying new set ups anyway.
Hi, are the lights running over the rooftops cluster or strings, please?
They are strings run a few inches apart
@@jasonduvall1 So, for example, one set running back and forth?
I understand this display is a Scene group. After the Nov 5th App update, have you tried the Playlist on it?
Yes, I like it. Really easy to set the playlist and duration of each one.
@@jasonduvall1 You mentioned you like to try different setups. When you want to alter a group, is it necessary to delete it? Then don't you lose the Playlist setup for it as well as any custom Effects you created while it was 'open'?
Great job!! Did you have to use a lot of extension cords? I was reading that the strings don’t connect end to end...
I have way less extension cords than I did with my old school lights. With some quick planning I was able to run just about half of the lights from one location and the other half from a second location. I used to run a dozen or more extension cords with my old school lights. With the twinkly like set up I have here I have 3 extension cords.
On your roof line, let’s say the lower one, is that one set of lights? Is your controller in the center or to one side? I set up my lights but I can’t see one side of my house when I’m mapping. I’m trying to figure out how to work around it but I might have to ignore it. I have a 600 and 250 set and the controllers are on opposite sides of the house. I may have to reconfigure.
@@Cheddarbobm the upper roof line is 1 set of 600 and the lower roof line is 1 separate set of 600. On both I have the controller to one side (the left).
@@Cheddarbobm I have the same problem when trying to map the right side of the house, the section out of view of the camera
can you provide a list of all the lights you used for this set up please?
There are 5 sets of the 600 twinkly lights.
Im trying to figure out how much coverage I would get with one set. Could you break down where the sets are ?
Will do my best to explain
1. The palm tree on the left has one set of 600 on it.
2. The bushes behind the palm tree have one set of 600. This includes the small bushes under the windows.
3. Starting from the left (behind the palm tree) the roof line has one set of 600. That set goes from the left all the way to the right and returns down the side of my house about 20 feet (can’t be seen in video) The one set of 600 was enough to run two lines. One upper and another about 3 inches lower. Basically half of the 600 was enough to go all the way across. Hope I explained this well enough.
4. The garage roof line is one set of 600. This goes from my entry door across the front (over the garages) and returns roughly 30 feet down my side yard that can’t be seen in the video. I also did two lines here. One upper and a second a few inches lower just like the upper roof line.
5. At the garage doors. One set of 600 again with two lines run. This set framed the garage doors and covered some of the bushes to the left of the garage.
6. One set of 600 to complete the bushes next to the garage.
Hopefully this is helpful. Let me know if you have more questions.
@@jasonduvall1 how did you mount them
On the roof line? Staple gun etc..
Hot glue gun. I have stucco eves/facia. I used a staple gun at the garage doors because I have wood there.
@Craig Cruz I have an upper string of lights and a lower string of lights on all the eves and at the garage doors. They are a few inches apart. Thats what makes each area look so full.
How long are your extention cords & about how many did you use?
I only have a few extension cords. I use the 600 light strands of the twinklys. They are really long so it cuts down on how many extension cords you have to use.
@@jasonduvall1 thanks man for all your speedy replies. Your insight has been very helpful
Any thoughts on using your set up with the music dongle?
I think I will give the dongle a try this year
How much did this cost
Where did u purchased the twinkly lights from ?
Most of them came from amazon. Best Buy usually has them on sale on their website. Seems like September is the best time to buy, that’s when I notice them at the lowest price at various retailers.
@@jasonduvall1 how much did you buy it for in September?
Strings only?
What did you use to hang them on the roof
I used a hot glue gun just about everywhere on the house except around the garage doors. At the garage doors I used a staple gun.
Why are the color bands moving vertically on large objects and horizontally on eves when running the same Effect on both? I have this trouble with a Sync group too. One tree is 45 degree skewed compared to the other.
Has to do with the angle of where you map from. I mapped from the same location that I shot the video from. From that location the phone is looking up at an angle at the house. Ideally you want to be as straight on and level as possible.
@@jasonduvall1 Ah, that's not mentioned in their many guides. I made a 2-shrub Sync group with the new multi-photo 3-D Mapping. They are only 3 foot high globes. I happened to map the first one standing up. I kneeled for the other. The first one displays what is supposed to be horizontal color bands at a 45 degree diagonal. Its Color Carousel effect converge point location is horribly different too. Also, possibly the location of the 'converge' point (visual location where some Effects rotate about or radiate to/from) is determined by where you aim the first Mapping shot on the object. I had only done a Join group until this year. Didn't expect a Sync group to be so finicky.
How much did all of the lights cost ?
A lot. I’ve been buying a few sets every year for a couple years now.
What did you use on your bushes?
It’s all the same Twinkly lights
Wie wurde das alles auf eine steuerung gelegt?
Each Twinkly strand of lights has its own controller. You can map them as a single strand or group multiple sets together. From the twinkly app.
How did you do your setup on roofline? Very nice setup
I ran two straight lines. An upper and lower. They are roughly 3 inches apart. That’s what gives it a clustered or beefy look. I used a hot glue gone because my facia is stucco. Hopefully this answers your question.
I meant to say hot glue gun
Super nice setup on the roofline #bossmode
The beefy look u speak about looks sssoooo awesome 👏 #bossmode
I love mine 😍 except I got mine from the original website boundlessprojector.com
Cuánto cuesta para comprar cascade
wherr can i buy these lights?
Amazon, Walmart’s website, targets website and a bunch of other places
Could you give me an estimate on how much that cost?
I have 5 sets of the 600s. Each set of 600 was $199.
@@jasonduvall1 is that all you need or is there a controller or device as well?
you are billionaire
Can you put a link for the ones you have.
Twinkly - TWS600STP 600 RGB Multicolor LED String Lights - App-Controlled LED Christmas Lights with Green Cable (157.5ft) - IoT & Razer Chroma Enabled - Indoor/Outdoor Party Decorations www.amazon.com/dp/B086XJ1RSY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_ANBVFb0Z3DE1D
@@jasonduvall1 thanks
So is it waterproof?
The gen 2s I have are listed as IP weatherproof. Doing a quick internet search says that means “protected against solid objects that are bigger than 1mm and water splashing from all directions”. I have mine set up in a way that the controller is protected from direct rain or water. Other than that I would direct you to the twinkly web site for more info. www.twinkly.com
In my previous post I meant to say they are IP44 weatherproof. Sorry for the incomplete answer before.
Za drgo ceny kosmiczne :(