
_ x GE Outdoor Z-wave Switches (you fill in the blank)ġ x Raspbian + Simple Automated Christmas Pre-configured image ( Alternate Image – Removed some Rasbian Features to make it smaller.) To Get Started, You Need:ġ x Aeon Labs Z-Stick Series 2 Z-wave Controller I want to drive up and have them on and go to sleep without having to worry about shutting them off. For me, at least at this point, that is all I want. The protocol focuses on wireless mesh network reliability, stability and status reporting over speed. Normal warning: Automating your Christmas lights with Z-wave does not draw in the same crowd as the musical choreographed Christmas lights. I will still try to help, by using Javascript to put your computer’s timezone at the top of the list but none of this gets saved to the server. If you don’t want your Pi geo locating itself, boot it once with it disconnected from the internet and set your timezone. No data is sent to me during this process. This automation allows it to get started without accessing the web interface. It will try to automatically figure out what timezone to use and the coordinates to figure out dawn and dusk to use. For most people, you will only need to pair the devices and turn it on. Setup is incredibly easy (I hope) and the instructions and what you need to get started are below. By default the lights will come on at dusk and go off about 6 hours later.

I created a basic Z-wave zoned system so I can set and forget the lights again this year.

Winter freaking wonderland! How to Automate your Christmas Lights with Open-Zwave: Raspberry Pi controlled automated Christmas lights are going up this week. I cannot wait until Thanksgiving to put up my outdoor Christmas lights.
