Glow with *OUR* Show and MSP430G2553 discussion

So I'm way late to the party here but I have been trying to understand the data protocol used in detail over the past year. I see many captured transmission made by the wands. I also have captured live show data inside the park using my laptop with arduino. I was hoping at least to be able to understand the protocol well enough to know what it is I received. I can fudge with bits, change colors, flash speed, etc. but wanted to see if anyone here was able to fully reverse engineer the protocol?
 
I can't believe I have missed all this!

Without reading 45 pages of posts, is there a CURRENT writeup as to whats needed (hardware/software) to sequence the GWTS products using vixen and xlites? Or is that not possible...yet? And is it possible to make our own GWTS items to use? Seems they still are going for $25 and up even on ebay.
 
Everything of what I see is hats being controlled but has anyone successfully emulated a hat that you can throw show data at?
 
Barnabybear said:
Hi, http://christmasonquiethills.com/how-it-all-works/glow-with-the-show/
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In addition to Mater's writeup and progress linked above here are some posts and videos from my site that journal my journey as I wrote/cobbled together the Arduino code Mater references on his site. In the spirit of learning to crawl before walking I've listed them in that order as I crawled and then walked - I don't think we're running yet. :)

Learning to crawl - http://www.amistosolights.com/blog/2013/05/glow-with-our-show/

Learning to stand up - http://www.amistosolights.com/blog/2013/08/glow-with-our-show-update/

Finally walking - http://www.amistosolights.com/blog/2014/03/327/

Good luck, blink on!

-joni-
 
rjchu said:
In addition to Mater's writeup and progress linked above here are some posts and videos from my site that journal my journey as I wrote/cobbled together the Arduino code Mater references on his site. In the spirit of learning to crawl before walking I've listed them in that order as I crawled and then walked - I don't think we're running yet. :)

Learning to crawl - http://www.amistosolights.com/blog/2013/05/glow-with-our-show/

Learning to stand up - http://www.amistosolights.com/blog/2013/08/glow-with-our-show-update/

Finally walking - http://www.amistosolights.com/blog/2014/03/327/

Good luck, blink on!

-joni-
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Freaking brilliant! Thank you!

So, basically yall are running an arduino to receive data from Vixen. Then transmit IR to an IR flood to activate the ears. Right? I know, simple sounding but I fully get the work that went into that simple sounding solution.

Now, how about MAKING of a receiver, ie home made ears/devices? Any work being done on that or is everyone depending on purchased ears from Disney? I don't really like $28 a pop for new ears. I was hoping that something could be made so its our own item rather than branded disney stuff but if anyone brought their disney stuff it too would work.

What about the new items disney has come out with such as the bow (minnie), gloves and wand and such. They are now branded with "Made with Magic". Same protocol?
 
Hi, the recievers were made but the details are somewere in the 450 posts. If I remember correctly they were reindeer baseball caps.
 
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Barnabybear said:
Hi, yes - he did the ears from scratch first then decided that the caps were more hard wearing.
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Unless I missed it (quite possible), I don't see anything like that in this thread. I went page by page looking at photos. I found one hat where someone adopted guts from a set of ears to a ball cap (ie adult sized). I saw no images of anything else that looked like a non-disney ear hat. I didn't read every post of course. I just scanned for photos.

Was it in another thread perhaps?
 
Wolfie said:
Freaking brilliant! Thank you!

So, basically yall are running an arduino to receive data from Vixen. Then transmit IR to an IR flood to activate the ears. Right? I know, simple sounding but I fully get the work that went into that simple sounding solution.

Now, how about MAKING of a receiver, ie home made ears/devices? Any work being done on that or is everyone depending on purchased ears from Disney? I don't really like $28 a pop for new ears. I was hoping that something could be made so its our own item rather than branded disney stuff but if anyone brought their disney stuff it too would work.

What about the new items disney has come out with such as the bow (minnie), gloves and wand and such. They are now branded with "Made with Magic". Same protocol?
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I'm looking for the same thing. Not to make ears but something for our daughters stroller for the shows. From reading through all the threads it looks like they have a good handle on the protocol but I can't find a shared worksheet covering known portions.

On my side I know far less than others about the protocol. What I have done is I have an arduino sketch that I can listen to the IR data during a show and in real time it calculates and verifies the checksum (and removes it) giving me a reliable CSV dump. I also have a VB program that reads the csv files in where I can select rows to retransmit to another arduino that calculates/adds the checksum and sends it on the IR. The biggest difference I use on mine regarding the transmission is I use 1 pwm port giving me the 38khz carrier signal and another connected as a serial port so no need for a resistor and I can use a red led in reverse to "see" the data going out when the LED blinks off.
 
Hi, sorry it was 4 years ago and there were a few threads about at the time.
For anyone following, wanting to make their own ears, hats or what ever. This is the only thread that I know of that achieved that:
http://doityourselfchristmas.com/forums/showthread.php?20918-Infrared-Communication-for-Light-Shows

A lot of work went into this upto 06/26/2012.

Distance Test: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...978#post211978
Battery Test: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...032#post212032
IR TX/RX Test: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...241#post212241
GECE Control with IR Test: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...253#post212253
Transmitter Range Test: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...352#post212352
Inversion of Logic Increases Range & Schematic: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...386#post212386
Increaing Baud Affect on Reliability: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...420#post212420
Headset Protoype: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...432#post212432
Outside Range Testing: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...481#post212481
Complete System with Vixen - End to End Test : http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...505#post212505
4800 Baud Achieved: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...384#post213384
Range/Distance Outside Test w/57kHz Carrier: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...914#post213914
Multiple Transmitters: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...961#post213961
Prototype I Manufacturing -Headband Style: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...981#post236981
Coin Cell Battery Test: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...337#post237337
Weight Breakdown of Headset: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...183#post238183
New Rudolf Headset with Baseball Cap: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...979#post238979
Preliminary Real Show Test of Headset/Transmitter: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...500#post239500
System End to End Test in Live Show; Flicker Elimination: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...471#post240471
IR Reindeer Headset Debut a Success: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...963#post241963
IR Headset Receiver / Transmitter SX Code:http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...492#post242492
Sequencing the Headsets - Easy Method: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...638#post242638
Timing Diagram for IR Communication: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...406#post243406
Logistics of Managing Headsets: http://doityourselfchristmas.com/for...691#post253691

Video of END TO END test (W/Vixen): https://vimeo.com/44708555
Video of Headset in Action: http://youtu.be/b5dlFordOls
Video of All Three Prototype Headsets in Action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBn5vSnY7AA
Video of IR Reindeer Headset Debut: http://youtu.be/9In1cqq8Nyk
 
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Brief scanning there doesn't show any relation to the Disney protocol. Unless I am missing something, those won't work with the disney GWOS stuff. Will read more later.. Thanks for the link(s).
 
hmm. my last post didn't go. What I'm trying to do is receive disneys protocol and trigger ws2812 smart pixels with it (like a strip of 16 or so). Once I get home tonight I will sift through what was shared on the disney protocol to see if I can piece enough of it together.
 
Wolfie said:
Brief scanning there doesn't show any relation to the Disney protocol. Unless I am missing something, those won't work with the disney GWOS stuff. Will read more later.. Thanks for the link(s).
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Very active thread today. :) I haven't read much since my post earlier but the reindeer hats are Lightmans creation and if memory serves they are his own protocol and NOT compatible with GwtS stuff. Re the other question about Made with Magic and the bow hats and paintbrushes, that's that same protocol as the ear hats.

-Joni-
 
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