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I have created a webapp (very ugly, but it works) to control my bar lighting. It's a wall of 3 rows of ~12 bottles. Each bottle can be highlighted individually, per group, or I have configured a few animations.

It's 3 bands of Adafruit Neopixels, which means I could play with colors as well, and it's driven by a Raspberry Pi 1 (accessible on local network only).

Fun fact: it runs on a computer PSU: the Raspberry is low power enough that it run on the stand-by rail, and the PSU is only turned on (by the Pi) when the lighting is on.

Due to how custom and crude it is, I never considered open-sourcing it. It's a fun party trick when I have guests though.



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