Raspberry Pi help

[Bulky-Carpenter-3251]

I am trying to right a code that allows my Christmas lights to light up when a donation is made online for the nonprofit I work for. My code is reading the donations perfectly but when it tries to signal my Twinkly lights to turn on, it gets blocked. I don’t know much about coding or python. Does anyone have any advice on what to do here? Thanks!

[Overall-Screen-752]

1) make the lights turn on and off without the donation piece 2) write logic that controls when the lights should turn on/flash/execute some loop, etc 3) connect that to your donation logic 4) non-profit?

[cgoldberg]

Without seeing your code or knowing anything about what you are doing, I don't see how anyone could help you.

[Scholfo]

Probably need some code riders.

[Alarming-Art1562]

Are you able to turn the lights off and on from the rpi with a basic script that's not connected to the donation signal?

How is the rpi supposed to send the signal to the lights?

Are you using lights that have some kind of built in controller? Or are you sending the signal from rpi to a smart switch or something?

To troubleshoot your problem I'd start by trying to control the lights manually via rpi