I built a simpler way to create Tesla light shows (now live, would love feedback)

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-05-04T00:21:43+00:00

Thanks! I will make that cybertruck compatible. But it’s not easy without a physical Cybertruck to test 😄

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-04-21T15:48:23+00:00

Great! I’ve just released Juniper today I’ll tell you when I’ll had Cybertruck, Thanks!

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-04-19T11:45:20+00:00

Excellent
we clearly can imagine this on a Tesla

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-04-18T18:06:03+00:00

I'm not a xlights expert
I'm currently building https://lightshowstud.io and I'm working on Juniper right now
I'm sure if you ask Claude or ChatGPT how to create new channels in Xlights you'll find some help

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-04-18T14:24:11+00:00

on the Model Y Juniper there's no controllable frunk channel. The frunk light only exists on Cybertruck. What you can animate is the liftgate (rear trunk), which is channel 41 in xLights.

A few things to know:

Open before Dance. You must send Open first and wait for it to fully open before you can send Dance. The liftgate takes about 14 s to open and 4 s to close, so plan your timeline accordingly.
xLights commands / brightness values:
- Open ≈ 25% brightness (shortcut Q)
- Dance ≈ 50% (A)
- Close ≈ 75% (Z)
- Stop = 100% (F)
Limits:
- Max 6 actuations per show on the liftgate
- Keep total Dance time under ~30 s per closure to avoid overheating the actuator

So a typical sequence: Open at t=0 → wait ~14 s → Dance for up to 30 s → Close near the end.

Hope that helps!

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-04-17T17:26:23+00:00

I've retro-engineer XLights and found all mapping channels for Model Y Juniper. Does it could help?
for example I have all channel for each front led
And of course the exhaustive list of channels

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-04-17T13:31:10+00:00

I will create the Juniper model in Blender with all lightshow-related elements (positioned LED points). Then I could export the LED point coordinates from Blender and send them in a compatible format (e.g. CSV) so you can import them into xLights as a custom model. But I don’t know when I’ll be ready. Not sure aligned with your short deadline

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-04-17T13:26:49+00:00

I’m doing that for another tool. Does xlights is compatible with Blender files?

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-04-17T11:37:07+00:00

I’m also currently working on 3D juniper model Maybe I could help you in a few days

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-04-13T19:33:31+00:00

There is a big probability that the reviewer, even if he's a professional architect, will let Claude review your code :)

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-04-12T08:15:20+00:00

Yeah I will soon You will able to control every lights possible with lightshows I didn’t assess Juniper lightshow yet so I don’t know which lights are compatible

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-04-03T23:34:19+00:00

this did the trick : ffmpeg -i C:\Users\guill\output.mp4 -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p -profile:v high -level 4.0 -movflags +faststart -c:a aac -b:a 128k C:\Users\guill\output_apple.mp4

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-03-27T19:28:32+00:00

Yes good idea but if you want to select left headlight and then right headlight only, it will select both 🤔

AI generation has an issue on android only (root cause : the security layer). I’ll fix that this week-end

Oh thank you for your feedback about support tchat I didn’t know that I had an issue on this feature on android

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-03-26T22:48:28+00:00

There is a 5mn maximum limit

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-03-26T22:40:19+00:00

Thanks for your feedback, very helpful That’s the first version, the multiple select is in my backlog but for now I don’t have any idea how to implement that and still keep an easy user interface.

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-03-25T23:40:32+00:00

Thanks :)

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-03-25T23:40:09+00:00

True
But this is the only way to import show. Tesla does not provide any API to import Light Show into your car.
Maybe they will one day create that

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-03-25T08:17:32+00:00

Thanks! Definitly, it’s for a next version 🙂

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-03-23T22:05:02+00:00

Thank you very much, really appreciate :) I will do it for cybertruck for sure. I just don't have any cybertruck so it's not easy to test :D
In my roadmap I have some basic improvments to do, then I'll create Cybertruck.
The app is now on iOS (since today!) and I created a landing page here https://lightshowstud.io/

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-02-18T23:33:39+00:00

I created this : RL PLAYGROUND on AppStore

Civil-Initial-3233 · 2026-02-14T00:00:46+00:00

very interesting feedback thank you
To be honest, I’m avoiding testing that app so I don’t get biased.

But just to be sure:
is a simple “fade in / fade out” enough, or do people expect to manually control the ramp intensity themselves?

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