🎄 McTavish Christmas Light Show 2024 🎄

Come see our Christmas light display!
Music played on speakers for those on foot.
For those in vehicles, tune to FM 106.1
If you want to see all the songs, traffic is lower after 11pm
We keep it going for 1 week after Christmas in case you missed it before!

📍 Location

30 McTavish Bvd
75CX+VH
Google Maps

⏰ Show Times

Dec 5 -> 19: 8:30 PM -> Midnight
Dec 20 -> 25: 8:30 PM -> 01:00 AM
Dec 26 -> 29: 8:30 PM -> 11:00 PM (Radio Only, Speakers will be off)

Get Involved

Making sequences is a time consuming, but rewarding process.
We wish we could have heaps of songs, and have several in the works, but have not had the time.
If you want to give it a try, download the Layout for xLights and give it a shot
Think you got the skills to help, or want to see your creation played, get in touch on BlueSky!
Download xLights Layout
xLights Website
Get in touch on Bluesky @McTavishLightShow.bsky.social

How it works

That is complex to answer, short and simple.
Almost every LED is individually controlled, wired back to a control board, controlled by a computer, which plays the sequence and music together.
A few different types of controllers are responsible for driving the LEDs
The sequence is made in xLights, the software for playing the sequence is Falcon Player, and the Control Board is by Hanson Electronics.

The Numbers

9000 individually controlled LEDs
1800 grouped LEDs (the lawn lights)
9x 350W power supplies (it needs nearly all of it)
6 months to build (yes, all hand made)

Just works?

Nope, might get a few days of no issues, but an hour a day on maintenance is typical.
Someone walks on the lawn and rips a wire, an LED fails, a cable tie breaks, you name it, with 10's of thousands of connections, theres always something waiting to go wrong.
So if you see a problem, please let us know, we will fix it straight away, but we sometimes miss the faults till the next day, because we dont know.