A while back one of the Guys on the Homevision List mentioned that he was designing a RGBLED board . Some people showed some interest so the developer Gerry Duprey decided to make them available for others...I was lucky enough to get my hands on 6 of these little beauties.
The boards and parts were supplied in kit form all nicely packaged in anti static bags. Normally I would whip the soldering iron out and start putting them together, but there are 4 surface mounted chips and theres no way I would have a go at soldering them as I dont have the proper tips and eye sight for such delicate work... So I sent them off to my friends board assembly shop to be assembled.. Received the boards back within a week all nicely soldered up ready for testing...
As well as being a hardware Guru Gerry Duprey also writes software apps and has supplied a neat application for testing the RGBLED boards. Did some testing of each board and setup some “Animations”. The user can program up to 32 different colour changes and in my setup I have decided to have 4 groups of 3 leds ,so 8 animation changes per group.
The user can slave one led of another and im using this feature as this allows you to connect multiple RGBLEDS in parallel . So led1 and led2 will follow the status of led0.... led4 and led5 will follow led3...led7 and led8 will follow led6...led10 and led11 will follow led9 and led12 not used.

My current garden led lights are mounted on veroboard and did the job fine , but the RGBLEDS have 4 legs and verobaard would not be a suitable solution in this case.
So my friend John has deigned me a pcb which will fit inside my HPM garden lites.
Im currently (12/Jan /06) waiting for my garden light pcb,s from the manufacturer, so in the meantime I have sorted out the control of the RGBLED Boards and also sourced a suitable housing for each board..
Gerry Duprey is also an xPL Developer and with his assistance I now have xPL4Java (required for RGBLED App) running along side of xPLHAL. I have created loads of Determinators and a event to trigger the lights each evening...I have started running the cables to each location and they will terminate at my humble node 0 and connect to a MSS100 device.The RGBLED board is a receive only board so its possible to daisy chain several of them them together.
Since my cable runs might be a little long I have the baud rate set at 9600.
My evening event kicks of at 8pm . Starting with colour animation followed by commands to set all garden lights to the same colour ie red green blue white orange....followed by commands to set each garden light to a specific colour as in the pic above.... Housing PCB,s Garden Lites Mushroom Lites Stem Lites Bathroom Lites RGBLed Tester
RGBLED Sequencer Front Stem Lites