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How to use Cantina Lights

Cantina Lights is an App that controls a set of Cantina Lights using Bluetooth on your iPhone or iPad.

(Note: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.)


Turn on the lights and start up the app.

Easy to use.

Choose a color

Choose an option

Purple

Breeze

Color Buttons

The color buttons are intuitive. The          multi button displays many colors dependent on what option button is selected.

Pattern Buttons

Chord - Displays a medley of patterns (twinkling, breezing shifting, fading, and steady) all in colors of your choosing. The following represents a chord made up of 3 colors. Red, Green, and Blue. Repeating.



Team - Displays a medley of patterns (twinkling and shifting; dimming and brightening; steady and breezing; fire and water; comets and racers) all in your team colors. The following represents Team USA.


Playlist - Displays a user recorded playlist.


Holiday -Displays changing patterns for Valentines, St Patrick, Easter, Cinco de Mayo, July 4, Halloween, and Christmas.


Rainbow - Displays a repeating rainbow of 8 colors rotating back and forth.


To Use Morph

1 - Select a color, or color with option, or a pattern.

2 - Select Morph. (A snapshot of the  lights is taken. )

3 - Select a different color.  The lights will change from the snapshot to the selected color and back again.

Choose a Pattern

Option Buttons

Each option button has multiple selections. Keep tapping the button to cycle through the possible choices.


Shake - Energetic shifting

Sparkle - Glitter and twinkle

Fire - Candle flame

Breeze - Subtle wafting

Comet - Pixels in orbit

H2O - Rain and ripples

Morph - One color to another

Show - All of the above

To Change the Team colors:

1 - Double tap Team.

2 - Select a color.

3 - Single tap Team.

4 - Repeat 2 and 3

5 - Double tap Team to finish.

You can record up to 8 colors in Team.

To change the Chord colors:

1 - Double tap Chord.

2 - Select a color.

3 - Single tap Chord.

4 - Repeat 2 and 3 as desired.

5 - Double tap Chord to finish.

You can record up to 8 colors in your chord.

To Record Team playlist:

1 - Press and hold Team until display reads

"Begin Recording". (Each of your team colors will be selected.)

2 - Select an option. (Uses all selected colors.)

3 - Single tap Team. (Records one pattern.)

4 - Select a color. (Selects only one color.)

5 - Select an option. (Uses selected color.)

6 - Single tap Team. (Records one pattern.)

7 - Repeat 2-3 or 4-6.

8 - Press and hold Team to finish.

You can record up to 40 patterns in the Team playlist.

To record Playlist:

1 - Press and hold Playlist until display reads "Begin Recording".

2 - Select a pattern, color, and/or option.. 3 - Single tap Playlist.

4 - Repeat 2 and 3.

5 - Press and hold Playlist to finish.

You can record up to 399 patterns in the Playlist.

Reset - Starts the demo playlist.

To Reset the Cantina Lights back to factory settings:

Tap and hold Reset until “Mater Reset” is displayed.

Brightness Slider


Brightness controls overall brightness of Cantina Lights.

If the slider is moved to the far left

i.e.  “Sleeping”, the lights will be off.


Note: the Cantina Lights will still be consuming power. To conserve energy, disconnect power to Cantina Lights.

Tempo Slider


Tempo controls how fast the patterns change from one pattern to the next pattern in the playlist. The following are approximate times.


Glacial = 16 mins

Very Slow = 8 mins

Slower = 4 mins

Slow = 2 mins

Medium = 1 min

Fast = 30 secs

Faster = 16 secs

Very Fast = 8 secs

Light Speed = 4 secs

Press and hold.                                                      logo to view:


Config Screen

The config screen lets you turn on feedback which is used in advanced playlist recording. This screen lets you name your lights, which is helpful when you have multiple sets. It also displays whether the light is selected for control by the app. In addition, you can search for other Cantina Lights.

Tap the row named “Lite 1” to view:


Detail Config Screen

This screen lets you change the name of a set of lights. It lets you unselect the lights for control by the app. The 3 buttons will change the named set of lights to the indicated colors which will help you identify which set of lights you wish to rename.

Feedback explained.

Turn on Feedback found in Config Screen.

On the main screen tap “Orange”. Notice display reads “Orange Bright”. This is the feedback message sent from the set of lights. Turning on feedback lets you record a playlist with all patterns displayed by Chord, Team, Holiday, Rainbow, and Show in addition to the other patterns.

To record Playlist using feedback:

1 - Turn on feedback.

2 - Press and hold Playlist until display reads "Begin Recording".

3 - Select a pattern, color, and/or option..

4 - Wait until feedback displays desired pattern.

5 - Single tap Playlist.

6 - Repeat 3 through 5.

7 - Press and hold Playlist to finish.

The following is for multiple sets of lights.


Single tap                                                       logo

This advances control to next set of lights.


Double tap                                                       logo

This selects all sets for control.