# Build festive lighting for the holidays with balena, Christmas lights **URL:** \ **Category:** Project help\ **Tags:** raspberrypi3\ **Created:** [October 21, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078 "2019-10-21T03:30:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![edgeedj1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@edgeedj1982](https://forums.balena.io/u/edgeedj1982)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 3:30am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/1 "2019-10-21T03:30:02Z")
OK so last year i used my raspberry pi for my Christmas lights and saw this project to use RBG lights with a balenacloud account. it looked really cool so im trying it this year. the only problem is its not working like the instructions say and im stuck. i got everything loaded into the cloud and loaded to my RP but the services wont run like they are supposed to. i cant find a way to contact the guy that made the project to ask for tips or help and i really want this to work. if i can get it to work then i will use it from now on. please someone help me im really new to balena, and coding and dont understand what im doing wrong. ---
**Author:** ![shaunmulligan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/shaunmulligan/32/34_2.png) [@shaunmulligan](https://forums.balena.io/u/shaunmulligan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/2 "2019-10-21T12:17:15Z")
Hi @edgeedj1982 welcome to Balena. Do you have any error logs showing up on your dashboard. Are the services restarting over and over, or did they just not start at all? What version of balenaOS and device type are you using for this project? ---
**Author:** ![edgeedj1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@edgeedj1982](https://forums.balena.io/u/edgeedj1982)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/4 "2019-10-21T19:22:21Z")
Ok so I’m not getting any errors or anything. The services just don’t start. Two of them say downloaded and one says installed, but non of them will start. Even if I try to start them manually still nothing happens. ---
**Author:** ![edgeedj1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@edgeedj1982](https://forums.balena.io/u/edgeedj1982)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 12:29am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/5 "2019-10-22T00:29:35Z")
the balenaOS is balenaOS 2.43.0+rev1 and im using a raspberry pi 3. Sorry i tried to post screenshots but couldn’t figure out how. ---
**Author:** ![afitzek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/afitzek/32/359_2.png) [@afitzek](https://forums.balena.io/u/afitzek)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/6 "2019-10-22T08:45:46Z")
Hi, could you grant us support access to the device and send us the device uuid, so that we can take a look? Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![afitzek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/afitzek/32/359_2.png) [@afitzek](https://forums.balena.io/u/afitzek)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:20am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/10 "2019-10-22T11:20:32Z")
Hi, We where able to reproduce the issue locally, so no need to grant support access or tell us your device uuid. We will investigate and update this thread when we know what is going on. ---
**Author:** ![edgeedj1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@edgeedj1982](https://forums.balena.io/u/edgeedj1982)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/11 "2019-10-22T11:46:08Z")
Awesome thanks ---
**Author:** ![afitzek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/afitzek/32/359_2.png) [@afitzek](https://forums.balena.io/u/afitzek)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:17pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/13 "2019-10-22T17:17:18Z")
Hi, We created an issue in the repo ([https://github.com/balena-io-playground/fadecandy-led-controller/issues/2](https://github.com/balena-io-playground/fadecandy-led-controller/issues/2)), so you can track the process there as well. ---
**Author:** ![edgeedj1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@edgeedj1982](https://forums.balena.io/u/edgeedj1982)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 5:21pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/15 "2019-10-22T17:21:08Z")
Thanks, hopefully they will fix it soon. I don’t have anyone to teach me this stuff and I have to teach myself. Thanks again ---
**Author:** ![edgeedj1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@edgeedj1982](https://forums.balena.io/u/edgeedj1982)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 2:24am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/16 "2019-10-26T02:24:14Z")
just tested something, it all seems to work fine with [balenaOS 2.27.0+rev1]. All the services work and stay running. if you use a updated balenaOS then the services keep restarting ---
**Author:** ![edgeedj1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@edgeedj1982](https://forums.balena.io/u/edgeedj1982)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/17 "2019-10-26T03:18:22Z")
new problem, i got it up and running but when i use the VNC and connect to my device all i get is a black screen. any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![karaxuna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@karaxuna](https://forums.balena.io/u/karaxuna)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/19 "2019-10-28T13:50:42Z")
Hi, passed your message to project author. Will get back to you as soon as we have news. ---
**Author:** ![edgeedj1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@edgeedj1982](https://forums.balena.io/u/edgeedj1982)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/21 "2019-10-28T14:08:45Z")
Awesome thanks ---
**Author:** ![chrisys](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/chrisys/32/1731_2.png) [@chrisys](https://forums.balena.io/u/chrisys)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/24 "2019-10-30T17:08:57Z")
@edgeedj1982 if you’re just getting a black screen it sounds like the glediator application isn’t starting, although the VNC part of that container is working fine. Is there anything in the logs relating to this? I know you have to download and copy that binary into the project manually so perhaps some kind of execution permissions. Feel free to enable support access for the device and share the link here too. ---
**Author:** ![edgeedj1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@edgeedj1982](https://forums.balena.io/u/edgeedj1982)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/25 "2019-10-30T17:28:06Z")
Ok as soon as I get home today I will look at it ---
**Author:** ![edgeedj1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@edgeedj1982](https://forums.balena.io/u/edgeedj1982)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:11am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/27 "2019-10-31T03:11:02Z")
ok i enabled support access to my device for 1 day, but i dont know how to post a link to it for you to look up. The UUID is c09a2def743b2b83e704ba4bad5be09b Current Release 37fe4113977f596a96d2b92cd9b6b127 Target Release 37fe4113977f596a96d2b92cd9b6b127 HOST OS VERSION [balenaOS 2.27.0+rev1] SUPERVISOR VERSION [8.3.5] ---
**Author:** ![roman-mazur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/roman-mazur/32/2194_2.png) [@roman-mazur](https://forums.balena.io/u/roman-mazur)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/37 "2019-10-31T12:29:42Z")
Hey @edgeedj1982, I checked your glediator container on the device, and it does not have the jar required to run the app. If you ssh to glediator container, ```auto root@2a86b486e500:/usr/src/app# ls -la total 724 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 26 02:17 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 26 02:17 .. -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 379 Oct 25 01:14 Dockerfile -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 673226 Oct 25 01:14 autoSave.gled -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1548 Oct 25 01:14 gled_patch_generator.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31843 Oct 25 01:14 patch.gled drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 25 01:14 supervisor -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4657 Oct 31 03:03 supervisord.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Oct 31 03:03 supervisord.pid ``` As you can see, `Glediator_V2.jar` file is not here. You need to download it separately and put it into the glediator folder before executing `balena push`, as it’s described in the project README. Hope this helps. Let us know how it’s going. ---
**Author:** ![roman-mazur](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/roman-mazur/32/2194_2.png) [@roman-mazur](https://forums.balena.io/u/roman-mazur)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/38 "2019-10-31T12:31:43Z")
I realized the link we use in the readme does not work anymore. Will check with the team if we can properly update it. ---
**Author:** ![edgeedj1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@edgeedj1982](https://forums.balena.io/u/edgeedj1982)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/39 "2019-10-31T12:32:17Z")
Hey thanks, I totally downloaded it ( took a few days to find due to the site being down) and thought I copied it to the right place. I will look at it when I get home tonight thanks. ---
**Author:** ![chrisys](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/chrisys/32/1731_2.png) [@chrisys](https://forums.balena.io/u/chrisys)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078/41 "2019-10-31T14:35:32Z")
@edgeedj1982 do you mind sharing where you found the Glediator download - it would definitely help other users! [Next page](https://forums.balena.io/t/build-festive-lighting-for-the-holidays-with-balena-christmas-lights/38078.md?page=2)