I finally was able to find my landscape transformer that I had taken out of service after one of my dogs decided that landscape lights tasted good.
Now I had no excuses for not finishing my Aether. Got everything hooked up and the PIC programmed. Plugged in the transformer and after a few seconds, POW *blink* *blink* *blink* wow that white flash was bright!
It took me 2 tries to get the address to "take". Tested with xlights and everything checks out.
With it off to the side of my vision, I still see spots!