I am not sure if this is possible or not. I think it would be, but I have no idea how to write the code to do it.
- Make one of the "modes" for the LE, an all channel on mode. When you cycle thru the different modes, it could be listed on "ON" and if you hit select, it would turn on all of the channels and they would stay that way. The next mode could be "OFF", that turns all of the channels off. It would be great if it could remember the last setting if it was powered down, sort of like it remembers the starting channel of the board, but not essential.
- Taking that one step further, it would be great if you could turn on or off each channel from the controller.
I have found this year, that several times, I have had to run all on sequences to fix strings of lights, to make sure things look good, or just because i wasn't "permitted" to run the light show before thanksgiving. I had been tossing around the idea of adding a bypass switch to each controller, that would either allow power to go to the LE or directly to the outlets, so i could just flick the switch to change it. But I couldn't figure out an easy, safe, or cheap was to do that, and then I got to thinking, it could easily be added into the brains of the board. I looked briefly at trying to figure that out, but found quickly that is WAYYYYY beyond my knowledge. So I am hoping someone here could help.
Thanks as always,
Jon