Patent ID: 8513905

Claim:
A decorative lighting control method comprising the steps of : a- forming in a central controller a control algorithm having a pseudo-random number generation algorithm (PRNG) which independently varies a plurality of parametric values for the central controller, said plurality of parametric values comprising a color, a color saturation, a color intensity, a fade time, and an address, said address for a module comprising a zone and a group or a zone and a unit; b- creating a color capable lighting system, including the central controller and one or more modules, the modules being light fixtures, wherein each individual light fixture is controlled by a light fixture controller capable of receiving and reading data packets, said data packets comprising parametric values for an address and a color, a color saturation, a color intensity and a fade time parameter; c- selecting a set of allowable colors, color saturations, color intensities, and fade times defining a theme using the central controller; d- selecting a range of addresses to participate in the theme using the central controller; e- using the PRNG to randomly generate a plurality of address sets from within the range selected to participate in the theme; f- using the PRNG to randomly generate a plurality of color parameter sets from among the allowable colors, independently from addresses, that define the them as well as randomly generated color saturations, color intensities, and changing fade times; g- forming a data packet in the central controller containing an address set from the parametric values created in steps e and f, and containing a color contained in a color set, a color saturation, a color intensity, and a fade time, all parameters created in steps e and f; h- broadcasting said data packet to all light fixture controllers in the color capable lighting system; i- modifying the attributes of each light fixture having a light fixture controller with an address that matches the address value in the broadcast data packet, such light fixture attributes being modified to conform to the parametric values contained in the data packet received by the light fixture controller; and j- repeating steps e through i hereof.