🏮 Lantern

Hand-held candle lantern: seven LEDs behind the glass, a rechargeable 18650 cell, and a 433 MHz radio listening for your remotes. The main fleet — twenty identical units.

See it working

A lantern running its candle scene from a remote press.

A finished lantern hanging by its wire handle: printed housing with open windows and the candle unit on its base plate — The prop itself — the candle unit sits on the base plate, electronics hidden underneath.

Power

Each lantern runs from one 18650 cell on a charger board — charge via the board's USB socket (red = charging, green = full).
On power-up the lantern shows a brief warm-candle flash — that's the "I'm alive" cue — then goes dark until a scene fires. Set On boot (under the scene cards) to a scene and it lights straight into that one instead — handy for a preset that has to be on from the moment the cell goes in.
There's no soft power switch: off between shows means the physical switch, or pulling the cell.

WiFi is the biggest battery drain. Show mode (WiFi off on first remote press — see the main guide) is what makes a lantern last a whole performance.

Pairing remote buttons

Lanterns work with ordinary 433 MHz hobby remotes. Any button can drive any scene, and several remotes can drive the same lantern. The full capture walkthrough is in Using the props; in short: open a scene card, press Capture, press the remote button, choose what the scene does, Save to prop.

An open scene card named White: the captured binary remote code, a paste-a-code field, colour and effect dropdowns, and Capture and Test buttons — An open scene card: its captured remote code, the colour and effect it fires, and the Capture / Test buttons.

The Last RF code bar at the top of the page shows every code the lantern hears, which is handy for checking a remote's battery or identifying an unknown button.

Scenes on a lantern

Lights setting	What you get
Any palette colour	steady, or any effect — `candle` and `fire` are the lantern's natural looks; `chase` and `wave` run round the six outer pixels with the centre held at the background level; `pulse`, `twinkle`, `strobe` and `lightning` as described in Colours, effects and the sliders
Off	lantern dark (with an optional fade to black)
no change	this button leaves the lights exactly as they are (useful in mixed-prop groups)

A typical show setup is two buttons: one scene with the warm Candle colour + candle effect and a short fade, one Off scene. Brightness per scene lets a "background" candle sit at 30% and a "featured" one at full from different buttons.

Worth knowing

Twenty lanterns, one setup. Configure one lantern, then use its Fleet page to push the config to the rest. Use groups (e.g. lantern-silver / lantern-black) if different sets need different looks — and note that on a desk each group then becomes its own fixture (see Desk setup).
Heavy effects and the radio. While a lantern is rendering candle or fire it is busy, and a press to switch away from that scene occasionally needs a second press. Held buttons still fire only once.
Interference is normal — see capture. If a scene fires by itself, recapture it from a different button.