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ARC Show Innovation Award for the Touch Panel Controller

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

The award winning Pharos Touch Panel Controller

We’re delighted to announce that the Pharos Touch Panel Controller (TPC) has won an award in the inaugural ARC Show Innovation Awards.

The award winners were announced by ARC Show curator Durham Marenghi this afternoon during the final day of the ARC Show at the Business Design Centre, London. The TPC won a Highly Commended award, which was presented to Pharos by Keith Theobald.

The new TPC received lots of attention on our stand at ARC this year, as people admired the combination of an advanced lighting controller and a touch screen at a competitive price. Thanks to everyone who came to chat to us!

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Pharos TPC makes The ARC Show Innovation Awards shortlist

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Pharos Touch Panel Controller

With a month to go until The ARC Show in London, the finalists have just been announced for the inaugural ARC Innovation Awards.

The judges have recognised fifteen products for consideration, including the Pharos Touch Panel Controller.

If you are planning to visit the show you can register on line. Visitors to the show will be able to vote for their favourite product in the innovation awards.

Hope to see you there – you are most welcome to drop by the Pharos stand, M1!

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Pharos controls Philips’ festive greeting

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

Philips Color Kinetics EMEA used a Pharos LPC 40 to control their 2011 Christmas message at their HQ in Eindhoven, Netherlands, comprising 6000 pixels of Philips Color Kinetics iColor Flex MX. Bas Hoksbergen and Denis Carcagne of Philips worked on the mapping and the content using the Pharos Designer software, making use of the Dynamic Text timeline preset.

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New controllers now shipping!

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

The new Pharos Touch Panel Controller and LPC 4 are now available.

Pharos Touch Panel Controller

The TPC is an advanced, standalone, solid state lighting controller with an integrated 4.3″ capacitive touch screen, 512 channels of eDMX output and vast interfacing potential all over a single PoE network connection.

Pharos LPC 4

The new LPC 4 is in the same form-factor as the LPC 1 and LPC 2. The LPC 4 can output two universes locally using the DMX ports and two more via multiple eDMX protocols. Alternatively, as with the LPC 1 and LPC 2, you can output all data via eDMX protocols.

Designer v1.9 is now released with support for both controllers and lots of new features. There are new releases for Dynamic Media Manager and Installation Manager, as well as the all new Interface Editor. This application allows you to build themed user interfaces for the Touch Panel Controller, creating and organising multiple pages of buttons, sliders, colour pickers and more. All these software installers are free to download.

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Designer public beta available

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

For those who would like a sneak-peek at some new software, Pharos is making a beta version of the forthcoming Designer v1.9 available for download and evaluation. This software will include support for the two new controllers – the Touch Panel Controller and the LPC 4 as well as many new features, including:

  • Flexible eDMX patch for TPC and LPC 1/2/4, just like the LPC X
  • Dual IP addressing for TPC and LPC 1/2/4, separating output protocols from management traffic
  • LPC 1 allows TPC to output local DMX via its second DMX output interface (DMX proxy)
  • sACN output supported by all Lighting Controllers
  • Patch information displayed when hovering over fixture
  • Intensity trigger actions support fade and delay times
  • New Timeline Released trigger
  • New Toggle Timeline action
  • New triggers and actions for TPC
  • New Lua script functions to change timecode sources
  • Enhanced flicker effect
Also available for evaluation is a beta version of the new Interface Editor. This application allows you to build themed user interfaces for the TPC, creating and organising multiple pages of buttons, sliders and colour pickers.

Beta software is for evaluation only – please do not use this software for any active projects without first consulting us. Please ensure you have backed up any project files that you are using with release software as you will not be able to open them in v1.8 after saving them in v1.9 beta. If you discover a bug, please email support with details of your computer, the project files and instructions to help us reproduce the problem.

As always we welcome your feedback and comments, and please get in touch if you have any questions.

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Coming soon! The new LPC 4

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

The range of Pharos lighting controllers continues to grow. Not only are we announcing the new Touch Panel Controller, but we have a new LPC for you too!

Introducing the LPC 4

Pharos LPC 4

Providing more system design flexibility, the LPC 4 is a four universe controller in the same form-factor as the LPC 1 and 2.  It can output two universes locally using the DMX ports and two more via multiple eDMX protocols, including Art-Net, Kinet and sACN.  Alternatively, as with the LPC 1 and LPC 2, the LPC 4 can output all data via eDMX protocols.

Dual IP

We’re going to make it even easier to manage eDMX installations using the TPC and LPC 1 / 2 / 4 range: still using just the single Ethernet connector, we are introducing dual IP addressing to allow lighting control protocols to be routed to a different IP network to the management network.

As always we welcome your feedback and comments, and please get in touch if you have any questions.

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Coming soon! The new Touch Panel Controller

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

We are delighted to announce our exciting new product – the Pharos Touch Panel Controller.

The TPC is an advanced, standalone, solid state lighting controller with an integrated 4.3” customisable touch screen, 512 channels of eDMX output and vast interfacing potential all over a single PoE network connection.

Pharos Touch Panel Controller

Programmed in Pharos Designer, the TPC has the same advanced playback and show control engine as the popular and award winning Pharos Lighting Playback Controllers. Over an Ethernet network it can interface with other Pharos controllers, button panels and remote devices. The companion Interface Editor application allows you to build themed user interface pages, creating and organising multiple pages of buttons, sliders and colour pickers to suit the installation and customer needs.

The elegant wall-mounting design features a magnetic overlay within the sleek, plated bezel to produce a modern, streamlined design; a variety of finishes and overlays will be available. The TPC is a Power over Ethernet (PoE) device and therefore requires just one cable to install. It controls networked eDMX fixtures, integrates with building management systems, serves web apps to mobile devices and allows remote management over the Internet. Built-in environmental sensors can be used for daylight harvesting, occupancy sensing and temperature monitoring.

Full details including datasheet and sales spec can be found on the new TPC product page.

As always we welcome your feedback and comments, and please get in touch if you have any questions.

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DALI over Ethernet with the new RIO D

Friday, June 24th, 2011

Pharos introduces the latest RIO, providing distributed DALI control over an Ethernet network.

We are pleased to announce the new RIO D, our latest Ethernet-based Remote Device, delivering the DALI protocol to where it is needed. Pharos LPCs can send DALI ballast configuration and control signals via multiple RIO Ds, each connected to a local DALI bus with up to 64 ballasts. RIO Ds acting in Slave mode listen to all commands on the local DALI bus and transmit them back over Ethernet to the lighting controller to be used as triggers for the Pharos system.

Pharos RIO D

  • Power over Ethernet (PoE) device allows DALI inputs and outputs to be placed at any location on an Ethernet network
  • Compatible with all Pharos lighting controllers
  • Drag and drop DALI patch and timeline programming in Designer software
  • DALI Master and Slave modes configured in software
  • DALI connection via installation-friendly 3-pin connector
  • Augment an existing DALI installation with LED and automated lights

Other products in our Remote Device range are the BPS, RIO 80/44/08 and the new RIO A.

With the convenience of single-cable installation using PoE and the distributed control system design that Ethernet allows, the Pharos RIO D is a ground-breaking new solution for DALI installations.

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Pharos makes a guest appearance at Lightfair 2011

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Pharos control system on display

Lightfair 2011 opens today in Philadelphia and Pharos has been invited by Philips Color Kinetics to provide a booth-wide integrated control system to knit together all of their lighting and video.  Booth staff can easily operate each lighting product display and trigger global events from smartphones or dedicated iPads located around the booth using Pharos iPhone and iPad web apps served by the controllers.

Also on display in the booth are two Pharos AVCs driving 42″ video screens that have dynamically changing content in response to a Pharos BPS user interface.

The Philips theme this year is “See what LED Lighting can do” and to show this off they have invited RGB Lights of Chicago to deck out the booth ceiling with over 20,000 nodes of their FlexiFlex product.  Be sure to stop by on the hour and half past the hour for a visual treat as the whole booth comes to life.

Pharos AVC and BPS on display

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Introducing Pharos Dynamic Media Manager

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Dynamic Media Manager v1.0 is now available

Joining the Pharos Installation Manager as part of our suite of utility applications, Dynamic Media Manager allows users to create and visualize new pixel matrix lighting effects for their installations without needing to modify the original Designer project structure.

Dynamic Media Manager

Installations often require frequent changes to content for marketing campaigns and corporate colour schemes. Dynamic Media Manager is a one-window intuitive application that is simple to learn for marketing and graphics personnel who may not be familiar with Pharos Designer. Equally, users of Pharos Designer will appreciate the commonality in the lighting effect programming tools.

During commissioning, the Pharos Designer project is programmed with media slots on the timelines. These act as placeholders for media and effects that will be created and repeatedly edited later using Dynamic Media Manager. These media slots can then be freely changed without any impact on the triggering framework and underlying programming of the main Designer project.

Experienced Pharos programmers will find Dynamic Media Manager streamlines the creation of Designer projects that include large quantities of media and 2D matrix presets. With only placeholders for media in the Designer project, edits and uploads are significantly faster, allowing the programmer to concentrate on the show control separately from the media content.

Pharos Installation Manager then easily associates and uploads the new media files with the appropriate Controller for remote upload at any convenient, scheduled time.

Life made easier by Pharos!

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