Wind Street is a popular location in the heart of Swansea’s city centre. As part of its recent £2m regeneration works, LITE Ltd were hired to deliver a comprehensive new LED lighting scheme that would brighten the area and welcome visitors all year round. LITE has used Pharos controls on all their new remote access, eco-friendly LED lighting designs. At the top of Wind Street sits the Norman
Archives for 2020
New in Designer 2.8 – API Propagation
Custom web interfaces offer end users a useful device-based override control solution. Prior to 2.8.0, triggering web API (JavaScript/HTTP) commands via a custom web interface would only affect the controller on which it was fired. For projects with multiple controllers, which all needed to respond to a web UI command, this necessitated many additional triggers to send commands
New in Designer 2.8 – sACN Sync
sACN Sync is a new feature that aligns with the specification for the sACN protocol. It works in a similar vein to ArtSync or KiNET Sync, although there is a keen difference that will be covered in this introduction to the new feature. But, firstly, why would you need to use sACN Sync? When you are outputting lighting data to your fixtures from a controller via network nodes, there are occasions
Introducing the SDI (Serial Data Interface)
With the cost of LEDs becoming incredibly low over the past few years, new protocols were developed to drive large numbers of LEDs easily; the SDI was designed to convert our current DMX functionality into an ability to speak these new protocols. This is where serial data comes in; by this, we mean two types; Synchronous Serial Data (also known as SPI, or Serial Peripheral Interface) and
New in Designer 2.8 – VLC enhancements
With our continuous development of Designer software, we have upgraded a few of the capabilities of the VLC family Controllers. From 2.8.0, the following changes/additions have been made: White space management; allowing a content target multiplier to scale content on arrays where there is a lot of physical space between pixels Support for 60Hz Improvements to 16-bit support to ensure full
New in Designer 2.8 – API Propagation
Custom web interfaces offer end users a useful device-based override control solution. Prior to 2.8.0, triggering web API (JavaScript/HTTP) commands via a custom web interface would only affect the controller on which it was fired. For projects with multiple controllers, which all needed to respond to a web UI command, this necessitated many additional triggers to send