Features and enhancements introduced in the v2.5 release.
Pharos Director: support for the new Pharos Director software.
Director is the powerful new solution for coordinating and choreographing city-wide or campus installations made up of multiple Pharos systems / controllers. Designer projects are imported into Director where all the LPC pixel matrices and VLC content targets are available for placing on a huge canvas. This creates a panorama of all the installations, onto which video can then be simply applied to the whole ‘location’. An intuitive built-in calendar allows for easy scheduling of events.
- Real-time status updates from all network-connected controllers.
- Import projects to help quickly identify the relevant controllers, with status displayed in an easy-to-read tabular format.
- Build panoramas to map content seamlessly across multiple matrices.
- Individually position and scale pixel matrices and content targets within a virtually unlimited canvas.
- Schedule content to play exactly when you want it.
- Build playlists of video content, timelines and triggers, and schedule using a convenient calendar-based interface with built-in recurrence options.
- Manual overrides put control at your fingertips.
- Configure a simple push-button interface to allow operators to easily override existing schedules.
Read more about Director here, and download here
- All Pharos controllers supported
- Works with any number of controllers
- Supports all common video formats
- Runs on a standard Windows/Mac PC
- Intuitive user interface and workflow.
Trigger re-numbering: Triggers can now easily be renumbered, reflecting their current order if you have moved them up or down in the trigger list. You can select all your triggers or just selected subsets, choose the start number and include or exclude Enqueue Trigger actions.
Hide trigger: Check box option to exclude certain triggers from appearing to clients in the web interface Control tab and Director playlists.
New Output Disabled condition: following the introduction of the Disable Output action in Trigger, this new condition allows that state to be tested and actions set depending on status.
Group re-ordering: New context menu option to sort fixtures in a group based on fixture number or by horizontal and vertical position.
New timeline presets: New Gradient Mesh preset for pixel matrices, and numerous existing presets now available for VLCs.
New Crossfades: New options to select alternate profiles for crossfading intensity and colour within the a preset transition.
DALI Type 8: Further support for latest DALI specs, including Colour Temperature control in addition to existing XY control.
IO Modules: Additional modules available within 2.5, including:
- HTTP Poll
- Log Message
- Xicato
- Yahoo Weather
Online library available to directly download a module into Designer.
VLAN Tagging: Support allowing for protocol data to be VLAN tagged. This separates management and data traffic from the single physical port on LPCs and TPCs.
Reports enhancements:
- Additional property fields have been added to All Layouts, All Timelines and the Equipment reports
- The report window can now stay open whilst continuing to edit in Designer
- Numerous fields are now editable making alterations and adjustments to the data in your project much easier and quicker
