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TPS

TPS

The Pharos Designer TPS (Touch Panel Station) is an elegant interface with a customisable, 4.3” capacitive touch screen that works with any Pharos Designer Controller.

Technical Details

Customised controls

With control of playback selection and lighting levels at your fingertips, you can gracefully transition between scenes, timelines, effects and pixel-mapped media. The customisable touch screen user interface lets you create multiple pages of lighting controls, configure their appearance and get immediate visual feedback.

Pharos Designer Remote Devices can be used with the full range of Pharos Designer Controllers, providing additional functionality

The TPS works in a similar way to the Pharos Designer TPC without a channel capacity, providing a user interface at a lower price point

Interface controls can be altered during live operation through the Designer Trigger functionality

Fully customisable interface, created in the free Pharos Designer 2 software

Features

Touch Interface

A 4.3″ vivid colour capacitive touchscreen makes navigating your project’s controls appealing and intuitive. It’s quick and easy to activate presets, manual overrides, or even use a custom colour picker to personalise your lighting. The TPS puts control of your Designer system at your fingertips.

Customisable

Touchscreen user interface is fully customisable using the free Pharos Designer 2 software. Create multiple pages of lighting controls including buttons, sliders, keypads and colour pickers, and configure their appearance and visual feedback. Make it eye-catching by importing your own graphics or picking from one of our attractive themes.

Designer Trigger

Designer Trigger is a rules engine that uses conditional logic and a broad range of interfaces and protocols so you can control your lighting with responsive, reactive programming. Send and receive any command, to and from any system. Conditional logic is supported, along with a powerful built-in scripting language for unlimited flexibility. Read more

Flexible

Be limited by your design brief, not your interface. Whether you want to show a few simple buttons, or use custom branded graphics, the touch panel supports it all. It is also capable of supporting any font, including those with extended character sets; e.g. Chinese, Korean, Japanese.


Learning IR

The TPS may be taught to recognise up to 16 different IR codes from a standard infra-red remote control. When one of these keys on the remote control is pressed, the TPS will treat that as a press on its own screen.


Scalable

Multiple Touch Devices can be combined with one or more Pharos controllers on the same network to build the ideal system for your installation, with a maximum of 40 Designer Controllers and Touch Devices in total. Each Touch Device is easily programmed using our Designer 2 software. Read more


Network

Works with any Pharos Designer Controller, and links to it using standard protocols over an Ethernet network.


The TPS is available in a range of different coloured bezels and overlays

Installation

Install is easy and convenient with just a single Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) network connection.

Power over Ethernet

Easily placed at any remote location and only needs a single Cat 5 cable that provides both power and data.

Interface

Provides a custom user interface to any Pharos Designer control system.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION & DOWNLOADS

TPS Datasheet

Click on the link below to download the datasheet.

Download

Download Software

Download the latest version of our Designer software.

Download

Comparison Chart

See and compare features and specs of all our products.

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Capabilities

Orientation

Portrait or landscape

Layouts

Free editable layouts

Pages

Any number of pages, although performance may be affected by complexity and number

Navigation

Convenient and custom navigation via configurable navigation bars

Fonts

Custom font support, including fonts with extended character sets e.g. Chinese, Korean, Japanese

Themes

Wide selection of themes available to download, or create your own with Designer’s theme editor

Controls

A wide array of customisable buttons, sliders, colour pickers, labels, keypads and clocks

Flexible integration

Fully integrated with Pharos Trigger, so button states, graphics, and captions can change according to any number of preset triggers

Infra-red

Learning IR allows any standard remote control to be used to activate button presses/state changes

Secure access

Keypad for PIN-code entry; multiple user levels

Commissioning

Commissioned with Pharos Designer 2

Specifications

Certifications

CE compliant, UKCA compliant, ETL/cETL listed

Power

PoE (IEEE802.3af, Class 2) 4W typical

Required

Any Pharos Designer Controller

Data Storage

Removable SD Card (supplied)

Temperature

0°C to 50°C (32°F to 122°F)

Humidity

10-50% relative, non-condensing

Ingress

IP40

Physical

Wall mounted, partly recessed in UK 2-gang 35mm or custom US 2.5” backbox (supplied separately)

Shipping

20 x 15 x 12 cm (8″ x 6″ x 5″)
0.6 kg (1.3 lbs)

Recovery

Hardware watchdog and recessed reset button

Warranty

5 years

Interfaces

Ethernet

RJ45 socket for 10/100Base-TX Ethernet with Link/Data LEDs; Static IP or DHCP

Touchscreen

4.3” capacitive touch; 480×272 24bpp; 340 cd/m2; magnetic overlay

IR Sensor

Learning IR sensor for remote control

Temperature

Built-in ambient temperature sensor

Order Code & Variants

TPS BB

Designer Touch Panel Station Black-­on-­Black (Touch Device)

TPS CC

Designer Touch Panel Station Cream-­on-­Cream (Touch Device)

TPS WW

Designer Touch Panel Station White-­on-­White (Touch Device)

If no colour is specified, TPS BB will be shipped by default

Pharos Designer Controller required

Downloads:

TPS Datasheet

TPS Specifications

TPS Backbox Dimensions

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