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. 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.

New keyboard modifiers and shortcuts: Various enhancements and additions:

• Output Viewer is now available via the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T / Cmd+T
• Simulation has always used the spacebar for Play/Pause, and to complement that we have now allowed the escape key to be use as a Stop/Reset shortcut
• Holding Alt whilst moving items in Layout and Interface will lock the mouse drag to one axis

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

New IO Modules: Additional plugs-ins available in 2.5, including:

• HTTP Poll
• Log Message
• Xicato
• Yahoo Weather

Online IO module library: A new online repository for IO Modules has been added, allowing you to download new modules directly within Designer. This can be accessed from the Download option within the Modules panel.

DALI Type 8: Further support for latest DALI specs, including Colour Temperature control.

Group re-ordering: New context menu option to sort fixtures in a group based on fixture number or by horizontal and vertical position

Matrix tooltip enhancements: Extended tooltip when hovering over a populated pixel will display its XY coordinates within the matrix and any rotation angle in degrees.

New timeline presets: Gradient Mesh preset for pixel matrices

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

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

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

Hide trigger: Check box option to exclude certain triggers from appearing to clients in the web interface Control tab and Director playlists

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.