Pharos Controls

Dynamic Lighting Control for Iconic Installations

Designer Features

Pharos Designer provides you with the versatility, flexibility and power you need to install dynamic architectural lighting control solutions across a wide range of projects, from modest interiors to international landmarks and historic architecture; from airports, stadiums and bridges to complex theme parks and even the façade lighting of a whole city.

Below are just some of the key features that make Designer the control solution of choice for so many lighting professionals.

Intelligent Programming

  • TIMELINES
  • SCENES
  • GROUPING
  • LAYERING
  • HUMAN CENTRIC
  • VARIABLE PLAYBACK
  • MANUAL OVERRIDES

Our intelligent Designer Engine within our Lighting Playback Controller (LPC) family of products gives you complete control of your lighting installation. Based on timelines and scenes, Designer Engine lets you build dynamic, precise, fully customisable, human centric, pre-programmed lighting displays, all while giving you the freedom of real-time manual overrides.

Extensive Fixture Support

  • MULTI-CHANNEL CONTROL
  • 20,000+ FIXTURES
  • ONLINE LIBRARY
  • DMX
  • DALI
  • LEDS
  • DIMMERS
  • FOUNTAINS

Our fixture library has all the luminaires you could possibly need, with over 20,000 ready to download directly into our Designer 2 software. Includes a huge range of fixture types and modes, with more available on request. Use any number of fixture types together, including DALI alongside DMX.

Powerful Pixel Mapping

  • TWO DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS
  • PER-PIXEL MAPPING
  • VIDEO PLAYBACK
  • 2D EFFECTS
  • MULTI MAPPING SUPPORT

Fine tune down to the pixel with Designer Mapping. Use a group of lighting fixtures as an array of pixels to display media clips or stunning built-in 2D effects. Maps can be quickly auto-generated from fixture layouts, or manually modify pixel positions for ultimate control over the result.

Sophisticated Triggering

  • REAL-TIME EVENTS
  • CONDITIONAL LOGIC
  • VARIABLES
  • SCRIPTING
  • IO MODULES

Timing is everything. Pharos Designer lighting control systems respond to a wide range of stimuli, from real-time events to serial messages, enabling the creation of human-centric or circadian rhythm-based lighting effects. Designer Trigger is a rules engine that uses a powerful conditional logic principle, to create exactly the behaviour you want, when you want it.

Remote Management

  • CLOUD
  • WEB INTERFACE
  • MOBILE
  • WEB APPS
  • SCHEDULING
  • MEDIA MANAGEMENT
  • LOGGING

Manage your lighting installation remotely 24/7, from any device and any location, with comprehensive security and access management. A range of tools give you the remote access you need when and where you need it, with extensive customisation options to further tailor your management interface to be as simple or as sophisticated as you please.

Easy Integration

  • IO MODULES
  • APIS
  • SCRIPTING
  • SERIAL
  • ETHERNET
  • DMX
  • IO
  • MIDI
  • DALI
  • INFRARED
  • TIMECODE
  • AUDIO

Pharos Designer controllers can react to, control or interact with other systems. Use a variety of protocols and commands to easily adapt and integrate your lighting, sound, vision, and effects. Build your own integrations with our comprehensive APIs or choose from our growing library of ready-made IO modules.

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Endless Scalability

  • FLEXIBLE CHANNEL COUNTS
  • ADDITIONAL PORTS
  • REMOTE DEVICES
  • TOUCH STATIONS
  • IO MODULES

The right equipment for every lighting installation, with impressive scalability. Whether it’s one controller or many, it’s all easily programmed via our Designer 2 software. Multiple Pharos Designer products can be connected via Ethernet to increase the channels controlled, the number of communication ports in your project or to achieve a distributed control solution.

Intuitive Software

  • INTUITIVE
  • EASY TO USE
  • POWERFUL
  • FREE TO DOWNLOAD
  • MAC AND WINDOWS
  • TRAINING
  • TUTORIALS

Designer programming software is straightforward to use and is free – including all future updates. You don’t need a dongle, a specialised toolkit or a coding degree. We offer great flexibility with this software solution, perfectly complementing the whole Designer range of hardware. Simple for beginners, but powerful for experienced users, Pharos software gives you the tools you need for your project.

Extreme Reliability

  • RELIABLE
  • 5 YEAR WARRANTY
  • EMBEDDED HARDWARE
  • SELF – SUFFICIENT
  • MANUFACTURED IN THE UK
  • CE, AND ETL

All our controllers are engineered and manufactured in the UK, designed with 24/7 stability and reliability in mind. We are completely confident in our products, and to back this up we offer a 5-year warranty. Our hardware is fully CE and UKCA compliant, and either ETL or UL listed. Once programmed our control system is self-sufficient, so no PC needs to be left on site.

Did you know?

Pharos Designer systems provide dynamic lighting control solutions for everything from a simple indoor lighting installation to the façade lighting of a whole city, including both coloured and white lighting.