Pharos Architectural Controls is delighted to be returning to PLASA Show, presenting their latest developments and meeting customers on stand A58.

Held at Olympia, London between 7th – 9th September, PLASA Show is an exciting exhibition that attracts the best of international entertainment technology.

The Pharos team will be available to meet visitors and introduce a series of key updates to their lighting control product ranges, Pharos Expert and Pharos Designer.

The latest release of Expert now features Groups; a new way to organise fixtures within a space. Expert 2.0 now offers users the ability to control smaller groups within each space with run-time overrides from the Expert Touch mobile app or touchscreen wall stations.

Expert’s programming tools have also been enriched with the ability for users to include static scenes within timeline scenes. In response to customer requests, many dynamic scenes have had their properties extended. For example, a greater variety of speeds and longer loop times providing more subtle playback. Visitors to the Pharos stand will be able to see all of these new features in action with a hands-on demonstration.

The Pharos RIO D4 is now supported in Expert. The team will be demonstrating this DALI four-port device which connects to an Expert system using a single PoE connection. It’s possible to connect up to four RIO D4s to Expert Control, providing up to 16 additional DALI interfaces to a system.

Following the launch of DMX Record at PLASA 2024, recent Designer improvements include DMX Record remapping; an addition which enables recorded universes to be routed to an alternative universe output, including local DMX ports on the controller.

Another significant enhancement has been made to eDMX pass-through. Users can now take eDMX (Art-Net or sACN) from any console and passively route it through the Pharos Designer LPC to another eDMX universe, the controller’s local ports or ports on Pharos DMX gateways (EDN and RIO G4).

Ryan Sainsbury, Regional Sales Manager for UK and Northern Europe at Pharos Architectural Controls said: “PLASA Show is an important exhibition in the Pharos events calendar. Our Expert and Designer ranges offer huge advantages to the entertainment technology sector, and the show is the ideal way for us to communicate with our existing and future clients. We are continually developing the Pharos Expert and Designer ranges, and we’re looking forward to profiling these at PLASA Show and demonstrating the benefits they offer to a wide variety of lighting projects.”

 

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