Description
The CPLLC Pharos Platform brings a Pharos Designer lighting controller (LPC, TPC or VLC) into Crestron Home. The groups, fixtures, scenes, timelines and triggers of the project loaded on the controller become Crestron Home devices: groups and fixtures as colour lights, scenes and timelines as switched lights that start and release them, and triggers as buttons, with a Release All button beside them. The lights join the room’s Lights tile and can be part of Crestron Home lighting scenes. The controller is reached on the local network through its HTTP API; nothing goes through a cloud.
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Windows utility that simplifies sideloading of drivers and extensions.
The platform’s own license key, or a CPLLC site license key, is entered in the platform’s Enter License Key option. The License Manager is not required, but it is the convenient place to enter a site license key once for every CPLLC driver.
All license purchases are final and non-refundable. Every CPLLC driver works fully for two hours without a key: test it on your processor before you buy. See the Terms of Use.
Platform Installer Options
- IP Address / Hostname – The Pharos controller’s IP address or host name on the processor’s network.
- Port – The port of the controller’s web interface: 80 (the default) unless the controller has been given another.
- Username – The controller’s web interface username, when the project requires a login. Leave blank when it doesn’t.
- Password – The password for that username.
Groups and Fixtures
A group or fixture is added as a dimmable colour light under its Designer name. It joins the room’s Lights tile with its switch, level and colour controls, and can be in the room’s lighting scenes. Each change is sent to the controller as an override of intensity, hue and saturation, with Crestron Home’s fade time. The controller doesn’t report an override’s level, so the light shows what Crestron Home last sent. A group or fixture has no installer options of its own and no page; Crestron Home draws its controls.
Scenes and Timelines
A scene or timeline is added as a switched light under its Designer name. Turning it on starts it on the controller; turning it off releases it. It shows on while the controller reports the scene started, or the timeline running, paused or holding at its end. It joins the room’s Lights tile and can be in the room’s lighting scenes. A scene or timeline has no installer options of its own and no page.
Triggers and Release All
A trigger is added as a button under its Designer name, and Release All as a button of its own. A button has no controls; its Button Press action fires the trigger (the controller tests the trigger’s conditions first), or releases every scene, timeline and override for Release All. Its only options are Show on Home Screen and Show in Room Screen.
Triggers and Release All Installer Options
- Show on Home Screen – Shows the button’s tile on the Home screen (default off).
- Show in Room Screen – Shows the button’s tile in its room (default on).
Triggers and Release All Actions
- Button Press – Fires the trigger, or releases everything for Release All, and raises the Button Pressed event.
- Extension Enable / Extension Disable – Enables or disables the button.
Triggers and Release All Events
- Button Pressed – The button was pressed.
- Extension Enabled / Extension Disabled – The button was enabled or disabled.
Sequences
Each group, fixture, scene and timeline brings Crestron Home’s own light actions and events to sequences, under its name in Customize Actions & Events: on and off for all of them, and level and colour for a group or fixture. Each trigger and Release All adds Button Press and Button Pressed.
