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Our new Project Spotlight features commercial and residential builds with custom floorplans to demonstrate how simple it can be to control multiple TVs and zones from an intuitive and properly designed UI. Our project for this month is located in Nashville, Tennessee and is owned by country music star Morgan Wallen. The building is a 6 level structure with 35 TVs, multiple video walls, and LED walls behind the bar areas and live music stage. This project uses our Spectre / Symphony Commercial control template, and allows for quick and easy viewing of all video displays with source controls / presets on a single page. The audio zones can all be viewed and access from a single page as well. This allows the staff to quickly set up & control every audio zone from a single location. They can choose to have to have audio from the house mixer output, Pandora Business, DirecTV audio, microphone (for announcements), and services such as Rockbot. Our commercial control templates include a splash page which you can use as a central hub to allow simple one touch presets / macros for events such as sporting events, allowing the business to quickly reconfigure on game days. When we deliver a custom floorplan, it is already embedded into the template file with TV locations placed according to the supplied drawings and is delivered in project format. We can also include and set up the free Layer Switch driver (with RTI projects) to manage showing and hiding the various levels, source select menus, and source controls if required. In the lower right screenshot (below), the stage LED wall is selected, but only presets from the LED wall's processor are available to display with predetermined animations and video, so we added a message over the DirecTV sources to show they are unavailable. Simple additions like this will avoid confusion and allow for virtually "training free" control. A simple "close" button for the LED wall controls will reveal the source select menu and last used DirecTV controls. You can also add metadata from DirecTV receivers if there is a driver available for your control system to make it even easier for the end user to know what program is currently playing on each receiver. Our Commercial template has been ported to all major control platforms and is essentially identical with regard to included icons, backgrounds, buttons, and other design elements. You can check out all of the available templates at the following links. Click or touch any image below for a full resolution view.

One of our most popular services is creating custom floor plan graphics for use on home automation touch panels. We take the original PDF file and render an all new vector image of the entire plan, including interior / exterior walls, doorways, patios, terraces, fountains. pools, and everything else.

After that, we create a 2 state button that fits perfectly in each zone that needs to be selectable from the plan for AV, climate, lighting, or anything else. These custom shaped zone buttons can be pressed to select the zone, but can also be "lit up" with feedback to show the zone is currently active.

We do not simply send you a folder full of graphics and let you build the plan yourself. Instead, we deliver a full project file like you see in the first image below. The background of the floor plan can be used for other purposes, such as showing window and door status when tied into a security system.

We also supply you with a folder full of 2 state camera buttons facing 16 different directions. This will allow you to build a very simple icon based UI for selecting security cameras instead of using rows and rows of text based buttons. You can set the buttons to the active state to show the camera is currently selected. There is no simpler or more elegant way to display and select security cameras.

Loews Hotels - Universal Studios Florida

We created 7 HD (1080 x 1920 vertical) graphics for the Loews on-site hotels at Universal Studios Florida digital signage. These will be part of a larger slideshow we are currently working on. This project may get expanded to all of the shops and restaurants currently in the all the on-site properties and the upcoming Universal Epic Universe theme park and hotels, which is under construction right down the road.

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