Performance & Usability Enhancements

We’re excited to announce the launch of Halo Firmware v2.2, featuring important performance and usability enhancements to improve experiences with the Halo system.

This latest update includes:

• Performance Enhancements: Numerous fixes have been made to ensure a smoother and more responsive interaction.
• General Maintenance: Ongoing refinements keep your experience intuitive and enjoyable.
• Better Connectivity: Resolved several issues with Wi-Fi and remote pairing for a more stable connection. 
• Improved System Stability: Enhanced stability during power cycles and wake-from-sleep scenarios. 
• Upgraded Touch Remote and App Interface: Enhanced the behavior and responsiveness of the touch remote and app interface.
• Multilingual Support Fixes: Addressed translation issues for a consistent user interface.
• Optimized Playback and Session Controls: Addressed bugs impacting session controls, playback queues, and visual feedback.
• Enhanced Driver Behavior: Improved sleep/wake logic and custom programming support.

Wake/Sleep Timer Added to Halo

The latest firmware auto-updates deliver new features, experiences, and bug fixes to the Halo remotes. Enable the Wake/Sleep Timer so homeowners can personalize their morning and evening routines with custom playlists, lighting, and blinds. Sliders for Shades Experience enables simple, handheld adjustment to shade placement, and “Lock to Room” functionality “locks” Halo to an individual room using Composer Pro.

• Wake/Sleep Timer
• Sliders for Shades Experience 
• "Lock to Room" functionality 
• Bug Fixes

Get Ready for an Enhanced Halo Experience

Key Features and Benefits:

• Styling Improvements: A refreshed look with new icon sets, color schemes, and list views that elevate the overall visual appeal.
• Optimized Navigation: Smaller artwork icons and simplified navigation make the Listen experience faster, allowing for quick and efficient actions within sessions.
• Halo Touch: Toggling between list navigation and favorites has never been simpler. We’ve also relocated the back arrow for improved accessibility.
• Expanded Security Options: A second drop of security devices, featuring an even broader range of motorized devices and sensors.
• Speed and Usability Enhancements: The redesigned user interface promotes faster scrolling, smoother transitions between screens, and quicker execution of commands.

Introducing the First Security Experience to Halo and Halo Touch

We are excited to announce the initial release of our security features for Halo and Halo Touch. With this update, the "Locks and Sensors" sub-menu in the Security section is now fully accessible. This interface lets your customers view and manage locks, relay devices, and sensors. Stay tuned for future updates as we expand the functionality of the Security menu.

Customers can enjoy features like:

• Faster Wake Time from Deep Sleep: We have improved the wake time for the Halo remote, reducing the time it takes to come out of deep sleep, which means quicker access to controls and a more responsive experience.
• Performance Enhancements: We have implemented numerous bug fixes and performance optimizations to ensure a smoother, more seamless experience, as well as improved reliability.

Introducing the Shades Experience for the Halo & Halo Touch

Take full control – and advantage – of natural lighting in any project with the latest auto-update to Halo Firmware v1.8. The Shades Experience allows you bask in the sunshine when appropriate and easily block harsh glare and thermal heat when needed. Easily control a single shade or the entire project, it's all now possible with the Shades Experience

New Shades Experience features for your Halo and Halo Touch include:

• Control of Shade Groups
• Status
• Current Position
• Louver Tilting Depending on Window Treatment Type

5 Great New Features for the Halo & Halo Touch Remote

Halo Firmware 1.7 delivers powerful new features to enhance your customer’s experience and ensure their remote is always connected for their enjoyment, including:

• Custom Buttons on Halo and Halo Touch unlock the power of Control4 scenes. The push of a button easily adjusts all the Lighting, Audio, Video, Shades, and Thermostats on a project to the precise setting needed for whatever activity. The four menus of up to six buttons each can be accessed by the Custom Buttons option now available in the Room View main menu.
• The What’s New Page feature on Halo and Halo Touch will update with each firmware launch to display a bullet point list of newly added features (and fixes if necessary). A blue dot notification on the UI will disappear after new features are read about in the settings menu.
• The Updated Lighting Experience enhances navigation and control by adding individual load control inside of the list view page without the need to dive into the next page. This means easier dimming and fan speed control on the fly.
• We've made big Battery Life Improvements that will now allow your Halo to last roughly 2x longer off the dock.
• Wi-Fi Stability is enhanced through brand new Wi-Fi architecture aimed at improving usability and reliability.
  • Improved WiFi capability features
  • Brand new WiFi chip SDK, with patches aimed at addressing connectivity issues seen in the field
  • Reduced dropouts
  • Faster, improved reconnects
  • Improved user experience when waking from deep sleep to prevent lagging commands

Halo Firmware v1.6

Halo Firmware 1.6 doesn’t just update your Halo or Halo Touch remote, it also makes it dynamic! Interact with the main Control4® Experiences – Watch, Listen, Lighting, and Comfort – and see whether the TV in your bedroom is on or off, if the stereo in the family room is still playing, and even if you left the lights on while you’re out to dinner. You can even turn up the thermostat on the drive back, so you’ll be greeted by a warm and cozy home.

HALO FIRMWARE V1.5

The automatic update to firmware v1.5 was released on July 26 for Halo Touch and Halo Remote.

Aside from enabling Halo Touch, this firmware update includes Find My Remote functionality, split Screen Brightness and Keypad Brightness settings, and new programming options for the Halo Remote driver allowing the Custom Buttons and their Digital Labels to change based on any event.

HALO FIRMWARE V1.4
IS NOW AVAILABLE!

Experience a new level of comfort with the auto-update to Halo Firmware v1.4. The Comfort Page, along with its Experience Buttons, have been introduced to the Halo UI bringing hand-held controls for thermostats, fireplaces, ceiling fans, sprinklers and more.

HALO FIRMWARE V1.3

Halo Firmware v1.3, released on May 4th, improves Wi-Fi connectivity, reliability, room switching stability, addresses deep sleep issues, and reduces the likelihood of Network Errors.

For a full list of all the enhancements, features and fixes included in this firmware update, check out the Halo Release Notes.