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JLTSoft develops innovative software solutions for expanding and controlling the capabilities of home automation hardware. Our flagship product, LightShowMaster, allows you to design an animated light show synchronized to music using existing Insteon hardware products.

Design your very own animated light shows using LightShowMaster and Insteon technology!

August 19, 2008

All new version of Light Show Master coming soon!
We are hard at work on the all new version of Light Show Master 2.0! Here's just a few teasers on what's coming in the new version:

PLM support.
User-adjustable sequence tempo from 16 beats-per-minute all the way up to 480 beats-per-minute.
Improved sequence display.
Support for 20 different fade intervals (versus the 7 intervals currently supported).
Improved and automated link management.

We are shooting for a public beta release sometime in early September, which should give users enough time to put together shows for Halloween! Oh, did I mention that Light Show Master 2.0 will be a FREE upgrade to all current users? ;)

March 27, 2008

We are moving! J-LTFX to be delayed...
Just a quick status update on J-LTFX, our home automation web server for Insteon that we will be releasing later in the year. We are moving to a new house in the near future, and because of all the moving activites, we won't be able to focus on J-LTFX as much over the next month or two. As a matter of fact, we'll have to buy all new Insteon equipment! At this point, I think J-LTFX will be released closer to the end of Q2 2008 or possibly even early Q3 2008.

January 25, 2008

Manual for Light Show Master 1.2 now available!
The complete manual for Light Show Master 1.2 is now finally available! Download it here!

January 24, 2008

Manual for Light Show Master 1.2
The complete manual for the current version of Light Show Master will finally be available in the next 48 hours. The manual includes detailed explanations, screenshots, tips, and tutorials on how to use the software. Most importantly, we do a thorough walkthrough on how to program the links for several devices, which is probably the most complicated piece of the software.

As a reminder, we are coming out with a new version of Light Show Master sometime later in the year (around Q2) that will be PLM-only. This new version will be more powerful and far easier to use, and we'll create a new manual for it that will be released at the same time. The new version will be a free upgrade for all existing users.

January 9, 2008

New version of Light Show Master coming in 2008!
We are working on an all-new version of Light Show Master that will have some pretty significant changes over previous versions. First and foremost, Light Show Master will be entirely ditching support of the PLC in favor of the PLM. With the PLM, we will finally be able to support an amazing 20 commands per second! You will now be able to flash lights on & off at a maximum of 10 times per second (10 on commands + 10 off commands = 20 commands). The PLM requires a lot less resources on the host computer and does not use the inefficient SDM library. As a result, Light Show Master should perform even better on slower, less powerful computers! We are also redesigning the way the channels are configured for Insteon devices. In previous versions, the user had to tediously configure all of the links between the PLC and their Insteon devices, creating a mess of group numbers that the user had to keep track of. Light Show Master is going to improve this process tremendously by managing and programming the links and groups for you. It will also be able to clear out the link databases on your devices so you won't have to go around doing factory resets on all of your Insteon hardware. We'll have more details about the new version of Light Show Master later in the year. Look for a new beta sometime in Q2 2008!

January 2, 2008

Announcing J-LTFX!
We have some big news today. JLTSoft has just formally announced our next software product, J-LTFX. J-LTFX, which will be available Q1 2008, is a dedicated lightweight, software-based home automation web server that you can run on a computer with minimal hardware requirements. It uses a PLM to control and manage your Insteon network. The best part of J-LTFX is that it will be available for the low introductory price of $39.95! See the official announcement on Smarthome's forums here.

October 18, 2007

Light Show Master BETA 1.2.0 RELEASED!
Due to popular demand, we've just released our first BETA version of 1.2.0! Please note that this release has not yet undergone extensive testing. Please kindly report any and all bugs to support@jltsoft.com. Proceed to the downloads section to download and try the new version!

BETA 1.2.0 feature list: 

• Recompiled code under .NET 2.0 Libraries
• Support for Windows Vista added
• Enabled fades for Insteon Group in Channel Properties
• Replaced Windows Media Player code with DirectX 9 code.
• Enhanced fade depiction in sequence display.
• Added enhacement to fade tools that hightlights the cells that will be affected if the user were to click the left mouse button while hovering over a cell in the sequence.
• Fixed bug that caused some tools not to become selected on the first click. This bug sometimes required a second click to activate the tool.
• Selection tool, fill tool, and erase tools now all have an animated dashed-outline for easier identification.
• Changed the first 16 default channel colors from red to a rainbow spectrum.
• Fixed bug where last few seconds of sequence display wouldn't update during playback.
• Added "Tap" feature that allows you to "tap-out" the beat of the music by tapping the space bar while playing the music. A tap-symbol will appear in the selected channel.
• Added keyboard shortcuts for tools: (1=select, 2=draw, 3=fill, 4=fade up, 5=fade down, 6=erase, +=zoom in, -=zoom out)
• Pressing the delete key while an area is selected will delete the selection.
• Right-clicking with the draw tool will now erase cells (turn off)
• Added filters to media selection dialog.

October 11, 2007

Thanks to our users who contacted us to let us know that we weren't getting their emails! Our apologies! We didn't have mail forwarding set up correctly and only just now discovered that some folks were trying to get in touch with us. We also understand that our support forum on AccessHA is going away when AccessHA goes offline permanently on October 12, 2007. We'll have to look for a new place to move our support forum to. In the meantime, please feel free to send us an email if you have support questions. I promise we'll get it this time!

For those of you who have inquired about the status of the next version of Light Show Master, we're tentatively planning to release a beta in about 2 weeks or so. We have run into some technical difficulties with the Insteon protocol that prevents us from implementing certain features the way we wanted.

August 8, 2007

We've just completed the redesign of our company web site and it is now live. We hope you like the changes! With that out of the way, we're now focusing on the new version of LightShowMaster, slated for release late summer/early fall. The new version will make use of DirectX for audio playback instead of Windows Media Player, and is also compiled using the newer .Net 2.0 libraries. Stay tuned for more details!

August 6, 2007

A new version of LightShowMaster is under development! We're working on a new version of our software that will introduce some new features and enhancements. If you would like to suggest enhancements to LightShowMaster, please send us an email at support@jltsoft.com.

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Introducing J-LTFX!
New software-based home automation web server solution coming soon from JLTSoft! Control your Insteon network, manage links, and create timers and events all remotely via any Internet-enabled web browser or device!

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