ATON THUNDER TWO & THUNDER FOUR Revolutionary APP Control + Wireless DMX Upgrade

In the pre-dawn hours of September 19, 2025, ATON Lighting Labs quietly flipped a switch that instantly re-defined what “smart fixture” means. The simultaneous firmware-and-app drop for THUNDER TWO and THUNDER FOUR unleashes full smartphone command and latency-free wireless DMX—no extra gateway, no compromise, no kidding.

1. Native APP Control – iOS / Android / iPadOS / HarmonyOS NEXT, all in one binary.
2. 0 ms Wireless DMX – 5 GHz ultra-wideband + ATON Skynode™ mesh, <1 ms end-to-end.
3. Dual-Engine Firmware – THUNDER TWO gets 128-bit PWM, THUNDER FOUR debuts 16-bit RGBW+L 5-in-1 mixing.
4. One-Click Photometrics – real-time lumen, CRI, TM-30, and beam-distance calculator inside the APP.
5. Cloud Sync + Offline Cache – shows go on even when the venue’s Wi-Fi dies.

The new ATON THUNDER Central™ APP is built on Flutter 3.5, delivering 120 fps UI even on a six-year-old iPad. The home screen is a 3 D venue map that auto-recognizes every THUNDER fixture via BLE-Uplink; drag a finger to re-patch channels, twist two fingers to rotate virtual shutters. A haptic engine gives micro-feedback for each DMX value change—users literally “feel” 16-bit fades.

ATON Skynode™ is not vanilla CRMX nor W-DMX. It’s a custom 5 GHz protocol with 4×4 MIMO and adaptive frequency-hopping at 1 600 Hz—think of it as “DMX-over-Wi-Fi 7 but bullet-proof.” The system carries two redundant data streams: one deterministic for dimmer values, one best-effort for FX macros. Latency stays below 1 ms from phone pixel to diode photon, verified by an independent third-party lab (report QR-code inside the APP).

Every fixture ships with an ECC-384 certificate burned at the factory. The APP pairs via NFC “bump” and rotates ECDH keys every 15 minutes—no more “rogue controller” horror stories.

THUNDER TWO’s new 128-bit PWM engine slashes standby draw to 0.3 W—50 % lower than the previous already-frugal generation. THUNDER FOUR adds a smart “sleep-pixel” mode: individual LEDs shut down when set to true black, cutting thermal load by 18 % for long installations.

The Latvian National Opera swapped 120 legacy tungsten cyc strips for THUNDER TWO units. Crew patched the entire rig in 11 minutes using only the APP—no DMX cable, no ladder, no coffee break.

Early-Adopter Quotes

The haptic feedback feels like I’m mixing on a $ 50 K console, except it’s in my pocket.”
—Lina K., FOH engineer, Berlin

The days of running DMX cables at 2 a.m. are officially over. With THUNDER TWO & FOUR’s twin breakthroughs, ATON hasn’t just upgraded two fixtures—it has upgraded an entire industry’s mindset. Welcome to the truly wireless, genuinely smart, irresistibly tactile future of light.