Raymarine releases LightHouse 3 Dartmouth software update

The version 3.12 update, as it is officially known, introduces a range of new features to Axiom, the new range of Axiom+, Axiom Pro and Axiom XL models, either via a wireless link or by downloading it onto a memory card.

Updating to the latest version of the software will bring a number of big running changes to what Raymarine Axiom users see in front of them.

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One of the biggest changes is the introduction of day and night modes for the display, including an extra-dark setting for extremely low-light applications.

Users will also be able to pull down a sidebar that allows them to control the head unit of comparable NMEA200, ethernet and Bluetooth audio systems. If multiple systems are installed, the user can choose which head unit to control.

Of slightly less relevance to all but the most hardcore users, the new LightHouse 3 Dartmouth software adds a host of apps for specific lighting systems, watermakers, stabilisers and even specialist seats that measure the G-forces being transferred through the body of the person sitting in them.

Users will also gain new-look fonts that make it easier to read a new range of digital gauges, whole keen fishers will be able to set a fish alarm for the first time in an Axiom unit that sounds an audible alert and marks fish on the sounder screen.

Anyone who uses their Axiom system for passage making will be happy to see the system expanded with a chartplotter measuring ruler. Users can set more than one ruler, and the rules remain “sticky”, meaning they will reappear even if the touchscreen is power-cycled.

The software update coincides with the release of the all-new Axiom+ multifunction navigation displays.

Prices for the Axiom+ start from $1399 via Raymarine dealers and retailers.