ETC adds features to Unison Echo systems
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“The latest Echo software expands the functionality of Echo in exciting directions and includes new features that our customers have directly asked for,” said Lowell Olcott, ETC networking and architectural controls product manager.
The upgrade lets users control white-tuning DMX fixtures, choosing the temperature that best suits the space. Echo’s ability to control colour-tuning fixtures has also been expanded, allowing users to mix a chosen temperature of white as well as colours. The EchoAccess mobile application has undergone a graphics upgrade to ensure users can easily customise the look and feel of their system.
DMX functionality has also been expanded. Sequence control gives users the ability to introduce automated, dynamic colour control to their environments by stringing simple presets together. And a new trigger function allows the Echo DMX Scene Controller to interface seamlessly with external DMX sources. With it, users can dictate how the system should behave if a more sophisticated DMX source is plugged in, or what to do if a primary DMX source is lost.
Echo stations and sensors can now control presets in multiple spaces. This allows a single button push to control a number of rooms including the ability to turn off lights in multiple spaces. Echo photo sensors have a new option to prevent the sensor from raising levels in a preset purposefully set to a lower level. This is useful in classrooms with projectors and many other installations.
Echo’s expanded capabilities will be included in every new Echo product. Many existing products can also make use of these new features with a software upgrade.
(Jim Evans)
