Jon Hole

Zero 88 are delighted to announce the latest addition to their award-winning control range. ‘ZerOS Wing SD’ expands the upgrade options available to all users of ZerOS Consoles. Featuring quick setup, scratch-resistant construction and quiet, fanless operation, ‘ZerOS Wing SD’ plugs into any ZerOS Console to enforce social distancing between operators. “COVID required us to think outside the box” explains Jon Hole (Global Product Manager, Systems and Control). “It turns out the solution was a box. A 2m wide box.” ‘ZerOS Wing SD’ is specifically designed to sit next to FLX consol

Dear All, Zero 88 are pleased to announce the launch of ZerOS 7.9.9 - a new software release for the following consoles: FLX FLX S24 & FLX S48 ZerOS Server Solution & Solution XL ORB & ORB XF SCD Server & SCD Server Pro Leapfrog 48 & 96 ZerOS 7.9.9, Phantom ZerOS 7.9.9 (offline editor) and the Release Notes can be found at zero88.com/zeros If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@zero88.com Best regards, Jon

Hi Mbmbmb31, Usually when updating the library we only add fixtures, never remove them. However, for ZerOS 7.9.8, this isn't an updated library, this is an all-new library. It contains very-close to twice the number of fixtures - but unfortunately that doesn't guarantee it contains ALL the fixtures of our previous library. Remember, if you load an old showfile into ZerOS, this also loads the old fixture personality too - so you shouldn't have any issues continuing to use those fixtures - just convert the ones you can, and leave the ones you can't. If you haven't got a showfile, to tr

What have you patched them as on FLX? If they are patched as dimmers, they'll be affected by the Grand Master, but if you patch them as Relays, they shouldn't be.

Joe - just to expand on this, the old Zero 88 library was using a 'forced' "Lamp off" option that the Mac 250 offers to bypass the disabled option (as detailed at the top of page 36 on the MAC 250 Krypton/Entour user manual). We now operate as the fixture manufacture, Martin, intended - not unnecessarily forcing the Lamp off command.

Out of interest, why did you choose this method of upgrading?

ZerOS 7.9.7.28 has now been superseded by ZerOS 7.9.8 (Public Release) ZerOS Monitor (Windows) 1.9.2 has now been superseded by ZerOS Monitor (Windows) 2.0.0 (Public Release) Dear All, We have released ZerOS 7.9.7.28 (Release Candidate) for all Zero 88 lighting consoles (except FROG2) and servers running the ZerOS Operating System. This will be called "ZerOS 7.9.8" once released. This is a pre-release build of ZerOS. It is not recommend for use on live shows. When loading showfiles from previous versions of ZerOS, fixtures are highlighted in red within the Fixture Schedu

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ZerOS 7.9.7.24 has now been superseded by ZerOS 7.9.7.28 (Release Candidate) Dear All, We have released ZerOS 7.9.7.24 (Public Beta Release) for all Zero 88 lighting consoles (except FROG2) and servers running the ZerOS Operating System. This will be called "ZerOS 7.9.8" once released. This is a pre-release build of ZerOS. It is not recommend for use on live shows. When loading showfiles from previous versions of ZerOS, fixtures are highlighted in red within the Fixture Schedule. These are now “legacy” fixture personalities. The Fixture Schedule provides the ability to con

ZerOS 7.9.7.21 has now been superseded by ZerOS 7.9.7.24 (Public Beta Release) Dear All, We have released ZerOS 7.9.7.21 (Public Beta Release) for all Zero 88 lighting consoles (except FROG2) and servers running the ZerOS Operating System. This will be called "ZerOS 7.9.8" once released. This is a pre-release build of ZerOS. It is not recommend for use on live shows. When loading showfiles from previous versions of ZerOS, fixtures are highlighted in red within the Fixture Schedule. These are now “legacy” fixture personalities. The Fixture Schedule provides the ability to c

We'll be staging a product awareness live stream airing on Monday 24th August which will be broadcast from The Congress Theatre, Cwmbran which is the nearest local theatre venue to our manufacturing facility. Usually busy with a lively programme of music and performance shows in the centre of Cwmbran, The Congress has been repurposed to function as a virtual studio during the pandemic and for the immediate future. Located just five minutes from Zero 88, it is a perfect and convenient venue. The Zero 88 team will be highlighting some of our newest technologies and product releases dur

ZerOS, which runs on Linux, automatically creates virtual network interfaces each time you choose to use a different IP address.

You can set them to be different or the same, it’s completely up to you

Hi Nick, Thanks for your comments. Our priority is, and always has been, developing the console software and our remote apps. That's how we develop features such as award winning RigSync, patented colour interfaces, Apple Watch focus tool, and many more. We know a relatively low (but growing) percentage of our userbase use Phantom ZerOS. Those people who do use it, presumably do so because they find some use from it. I'd say that the displays, touch emulation, tracking backup etc all work very well, but that it's the front panel controls that are a little more tricky. We've spen

Please do, would be great to see you again!