At InfoComm 2026 in Las Vegas, Obsidian Control Systems is launching CLU 2.0, the next generation of its configuration and management software for the NETRON product line. CLU 2.0 is built on QubiSet.
For us, this is a milestone. A major lighting network hardware brand evaluated what we were building and decided it was the right foundation for their next-generation tool. For NETRON users, it means CLU 2.0 arrives with the monitoring, configuration, and device management capabilities that QubiSet provides, tailored to the NETRON ecosystem. Like its predecessor, CLU 2.0 is a free download for those owning NETRON products.
How This Started
In April 2025, QubiCast had its first trade show booth at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt. It was a small startup booth. Next to us, Elation Professional with Obsidian Control Systems had the kind of presence you'd expect from a company of that size.
At some point during the show, their team walked over and took a look at QubiSet, which was in an early alpha stage at the time. The conversations that followed turned into a partnership. What started as a neighbor noticing something interesting at a trade fair became the foundation for CLU 2.0.
That trajectory, from a first booth to powering a product line used across the professional lighting industry, happened in just over a year.
What This Means for QubiSet
While CLU 2.0 and QubiSet are built on the same foundation, they answer different needs for the user.
CLU 2.0 is your deep-dive tool for NETRON. It utilizes our shared core, including custom HTTP endpoint integrations we developed to pull rich, device-specific data alongside standard protocols to offer absolute control over NETRON firmware, presets, and I/O.
QubiSet is designed for scale. It is hardware-agnostic, providing a unified dashboard for your entire rig. Because QubiSet needs to handle massive, multi-brand networks, its unique development focus is on high-level orchestration.
In our upcoming release, this means introducing powerful system-management features like Bulk Edit (updating IPs and modes across multiple devices simultaneously) and custom, color-coded Groups to organize complex network maps.
The shared foundation means both apps get faster, more reliable discovery, while retaining their unique workflow advantages.
And the real-world testing that comes from a product deployed across NETRON's install base pushes the platform in ways that lab testing alone never could.
What This Means for the Industry
Lighting network tools have historically been built by each hardware manufacturer in isolation. Every brand ships its own configuration utility, its own firmware update tool, its own monitoring dashboard. The result is a fragmented tooling landscape where venue technicians juggle multiple applications to manage a single network.
CLU 2.0 being built on QubiSet represents a different approach: a shared platform that manufacturers can build on rather than building from scratch.
The monitoring, discovery, and protocol handling layers don't need to be reinvented by every company. The manufacturer-specific parts (device configuration, presets, firmware) sit on top of a common foundation.
Whether other manufacturers follow this path remains to be seen. But the model is now proven in production.
See It in Action
CLU 2.0 is currently being previewed at InfoComm 2026. If you are at the show, stop by the Obsidian Control Systems booth (N6145) to get a hands-on look at the next generation of NETRON management.
For everyone else, you do not have to wait to experience the network engine powering this new integration. If you want to explore the extended system-level workflow tools we are building for massive multi-brand networks (like Bulk Edit, Grouping Devices and RDM sensor data monitoring) QubiSet is currently free during our open beta.
