Video Conferencing & Hybrid Workspace Solutions

Logitech positions the Rally Bar Mini for small meeting and huddle rooms, the Rally Bar for medium to large rooms, and the modular Rally Plus for large rooms and boardrooms. The Rally Bar Mini has a 120-degree diagonal field of view and 4x digital zoom.

The Rally Bar has 15x HD zoom, of which 5x is optical, and a 90-degree field of view. The modular Rally system supports up to 7 Mic Pods and 2 speakers, and Logitech shows it in layouts of up to 46 seats.

The Logitech Rally Bar supports up to 3 additional Rally Mic Pods, and the Rally Bar Mini up to 2. The modular Rally and Rally Plus systems support up to 7 Mic Pods in total.

Each Mic Pod has a pickup range of 4.5 m and a mute button. Add pods when seats are beyond the reach of the bar's own microphones, typically at the far end of a long table, and use Rally Mic Pod Extension Cables of 10 m each for longer runs.

No. The Logitech Rally Bar and Rally Bar Mini can run a meeting platform on their built-in computer in appliance mode, so the room needs no separate PC. Logitech lists Microsoft Teams, Zoom Rooms and RingCentral among the platforms that can run on the device.

The same bars can also run in USB mode, connected to a room PC or a laptop that runs the meeting software. Choose the mode before ordering, because it decides the touch controller and the licences the room needs.

A video bar such as the Logitech Rally Bar combines the camera, microphones and speakers in one unit at the display, which keeps installation simple in small and medium rooms.

A modular system such as the Logitech Rally Plus separates them: a PTZ camera at the display, two speakers and two Mic Pods as standard, and up to 7 Mic Pods in total. That lets the speakers and microphones be placed where a large room needs them.

The Logitech Rally Bar has 15x HD zoom, made up of 5x optical and 3x digital zoom, with a motorised pan and tilt and a 90-degree diagonal field of view. Its total room coverage with pan and tilt is 132.1 degrees horizontal by 82.2 degrees vertical.

This optical zoom keeps people at the far end of a medium or large room sharp. The Rally Bar Mini instead uses 4x digital zoom with a wider 120-degree view, suited to small rooms where people sit close to the camera.

Yes, with a BYOD connector. Logitech Swytch links a guest laptop to the room camera, microphones and display with one USB cable, and Logitech Extend does the same over category cable for up to 100 m, with up to 100 W of laptop charging.

The guest then runs their meeting platform on the laptop while using the room's audio and video. Logitech Extend works in BYOD mode with the Rally Bar family.

Use a wired USB headset such as the Logitech Zone Wired for a fixed desk, where it needs no charging and plugs into the computer. Use a Bluetooth headset such as the Yealink BH72 for people who move between desk, meeting rooms and mobile phone calls.

Both keep speech clearer than a laptop microphone in an open office. Choose a model that matches the company's meeting platform and check that IT can manage firmware updates for it.

Place the camera at the display, at about eye level, so remote participants see people looking towards them. The whole table should fit inside the camera's field of view: 120 degrees diagonal on the Logitech Rally Bar Mini and 90 degrees on the Rally Bar.

Avoid a window behind the seats, which leaves faces in shadow. The Logitech Rally Mounting Kit fixes the Rally camera and speakers at the display.

Glass walls, stone floors and bare ceilings reflect sound, so microphones pick up echo and room noise as well as speech. Remote participants hear the room as hollow, even when it sounds fine to the people inside.

Soft furnishings, acoustic panels and carpet reduce reflections. Placing Logitech Rally Mic Pods closer to the talkers, within their 4.5 m pickup range, also improves the ratio of speech to echo. Test speech from the remote side before handover.

Plan with six facts: the number of rooms by size, the seats and table length in each, the meeting platform, whether guests bring their own laptops, the number of desks and home workers, and how IT will manage the devices.

These decide between a Logitech Rally Bar Mini, Rally Bar or Rally Plus per room, how many Mic Pods are needed, whether BYOD connectors are fitted and which headsets each user gets.