u/domozilla777

So I am the only AV engineer for a museum in DC. Being the only AV staff on site, I cannot do everything myself so I occasionally need to reach out to contractors and integrators to help with larger installs. The company I am currently working with is quoting a very high price imo for some programming and install work I am planning for this Fall, so I wanted to explore my options with other companies. I've reached out to maybe 5-10 different integrators around the DMV area and its just crickets from all of them.

I'm pretty confused by this as it isn't a super hard job I am asking for. It's probably 5 days of work max. My method so far is to go to the company's website and fill in the "Contact Us" page. Or, email the sales POC if they have it advertised. So far, absolutely nothing. I feel like I have written out a clear, professional, and concise proposal of what I would like done. Am I going about this wrong? Should I call their office and make an inquiry that way? Do companies just not want my money? Is this just a thing with DMV AV companies?

I am pretty new to this side of AV with project management and things like that, usually I am on the receiving end. Anyone with experience in this kind of work please let me know if I am missing something! Thanks!

Hey all, trying to add some NL-SB42 speakers into my museum and I'm having some trouble getting them to show up in QSYS. When I load my code it shows that the speaker is Missing and when I go to Configurator it only shows the Core610. I don't understand why the peripherals are not showing up. We have lots of QSYS devices in the museum and I can see them talking to the Core in the core manager web interface. As a note, the speaker is plugged into a switch that is part of a stack which goes back to the Core switch, which then goes into the qsys core.

Also, I would just configure the device directly, but the NL-SB42 sound bar doesn't have an IP address. Is there any way to set this up? do I need to plug the speaker directly into the Core's QLAN port for it to work? I'm just confused and there isn't much documentation that helps with this.

Thanks for any advice you have!