r/CommercialAV

Hi everyone,

We have a medium-sized boardroom at our charity, with a TV mainly used for sharing presentations from laptops during meetings.

At the moment, we are looking for a better option than running a long HDMI cable across the room. Ideally, we would like a wireless setup that is simple, reliable, and easy for different people to connect to without too much hassle.

We are also working with a limited charity budget, so something cost-effective would be ideal.

What would people recommend as the best solution for this? Any advice or setup suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I laughed so hard when I looked at the photo presenting evidence of "suspicious, sophisticated digital equipment" that got three Russians expelled from Montenegro... Laptop, BMD or AJA converters, Streamdeck, random cables, APs, tripod etc. basically what every AV person carries around on the job 🤣

https://en.vijesti.me/news-b/black-chronicle/816461/UP-and-ANB-are-investigating-what-the-expelled-Russians-were-planning-to-do-with-the-suspicious-equipment.

I'm Located down in Texas and look forward to working as a AV Technician, Live Events and Conferences but unfortunately I fear not actually getting a AV Job and reading through the sub everyone recently states going straight for the Job and be sure that my resume and interview is top notch. I posted this for some reassurance for my decision to leave and go back home, to my sweet love of california. I'm 24 and I've been a music producer for some time, getting a cert would help me but i really really really want an AV Job badly. my nerves get back typing this cause i've been through hell the last few years of my life and getting this job would be a badge of honor and fu to life's adversity it's given me. thanks! anything would help and cheers!

In a classroom, I have 3 HDMI cables at the teacher's desk. Ultimately, they need to go to a computer as standard USB video (i.e., recognized as a webcam).

Rather than the going to the computer as 3 cameras, it would be ideal if they were recognized as a single webcam. And it would be best if there was a box on the teacher's desk with 3 big physical buttons: Cam1, Cam2, and Cam3. Each button would control which camera feed is going to the computer.

I also don't want a bunch of other buttons to confuse the teachers.

The cameras are all 4K, and it needs to output to the computer as 4K.

Does such a simple setup exist?

Hey all,

I have 4+ years of IT support experience, mostly full account lifecycle support: managing user accounts, mailboxes, folder provisioning, and the usual support tasks. In my previous roles, we typically triaged issues related to AV, Teams meeting rooms, and VoIP to the onsite team, so I don't have hands on experience when it comes to the actual troubleshooting. I'm confident I can pick up new tools and issues quickly since that's part of any support role, but I want to know how to go about closing this gap independently so the transition is smooth and I'm not relying on asking for help constantly once I start.

I'm starting an onsite support engineer role that includes AV support, mainly Microsoft Teams Rooms across different room tiers (huddle, standard, boardroom, executive rooms), plus VoIP and desk phone support, and eventually having input on equipment decisions, not just ticket resolution. I don't have hands on AV or telecom background, and I'd rather close that gap rather than learn it purely through trial and error.

If you're doing this job already, I'd love a roadmap on how to start learning the essentials. Basically, "if I were you, here's the order I'd learn this in."

Hello, I’m currently working on a small crestron system for a school project and am stuck on the programming since I only learned very rudimentary basics. Would appreciate any sort of guidance or help 🙇‍♀️

We are using SIMPL windows for the programming and the Pro3 processor for control of devices.

1 ) Can we upload the GUI to 2 different iPads on Crestron Go and how?
2 ) How do we program a fader for volume control? We have a audio DSP (DMP64) connected to the ceiling speakers and processor.
3 ) How do we program a physical toggle button to switch in between modes?

For context, the project is a divisible meeting room that can either be in separate room mode or combined room mode.
Room 1 has a TV while room 2 has a projector, and video switching should be available when in combined mode.
Combined/separate mode should be decided based on the button input and automatically switch to combined/separate mode depending on whether the button is pressed or not.

Thank you!

Would appreciate insights from people in the industry.

Title basically said it all: Salespeople who work for an AV integrator, what's your quota and OTE?

Our company is working on hiring our first full-time salesperson and I'm struggling to identify industry-standard quota and OTE benchmarks.

Thank you!

Hi all, I am curious to see if what I am attempting to setup will work with some inherited equipment. I apologize in advance for my naïveté regarding this network. I have been handling everything with simple unmanaged switches and a GLINET travel router.

I am looking to setup a mobile AV network using an inherited net gear M4250 8 port switch along with some unmanaged 8 port net gear switches.

We need to run the following:

VLAN1: 3 POE birddog ultra x4 cameras and ptz controller. As well as an ATEM constellation 2 ME, 6 hyper deck recorders.

VLAN2: Dante network with a Yamaha DM3, Tio stage box and 5-6 AVIO adapters for user machines.

VLAN3: connect to the internet and allow traffic for our wireless devices.

I would like to be able to connect my iPad/computer to control both the bird dog cameras on VLAN1 as well as the Audio equipment on VLAN2 while connecting my device to the internet on VLAN3. I use companion for control and would like to utilize that for everything.

If it won’t cause issues there is no reason I can’t combine VLAN1 and VLAN2 from a security standpoint. I’m just not sure if running a control network and a Dante network on the same VLAN is the best idea.

Any tips, suggestions or discussion is very much appreciated! I am opening to learning what I can and look forward to any assistance offered!

I would love to hear everyone’s favorite article /website/manufacturer newsletter/whatever source of AV news. I want to try to keep myself a little more up to date on industry trends, news, gear, best practices, anything! Of course keeping an active network of fellow engineers and peers is probably the best source, but what else do y’all got ? Even if it’s very niche/or AV-electronics-adjacent, give me what ya got !

Hi everyone,
We're currently looking for a good conference room speakerphone with a built-in microphone for small meetings, but we've run into a pretty unexpected issue.
The speakerphone should be suitable for meetings with 5-10 participants, where the maximum distance from the microphone is around 3 meters (10 ft).
So far, we've tested:
• Poly Sync 40+
• Jabra Speak2 55 MS
In both cases, the microphone quality was noticeably worse than the built-in microphone on a Dell Latitude 5430. This was true both when speaking close to the device and from a greater distance in the room.
We've tried pretty much everything we could think of:
• Connected via USB-A, USB-C, and Bluetooth
• Updated firmware and drivers from the manufacturers' websites
• Adjusted various Windows microphone settings and audio enhancements
• Tested multiple connection methods and configurations
Unfortunately, none of these changes improved the microphone quality.
Has anyone else experienced something similar with conference speakerphones? Is this just a limitation of these models, or could we be missing something?
We're looking for recommendations for a conference speakerphone in the $200–300 range, but we're also open to more expensive options if they provide significantly better microphone quality and can reliably pick up voices in meetings of this size.
Any suggestions or experiences would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to revive a legacy standalone setup with a Cisco Codec Plus and a Precision 60 camera. Right now, the camera won't update because the codec is pointing to a dead legacy server domain (management.join.vc) and throwing a Failed to connect / No route to host error.

I need to flash it locally over the web GUI to fix this, but I'm completely stuck trying to source the firmware package.

I’ve already exhausted the usual routes:

official cisco route - completely blocked - I don't have an active SmartNet contract, and Cisco's registration portal keeps throwing a "server error" and rejecting my personal email domain anyway

"index of" search - spent hours looking for halleyce9_15 or s53200ce9 PKG/COP files on open indices, but the mirrors I found are either dead or taken down

cloud/DevNet sandboxes are retired, so I can't spin up a quick Webex Control Hub trial org to let it auto-provision over the internet.

Does anyone happen to have a stable CE9 bundle (ideally halleyce9_15_3_26.pkg or the cmterm-synergy-ce9 COP file) sitting in their deployment archives that they could drop into a temporary Google Drive or Dropbox link?

Any pointers appreciated!

--- UPDATE ---

I forgot to mention that the whole reason I bought the codec is to get these cameras (got 3, couldn't help myself) to fully work standalone - full PTZ, exposure and other parameters control. Plan is to capture and reverse-engineer the codec-camera IP communication

--- UPDATE - Solved ---

When I initially set up the camera (wizard) provisioning was switched to some custom mode (codec tried to download the firmware from admin.vc or similar address). I did a lot of stuff at once, so I am not sure if provisioning config was enough:

>!Generally I've experimented with different provisioning configurations, and I think switching to webex integration (not webex edge/iot) has helped. I also created a free normal (not control hub) webex account and while clicking through found "devices" section in settings. It has an option to activate a device which generates the standard activation code. I did not have high hopes, but strangely the codec accepted the code happily! At some point codec upgrade started installing. Some time later the camera got silently upgraded to the same version (I didn't even notice at first because I expected CE camera firmware, but it has HC prefix with the following version number the same as codec software).!<

I have a friend who has 15+ years of experience in software and web development who has been out of work for a few months now. I'm thinking about having him start learning how to program Crestron (C#/HTML5) and Q-Sys, and I'm wondering if you fine Redditors had any tips that I could relay to him.

(Non A/V tech here, videographer) - our company is looking for a solution for capturing meeting notes in breakout rooms for regional meetings. We currently have people manually transcribing meeting notes, but we’re exploring options for auto transcription.

The breakouts usually consist of 10-12 people at conference tables, I’ve seen them use rounds but also boardroom style.

We would need non technical HQ staff to be able to use the system, and it would have to be portable enough for travel - something that can be shipped in a pelican case. My current thoughts with limited experience would be getting 3 omnidirectional boundary mics and then somehow connecting to the computer - that’s where my experience stops. if the mics were usb, that seems like a nightmare managing those and getting them all to read as one device on a computer. Then there’s the recording part - we did google meets before on a laptop and downloaded the recording after, which there’s gotta be a better way, right?

Any suggestions appreciated. This is very much so not my job, more of a brownie points thing and something I’m personally interested in learning about.

We have about 40 TC3 transceivers in operation across multiple buildings, interfacing with Q-SYS. We're running Dante cards in many of them. We've had many issues over the time we've gone to those (about 5 years ago).

I'd like to compare notes with other Aurora users out there. We're in St. Louis, and apparently the only Aurora user in this region, according to our rep. I've had no luck in finding any user communities where we can exchange ideas, especially about our network topology.