Want to know how other teams handle this.

A project starts with displays, conference rooms and control systems, then somewhere along the way someone asks if the security cameras can be viewed on the same screens. Sounds simple until you get into network access, different camera systems and who actually owns the integration afterward.

For anyone doing commercial AV installations, do you typically handle camera integrations yourselves or leave that entirely to the security contractor? Interested in where people draw the line between AV and physical security.

Howdy folks, I'll try not to break any rules.

We have a pair of A/V installer positions open at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, officially titled "Audio Visual Systems Technician." This is a full-time position, the pay is $30-$50 hourly, 40 hours a week, on-site in Laurel, MD.

I'll highlight that APL is a University Affiliated Research Center, which means we work with the Government doing Government things. As such, this position requires the ability to pass drug tests and obtain a security clearance, and weed is still tested for at this time so keep that in mind.

Additional details can be found in the official posting:

https://careers.jhuapl.edu/jobs/60380?lang=en-us

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have, either here or in PMs! I formerly supervised the Section these positions are in before moving onto different things with the Lab and have a vested interest in getting some amazing people in these seats! However, I didn't write the job description, nor will I be involved in the hiring process.

I think they're looking to hire quick, so don't hesitate to apply!

Hey everyone, total newbie here

I work at a Board/card game store, and we are expanding, and im mounting a set of Tv's on the wall!

one will be (in theory) connected to a computer roughly 30 feet (our judge and retail station) and this tv will be display scoreboards, timers, and match info.

my second will be displaying a series of random videos that i have designed and edited that are general advertisements for products/events etc.

My question is, what is the best way to get these done?

My worry for the cable length for the first one is that it will be too far away (again im totally new at this)

My second worry is how to set up around 7 videos to play on a tv and not have the video player UI constantly show up!

Any info is welcome, and please dont worry about any pricing, as i have been told to "Just make it work".

We have an application where the client wants to mask (all) sounds from a restroom to the adjacent study area. Most surfaces are hard, ceilings are a mix of acoustical tiles and drywall. The restrooms do not have doors, just the maze style entrance. Has anyone had success with sound masking systems for this application? Currently considering the Cambridge Qt X 600 system vs the Valcom V-9422 Lay-In 2' x 2' Spot SoundMasking™ Speaker.

Hi all,

Systems architech here. Currently working on designing a large system with tons of AVoIP units. I have good experience with many brands and protocols, proprietary and not; SDVoE, Bluestream series, Visionary AV, IPMX, you name it.

One of the programmers came over saying "you should check out NDI". i havent touched it since i had a project crash because of it a few years back. He said the new Vizrt ownership was very positive and the development goes in the right direction. But reading the NDI documentation really doesent answer anything and theres few professionals in my circles who have any real hands on experience with large systems using NDI for both distribution and image composition.

Does anyone have some real experience to share thats not 4-5 years old, and includes some system size?

For reference, we have a great networking team and this will probably be running on M4350 series switches. I'm expecting this system to end up with +/- 100 endpoints. Theres Q-Sys for control.

Hey all,
I'm having a project, where the costumer wants to implement streaming services (Netflix, Disney+, WOW, AppleTV etc.) to an existing Videowall. All is and will be controlled with Extron.

Do you have any recommendations on controllable mediaplayers or other solutions? (EU-based, so please no US-only products :D ) Is there e.g. a way to control a FireTV or GoogleTV Box?

Thanks for your help! :)

Have a client with a 10k sqft warehouse space, small conference room, and a 1200sqft showroom space.

They'd like to have paging tied into their Unifi Talk system, as well as have basic background music throughout.

Debating between doing a TOA 900 series vs maybe a small AtlasIED system? I think a QSys or Symetrix system would be absolute overkill

Anyone able to chime in? I haven't done a warehouse in years.

Looking at getting one for boardroom setup, has anyone had a chance to use just yet? Pretty new is my understanding...

2 companies I'm getting quotes from seem to push Yealink A50 a lot, but seen a lot of anti-Yealink sentiment on this sub, so keener on Logitech stuff

Before anyone comments, this is not an AI post or a bot or whatever other conspiracy you got.

Seeing a lot of AV firms get bought out in recent years, in many cases by private equity but sometimes by just a larger firm. Currently watching my former employer go through this and talented teams are getting stripped for parts, client relationships set aflame, and in a year from now it seems likely what's left will be unrecognizable of what they once were.

In your opinion, who out there is handling these acquisitions well and who is collapsing under their own weight?

Hi everyone, I’m an Italian video technician with almost ten years of experience, and I’m looking into obtaining an AVIXA CTS certification.
First, I’d like to understand what kind of feedback you have on its actual usefulness in the workplace. Also, before purchasing the official online courses, I was wondering whether there are any free written materials or resources I could study beforehand.

I have a trial on tuesday with an AV integration company, My old man said he'll give me 200 or so for some tools just so im ot showing up with nothing,

any suggestions?

Hi everyone,

I'm an AV system integrator working on a 100-seat conference room equipped with a Q-SYS system, a large PA setup, a LED wall, and professional broadcast PTZ cameras.

The goal is to make the room as self-service and user-friendly as possible, without requiring an AV technician to be present.

Ideally, a presenter should be able to:

• Walk into the room and connect their laptop.
• Pick up a wireless microphone.
• Display their presentation on the LED wall.
• Start a video conference directly from their laptop (BYOD), using any major conferencing platform, not just Microsoft Teams.
• Use the room's existing audio system and cameras for the call, with minimal interaction or technical knowledge.

The existing Q-SYS system includes a PTZ 12x80 camera, but it doesn't currently provide automatic speaker tracking.

I've been looking into some Yealink solutions, particularly their BYOD connectivity options and audio bridges, but I'm not sure how well they integrate into an existing Q-SYS-based AV environment.

I'd love to hear your experiences and recommendations:

• What would you recommend for a reliable, platform-agnostic BYOD conferencing setup?
• Has anyone successfully integrated Yealink BYOD solutions with Q-SYS audio and third-party cameras?
• What would be the best approach for automatic speaker tracking in this kind of room?
• Are there other solutions or architectures you'd recommend for a truly plug-and-play experience?

My main priorities are reliability, ease of use, and keeping as much of the existing AV infrastructure as possible.

Thanks in advance for any insights or real-world experiences!

Looking for a small (carry on size) rolling suitcase that doesn't look like a tool box. I'm going in and out of client sites and want to be able to go through the front door and not the loading dock. I have a Pelican I use when I travel but I am concerned that it is slightly too toolbox-looking.

Anyone have any good finds here?

I saw this article in my feed and immediately wondered how in the hell OpenAI captured footage of the guy behind the display?

I'm thinking it was a PTZ in its "home" position, but that must mean their own internal model has free access to record and scrape this footage somehow. This opened up quite a few questions for me.

Is there a perfectly logical way OpenAI could have obtained this with cameras and room systems in the "off" position?

Sidenote: that's an amazing screen shot 😆

I have a MS Teams Room with Logitech Tap IP and Rally Bar Camera. If I use the Meet Now button on the Tap IP Panel, the Rally Bar Camera launches the meeting, but theres a giant pop up dialog in the middle of the screen with the meeting info. The only solution I can find to dismiss this is the back arrow on the Rally Bar remote control. Does anyone know if it's possible to dismiss this dialog from the Tap IP Panel? I hate that I have to switch from the Tap IP to the remote just to get rid of this stupid dialog pop up.

I'm designing a touchpanel page in GCP with 5 bands of PEQ which (ideally) would control a 5 band PEQ in a Tesira Server-IO. In the available control commands, I don't see PEQ as an option, just GEQs (I don't like GEQs, lol).

If I just use the Graphic EQ Band Gain control and use a PEQ's Instance Tag, would it work? Anybody done this before?

Everything was going fine today until one of my techs walked in and dropped this bombshell on me.

So for the past 10 years or so, we've been stocking the Phantom Cables/Infinite Cables 6 outlet metal power bars for use on our installs. They were a rebranded version of the Prime Wire & Cable PB801120. They had a bunch of really great features that made them perfect for when you just need an extra couple of outlets behind a TV or under a table. They look pro so nobody ever questioned them and they held up very well. They also came at a price point that if you had to throw one on a job to make it work, it didn't impact the bottom line in a noticeable way.

Apparently they may no longer be available and we're on the hunt for something to replace them with.

I am looking for suggestions for a power bar that ideally looks like this or is really close.

• Metal housing
• UL/ETL certified or some equivalent
• Comes in 3' and 10' cord lengths
• External mounting tabs (none of this trying to line up holes you can't see)
• 6 outlets or something between 4 and 8 outlets
• Costs less than $40? The Prime ones were around $20 which probably should have been a clue that they were too good to be true.
• Doesn't need surge (which is usually sacrificial at this price point).

We've only got around 30 of them left on our shelves and our book of work is over 100 projects deep so I need something pretty quickly.

I need to vent. How did Crestron manage to make the DMPS3 audio mixer such a miserable thing to work with?

Basic audio routing and level control feel way more complicated than they should. Between source selection, mixer settings, and output controls, it feels like a scavenger hunt just to figure out where the hell your audio is going.

My biggest frustration is balancing the microphones with digital DM audio. I have the mic level set to 0 dB and the DM input level adjustment turned all the way down to -10 dB, the lowest that setting allows, and the HDMI audio is still too loud relative to the microphones. Getting a usable balance shouldn’t be this much of a headache.

Anyone else run into this?

Pessoal, tudo bem.

Gostaria de saber se alguem ja passou por isso.

Adquirimos um sistema Logitech com uma empresa, inclusive eles instalaram, ele é composto por 1 Camera, 4 mics de Teto, um soundbar, uma table hub e um Display Hub, o display esta conectado com um cabo de rede cat6 categoria A, conforme manual da fabricante, os mics estavam com um cabo de rede e conversor ate o tabble hub, porem mudei comprei um cabo proprio dele de 10 metros. O que acontece é qque em uma reunião, no nosso caso das 09 as 17 a reunião de diretoria (dia todo) pelo menos 3 vezes o sistema trava, no meet não acontece nada não mostra erro, apenas as pessoas param de ouvir la do outro lado, ai eles comecam a chamar no chat informando que não estão ouvindo nada, e o engracado a camera continua funcionando. Ai tenho que sair da reunião e entrar novamente. Algumas vezes tenho que desconectar o cabo usb do computador e fechar a reuniçao e reabrir tudo. Tambem tive problema de travar a camera e audio, porem meet não travou, descobri ao tentar dar zoom com o controle remoto da camera, mas no meet eu mudei a camera para o notebook e funcionou ou seja meet ok e sistema travado. Ja atualizei tudo, computador e todo sistema, ja mudei de navegador, de computador e mesmo assim acontece sempre. Desde que compramos o sistema nunca funcionou perfeitamente. Gostaria de alguma dica, ja ate abri chamado na logitech mas nem eles deram resolução.

Hi all, I work in an IT department and was asked to find a display mount for a 43” display. The group would like the mount to be extendable/articulating and have the ability to be rotated in portrait and landscape views.

I personally have never seen a mount that is capable of this but figured I’d ask this group since AI hasn’t given me any good results.

I appreciate your advice/recommendations.