What’s it like working as an Account Manager at AVI-SPL in a country where the company doesn’t have a local office? Has anyone here been in that situation? I’d love to hear about your experience.
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I'm commissioning an AV system in an open office/all-hands meeting space and running into issues with automatic camera tracking when presenters use wireless handheld microphones for voice reinforcement.

Equipment:

• Q-SYS Core 8 Flex
• 3 Q-SYS PTZ cameras
• 3 Shure MXA925 ceiling array microphones
• 4 Shure wireless handheld microphones
• Pendant speakers distributed throughout the space for local reinforcement
• Q-SYS Automatic Camera Preset Recall (ACPR) plugin

Room setup:

There's a relatively small stage with two large displays. Presenters typically walk around the stage while speaking into wireless handheld microphones. The MXA925s are positioned to cover the stage and audience, providing microphone pickup for conferencing as well as positional data for ACPR. There are pendant speakers throughout the stage area (its not that large)

The problem:

When someone speaks naturally without voice reinforcement, the system works pretty well. The MXA925s report the correct speaker position, and ACPR triggers the appropriate camera presets.

However, when someone uses a handheld microphone and their voice is reinforced through the pendant speakers, the MXA925s start reporting incorrect positional data.

My suspicion is that the ceiling arrays are picking up the amplified voice from the pendant speakers and having trouble distinguishing it from the presenter's actual location.

Since ACPR relies on the positional data from the MXA925s, the cameras end up switching to incorrect presets or not triggering at all

Has anyone successfully implemented MXA925-based camera tracking in a space with significant voice reinforcement? Are there any recommended settings or acoustic considerations that helped? I'm trying to figure out if this is an acoustic / design problem or if I haven't configured something correctly in Q-Sys or Shure Designer.

Would appreciate any suggestions or experiences from anyone who's dealt with a similar setup.

I've only ever known the industry in places like CA and AZ, curious what its like in PA, NY, NJ?

For example, I drive to all my projects and keep gear in my personal car. As a commissioning specialist its mostly my laptop, interconnects, and basic tools. The installation techs have company vans but traveling and parking usually isn't a major problem.

But how do you all do it in a place like NYC? Considering relocating to the east coast. I get the sense the work culture might be more intslense and that's sort of what im looking for.

Also most of the opening I see on the boards don't show compensation which I'm not used to but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places

Any feedback is appreciated

I’m installing touch panel automation for a city council chambers. They requested audio recording (I assume that they want to start and stop recording via the touch panel), with the option of recording video in the future. In a search on this sub I see a lot of Pearl devices being recommended. Is that the way to go, or are there different/better alternatives?

We have training room with 3 TVs (tv left, right, confi_monitor) - all functions are working to all three TVS LIKE i can route AirMedia, local inroom Pc and hdmi wall plate.

Issue is when I press power button from touch panel, only two TVs respond and screens goes blank but one of tv (tv_left) is not picking up this power command and stays powered ON

ALL 3 TVs are using LAN connection and no rs232 and I can see all IPS and I can ping from laptop and text console success

I did find when I run Netstat -a from console, the tv not powering off, the IP is not listed.

I already rebooted all devices and made no difference.

It was working all last month and issue started yesterday.

Any what maybe the fix or where to look for??

NEC TVs connected using LAN, crestron room controller behind each tv, dmps processor, amp, Shurep300, etc…

I ran simpl debugger too but it seems to respond showing display_left 0-1 or it says command sent,

Not sure if need to completely unplug power cable from tv and wait 10 minutes??

I do compare all settings as well and it looks same on all 3 TVs and cec are off.