Audio Video monitoring workstation

A/V Monitoring Workstation installation

• OS version
• Video driver
• VLC settings

Starting the AV monitoring workstation, services and applications

• Turn on the workstation
• Log in as user 'monitor'
• Make sure you have networking
• Start Jackd

    /home/all/jackd &
  

• Start the monitoring suite of VLC instances

    /home/all/monitor_all
  

• We are using the i3 desktop. Some useful keyboard shortcuts are:

Key	Function
Windows-Arrow	Switch focus to next window
Windows-Shift-Arrow	Move the currently focused window
Windows H	Tile the currently focused window horizonally
Windows-Shift-Number	Move the currently focused window to monitor 'Number'
Windows-D	Open the menu
Windows-V	Tile the currently focused window vertically
Alt Enter	Open a shell

Troubleshooting the AV monitoring workstation

• If a VLC instance hangs

  pkill -f 
  

The camera control web page

* Connect to the camera control page * Choose a room from the yellow menu bar at the top of the screen * The slides display in the lower right, the video stream in the upper left of the screen

Controls

• Camera controls
  • Pan moves the camera left and right
  • Tilt moves the camera up and down. Zero is looking straight out.
  • Zoom controls are not currently stable. After making a change either numerically or by using the handles you need to click on another control to execute the change.
  • Step affects the amount the handles (up and down arrows) change the value for the other three controls
• Signs allows the conference slide show to be rebooted
• Overflow Streaming allows splitting the stream to a second room
• Recording allows control of the recorded stream
  • If the center section of the slider disappears refresh the page
• KVM
  • Side A of the KVM displays the show banner stream
  • Side B of the KVM is for the presenter's slides
• The Scan Converter controls affect the slides