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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