Richmond and forum members,
I'm attaching a schematic of a proposed solution for a hybrid zoom meeting. I created the schematic in the new Apple app called Freeform.
In this scenario, I contemplate, community residents gathering in any of our several Wind Crest senior community meeting rooms that are equipped with a digital projector, wall-sized screen, wireless hand-held mics, audio amp and ceiling speakers. And I'm assuming that other hypothetical participants are attending remotely by Zoom.
Those existing video and audio electronics in our various meeting rooms potentially provides significant cost savings when compared to many hybrid Zoom solutions. I propose to simply use two existing resident-owned Mac (or PC?) laptops (one for the presenter and the other for the Zoom host), and an existing iPhone (e.g. iPhone 16) with 1x to 5x telephoto capability mounted on a tripod. The only out of pocket costs are the CAMO Studio app for Mac ($50) and the pair of wireless mics and matching dual-channel wireless receiver that plugs into a mobile phone or computer (I highly recommend the $200 Ankerworks 650 kit from Amazon).
Before I actually test this configuration, I'm asking any of you to please troubleshoot this proposal. Will it work? In particular, will the audio from the presenter and in-room participants work? That audio is being fed via the wireless mics into the Zoom Host computer. Will the Zoom technology that normally prevents a zoom participant from hearing their own voice result in suppressing that audio input into the Zoom Host computer and prevent the in-room attendees from hearing the audio input into the Zoom Host computer?
Any suggestions from any of you would be appreciated.
-Barry Peters
Resident Volunteer Tech Help Coordinator at Wind Crest (an Erickson community)
earth.justice@gmail.com