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VidyoPanorama™

Installation and Configuration Guide

System Version 1.0

Document Version 1.0-B

Summary of Contents for VidyoPanorama

Page 1: ...VidyoPanorama Installation and Configuration Guide System Version 1 0 Document Version 1 0 B...

Page 2: ...3032 7643560 7701851 and 7948886 as well as additional International patents and pending U S or International patent applications owned by Vidyo Inc About This Guide 5 If You re Installing VidyoPanora...

Page 3: ...VidyoRemote 32 3 Configuring VidyoPanorama 34 Accessing the Admin Pages 34 Viewing System Information 35 Configuring the Portal Credentials 37 Configuring the VidyoPanorama Settings and Options 38 Con...

Page 4: ...CONTENTS 4 Configuring Audio and Video Devices 50 Obtaining Logging Information 51 Viewing the Statistics 52 Performing Controller Node and Configuration File Administration 53 Viewing the About Infor...

Page 5: ...s furniture choice placement of the displays seating arrangements camera position and angles and many other factors Therefore to ensure the highest quality audio and video for your VidyoPanorama syste...

Page 6: ...echnology such as the camera and microphones Trying to get an across the table feel Not all of these principles are applicable to all meeting configurations of course For example a room with nine disp...

Page 7: ...ommended seating distance For example a 65 in display can be viewed up to 16 3 ft 4 96 m away which is beyond our 7 ft 2 13 m to 12 ft 3 66 m ideal seating range However the extra distance allows an a...

Page 8: ...oth Many customers choose to place all the displays near each other on the same wall to enable the conference participants to more easily view all the screens at once When determining how to lay out y...

Page 9: ...bot tom row In two rows with the larger display in the center of the top row and the three equal sized dis plays in the bottom row We decide this is what we want so we lay out the displays like this W...

Page 10: ...zed displays For guidelines see the previous page 3 In the table below indicate how you want your displays laid out by crossing out the unused display icons or by circling the group of display icons t...

Page 11: ...Chapter 1 Preparing for the Installation 11 Here s an example of how the Display Layout Worksheet would look if we wanted to lay out our displays as shown in Example 3 on page 9 65 52 52 52...

Page 12: ...r camera in the wall Doing so will make the camera less obtrusive as well as provide you with easy access to the back of the camera No matter how you attach your camera try to make it as unobtrusive i...

Page 13: ...g 26 50 in 67 m per participant that have fairly low backs and that are a muted or dark color When deciding where to place the table in the room consider the location of the camera and displays Rememb...

Page 14: ...orama room The distance between the displays and the equipment rack can be minimized thereby reducing the need to purchase extender cables You can recess the camera in the wall between or above the di...

Page 15: ...erefore if your room does have windows you should install acoustical window treatments or blackout curtains Flooring Walls and Ceilings A room where the floor is carpeted the walls are composed of dry...

Page 16: ...Drives Power Supply RAID Intel Xeon E3 1200 product family 80W 2 x 3 5 SATA 7 2k 500GB 1 x 250W PERC H200 Standby 2 8 16 None Idle 5 2 40 None Active hard drives 5 2 41 None Stressed processor 5 2 41...

Page 17: ...een 3 000 and 3 500 Kelvin and about 70 foot candles of intensity at the subject Lighting for video can involve as many as four lighting positions which are explained below with the Key Light being th...

Page 18: ...ore if you have known vibration issues consult the building manager or an architect to determine the optimal placement for the camera Power When determining your power consumption you may find this in...

Page 19: ...cable Ethernet cables 7 ft 2 133 m one per Decoder Node and one for the Controller Node all connect to the Net work switch VISCA camera control serial cable 15 ft 4 57 m DVI to DVI camera cable Power...

Page 20: ...mixer Interact microphones wireless Interact Dialer W wireless Interact Com W and two wall mountable speakers ClearOne Interact AT with Mix EX and XLR microphones USB I O audio interface with audio a...

Page 21: ...Checking the Rack Mounting Rack mount rails are provided with VidyoPanorama to enable you to install the Controller Node and Decoder Nodes into your equipment rack You must ensure that these rails wi...

Page 22: ...r Uninterruptible Power Supply UPS You may have more than one PDU or UPS depending on how many Decoder Nodes you have Wireless access point Network switch Audio mixer or audio amplifier The ClearOne I...

Page 23: ...ocument also provides information about other optional peripherals that you can install such as various microphones network switches wireless access points and so forth To connect the cables 1 Connect...

Page 24: ...that you want to use with the Controller Node connect a USB connector on a USB to USB cable to a USB port on the Controller Node and connect the USB connector on the other end of the cable to the keyb...

Page 25: ...r on the other end of the cable to the Link In port on the In teract Mic EX c Connect the RJ 45 connector on an RJ 45 cable to the Link Out port on the Interact Mic EX and connect the RJ 45 connector...

Page 26: ...tor on a USB cable to a USB connector on the Controller Node and connect the USB connector on the other end of the cable to the Interact Com W b Connect the RJ 45 connector on an RJ 45 cable to the Li...

Page 27: ...ctor on an XLR cable to the Audio Left Out port on the USB audio in terface and connect the XLR connector on the other end of the cable to the Audio Input port on audio amplifier mixer c Connect an XL...

Page 28: ...each Decoder Node to the PDU or UPS c Connect the power cable from the KVM to the PDU or UPS d Connect the power cable from the audio mixer to the PDU or UPS e Connect the power cable from the wireles...

Page 29: ...name is accurate and to assign the node names The Decoder Nodes will each automatically obtain an IP address using DHCP If no DHCP server is present they will generate their own IP address that way yo...

Page 30: ...lp you remember which display it is This is especially important if you have a VidyoPanorama system with a lot of displays Some people like to use a name that refers to the display s physical location...

Page 31: ...hese settings click the Restore Defaults button to restore the settings to their factory defaults 14 Repeat the previous steps for each Decoder Node Troubleshooting and Obtaining Information About the...

Page 32: ...forth and so on Click the System tab to identify which display the Decoder Node is connected to restart and re boot the Decoder Node and select the configuration file decoder file and system file Clic...

Page 33: ...yoPortal URL The default URL of the VidyoRemote is panremote html By doing this whenever the VidyoRemote boots up it will automatically access the Portal URL 2 When you access the URL enter VidyoPanor...

Page 34: ...pages you will have access to only the System Information and About tabs You will also have to specify an Admin user name and password and then log in From then on you will have access to all the Admi...

Page 35: ...wing section After that you should go to the Credentials tab described on page 37 to configure the VidyoPortal credentials and then go to the Configuration tab described on page 38 to configure your V...

Page 36: ...oller Node software name IPV4 Address The IP address Portal The name of the VidyoPortal User The name of the user who is logged in Selected Camera The camera that is currently showing video Selected S...

Page 37: ...irst time Note that VidyoPanorama uses a Normal user account To configure the portal credentials 1 Select the Admin page Credentials tab 2 Enter the VidyoPortal URL in the Portal field 3 Enter the Vid...

Page 38: ...a call Configuring the Cluster To configure the cluster 1 Select the Admin page Configuration tab 2 If needed click the blue triangle next to the word Cluster to view the cluster settings 3 Enter the...

Page 39: ...o Encoding Resolution to view the video encoding settings 3 Select the 720p or the 1080p radio button 1080p is the default 1080p 60 that is 4 Select the encode bitrate from the Encode Bitrate dropdown...

Page 40: ...content whenever it is shared clear the checkmark from the autoshowcontent checkbox Autoshowcontent is enabled by default Vidyo highly recommends that you keep it enabled Note If you use the Share bu...

Page 41: ...lease Showing Indications For more information about what the indications are see the Indications section on page 48 To show indications 1 Select the Admin page Configuration tab 2 If needed click the...

Page 42: ...he maximum Self View A Self View display shows the video from the VidyoPanorama camera at your local site Content A Content display shows any content shared from the local or remote sites You can comb...

Page 43: ...ntent is being shared two displays are showing Single Stream video and the third display is showing four sites in a CP If the participant in one of the Single Stream displays leaves which site from th...

Page 44: ...dth the corresponding number of screens will appear in the center part of the Display Layout page In our example we entered 2 for the width and 3 for the height therefore two rows and three columns of...

Page 45: ...ch display type that you want to assign to that display If you select CP as the display type a pop up box asks you how many tiles you want to assign to that CP Select the number and click Ok Remember...

Page 46: ...e full size on that display We could continue selecting more checkboxes for the displays by thinking of other conference sce narios but to keep our example simple we will stop at one or two checkboxes...

Page 47: ...ill be the second to display indications and so on If you click Identify the display name appears on the physical display s for ten seconds so you can make sure you assigned the appropriate displays N...

Page 48: ...Indications display the name purple 1 appears in the Indications box at the bottom of the page You can then use the up and down arrows in the Indications box to place the displays in the order in whi...

Page 49: ...y the Decoder Nodes for each display and restart or reboot the Decoder Nodes when you are not in a video call To manage the remote nodes 1 Select the Admin page Remote Nodes tab 2 Select either the Dy...

Page 50: ...f the Decoder Node will appear briefly on its associated display 5 If you want to restart or reboot a Decoder Node select the Restart or Reboot button for that Decoder Node 6 If you want to disassocia...

Page 51: ...to the word Video to view the video devices 7 Select the camera from the Camera Left dropdown list Camera Left is the only camera option available with the VidyoPanorama version 1 0 release 8 Click t...

Page 52: ...io and content as well as the total actual available bandwidth It also displays the actual receive bandwidth Rx Bandwidth available for video audio and content as well as the total actual available ba...

Page 53: ...view the statistics 1 Select the Admin page Statistics tab 2 Click the Start button to start viewing the statistics 3 Click the Stop button to stop viewing the statistics PERFORMING CONTROLLER NODE A...

Page 54: ...n file and you want to save those changes click the Save Configuration button 4 If you need to restore your configuration file a Click the first Choose File button to browse for the file The file that...

Page 55: ...5 VIEWING THE ABOUT INFORMATION The VidyoRemote About tab provides information about VidyoPanorama To view the About information 1 Select the Admin page About tab 2 View information about the Controll...

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