👗 🙆🏼 🔜 Assembled a video conferencing harvester at Jabra Panacast, pluses and minuses for office and home ☮️ 🍞 🚥

Good afternoon, dear community members!

Today is the 5th day of self-isolation and really want to share something interesting. I decided to describe my experience of moving to a home mode of work because of the lack of coercion introduced in the country and the organization of my remote working web office.

The purpose of the article is to talk about how I tested a working solution for quickly organizing a video conference to reach a team of 12+ people offline.

The audience of the article is the leaders of small companies and team groups, which periodically face the need to organize full-fledged communication in a group of 3+ people and are tired of looking into the camera of a laptop to say something.

My build:

Jabra Panacast is a 4K camera with a viewing angle of 180 degrees,
Jabra Speak 710 is a speaker with a microphone,
DIGI 2 tripod - found in bins,
Notebook Macbook Pro 13 2017,
ZOOM program - initially it was Hangouts but the limit of 10 people did not suit us.

For those who like unpacking (like me)

The camera is in a classic box of recycled cardboard, which pleases. Plastic is less than in the Chinese packaging of protective glass for the phone - bravo!

Inside there is a minimal set of waste paper: the

USB 3.0 cable is apparently very shielded due to what it resembles an antenna in terms of stiffness :) If there is no tripod, you will encounter a situation when the tail wags the dog - the camera will spring across the table with the laptop.

The camera itself is very small, almost with a credit card and light, so it was transferred to a MacBook USB-C cable which is softer and longer.

The column is still simpler, the column itself, instructions and warranty:

This is my second Jabra Speak 710 column - I bought the first one back in 2017 and it flew with me half the country and held more than a dozen meetings. I must say that it was made to the highest standards - an indestructible, metal top, in the center there is a large broadband speaker. Holding in hands is very nice.

There is a built-in leg, as well as a USB dongle, which, as I understand it, allows you to connect it to old computers without bluetooth - I never even took it out myself.

Installation on the system - who cares

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Testing

Office

Quarantine was announced on March 30, so testing was carried out in an emergency office mode - March 27 - on Friday, just before the weekend before quarantine week. Conducted training with remote personnel - how to work at home, set tasks, installed RDP.

I didn’t have time to prepare a tripod, so I installed it in a product sample :) The

wow effect of course on a face connected to a 4K DELL monitor - even its width was not enough to display a full-length picture - these are 180 degrees so long.

The camera automatically zooms in on the person who is currently speaking - it is very similar to the Cisco conference system of our senior partners. The only negative or feature - in the Jabra application, auto zoom could not be turned off, but it can easily be turned off in the Panacast application - how so?

The colors are very vibrant and balanced, the dynamic range is very wide. At some point I caught myself thinking that I was trying to justify the invested 80+ thousand rubles, but no - the matrixes of the cameras are really very worthy, colleagues from that side on Cisco also noted the quality.

The loudspeakers were paired with each other via a wireless protocol and worked in pairs. But it should be noted that one speaker would be enough for our office, which can not be said about the microphone. Microphones are not as sensitive as we would like, so two speakers for a given table length turned out to be optimal.

The speakers hold a charge for about 4 hours, no wires - only hardcore.

House

Home testing is not so "wide", but more lamp :) I

placed it on the dining table, especially by backlight, to evaluate how my new camera can handle this light.

My new office for 17 people.

Comparison of the width of the angle:

The width of an ordinary camera

The full width of Panacast (sorry for the quality of Yandex. Screenshots reaped)

Of course, such a width is not needed in self-isolation, the camera itself is brought closer if there is nobody around.

By the way, the camera has its own microphone, which is quite functional.

He noted that the camera heats up significantly during operation - somewhere it constantly keeps 45-50 degrees, I don’t know why, but if there is no charge at hand, then the laptop’s battery will melt 30 percent faster than usual - this should be taken into account.

Summary

Pluses of my assembly (in my opinion):

+ quick unpacking and installation out of the box for 5-10 minutes with software,
+ small camera size allows you to organize a conference call anywhere in any office,
+ 4K video quality,
+ a single ecosystem of sound + video, no conflicts and freezes,
+ just the perfect studio sound.

Cons:

- the camera significantly heats up - read, converts electricity to heat,
- you can not turn off auto-zoom in your own program,
- the relative high cost of a solution for micro-business.

In general, I assess the solution as quite niche, but striking the right target. Companies like ours, where up to 100 people work, and office personnel up to 30 people, are probably the ideal target audience for such devices. The camera at the time of writing was 88200r, one column 13500r. A similar solution Cicso flies for 200k + and the search for a specially trained person, well, or to understand it yourself. There is something similar with Logitec - but there is a mechanical camera like in the movie about the Wally robot - I thought - there is a risk of curling her head during our frequent movements between cabinets.

On my own I would like to wish the manufacturers of this Panacast - to build in the battery for at least 1.5 hours to completely get rid of a bunch of wires and not depend on a laptop, and that would be a complete bomb!

ps it is impossible without cats