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Skype Room Systems v2 - first impressions
Jonas;
We ran into a lot of the same issues; since the client is so bare-bones, there's no means to pick in/out devices, and we'd have issues where the SRS decided to randomly re-default to another device for audio/video, so we wound up disabling all speaker/video devices in Device Manager except our Logitech PTZ for video and Trio USB for audio. So far, so good.
I've had a few requests from users for a bottom-based gallery view as well, instead of just on the side; getting that extra horizontal resolution matters when sharing spreadsheets.
All in all, extremely happy with SRSv2, and the users seem to love it so far, just some light bugs that could easily be worked out in an app update.
JonasBack I've tossed it around, but most of our rooms are already set up with a large single screen, or a projector, so it wouldn't be feasible yet. Rumblings I've seen didn't have those 2nd HDMI outs enabled until updates around 2Q; I'm hoping to get a spare internally for testing/demo to get people excited about that setup, it's a hard sell to management when I'm just waving my hands around a room trying to explain how it'd work.
David Tse (SKYPE)Microsoft
We are working on supporting a second Front of Room display. Not in next update, but soon.
Tanks for letting us know. How would it be if we would connect to external displays today with the current version, duplicate (same content on both)?
- David Tse (SKYPE)
Since we don't support 3 screen mode yet, I can't make any commitments on how build 1.0.8.0 will respond with 3 screens.
Its just a standard 3'rd monitor port. If you can configure Windows to extend monitor 1 to monitor 2 AND clone monitor 2 to monitor 3, I would expect the Front of Room screen to be duplicated. This isn't a feature claim, just a guess on what would happen.