Recent content by CrazyTechie

The one summer I worked for a theme park we ran the park BGM through Q-SYS. Tons of control for what plays where and when.

Fusion360 should work on your Mac, and has a free tier for personal use. It's made by Autodesk so it should have that "semi-familiar-feel" to it. It does have a slight learning curve to it, but hey, learning new things is always a fun adventure! It's really popular in the 3D printing community...

I didn't see this mentioned, but if you do switch to Ethernet, you'll need to plan for a different max cable run. Ethernet only allows for a maximum of about 300 feet over cat cable without using a switch or other magic to go further.So, you may need to include more switches to get data...

Another consideration may be straight up distance. I was looking at the code a month or so back to figure out if I could hang a projector in the same ceiling tile as a sprinkler head. Turns out, at least here anyway, there's about a 2' bubble that has to be maintained around sprinkler heads for...

You could try backing up the show files you care about to another device and do a deep clear. That should wipe out everything in there.If that doesn't work, call tech support. Back in college, I had a file or a folder get stuck similarly that I couldn't modify/delete. ETC ended up shipping a...

It's a different firmware version that they release for free that removes the need for a controller and licensing costs. Once you have an AP running on the Unleashed firmware you can log into the AP like you would a home router and manage SSIDs, DHCP, captive portals, and all the other wifi...

I'm assuming that by router you are referring to the all-in-one consumer wifi/switch/combo/thing-a-ma-jig. Go to your favorite electronics store and find one from a brand you've heard of within your budget. Linksys, Netgear, Asus are all big players in the consumer market. Don't worry too much...

All great suggestions and ideas to consider! Thank you, all!

I was wondering if the automatic volume control might be the cause of the noise... I'll have to play around with that and see. The audio itself from the built-in mics isn't half bad, it's just that buzz in the background.An external audio recorder may not be a bad idea either. I looked at a...

Hi all, at one of the school's I work at we're working on planning out ways to do a "virtual concert" for our performing arts classes. The plan is to record each class performing a song or two and then put it online for a period of time for parents to be able to watch.The thing I'm trying to...

As long as you are running Win 10 pro or higher you have access to local GPOs. If you run gpedit you can get to them.I'd still go with pausing updates and disconnecting from the internet for a Windows based system, if we're sticking with that. You do get more control over when Windows does...

Here's a link to their system requirements page. It's written very well to help you understand how each component affects what you're doing with QLab. https://qlab.app/docs/v4/general/system-recommendations/With Macs, I would also echo the advice of buying the best hardware that you can...

This should be fine as long as both switches support VLANs, which it sounds like they do, and you use the same VLAN numbers on all the switches. VLAN tagging is built into the ethernet frame structure so it's universal. You'll just have to get the hang of tagged vs untagged ports.So, if you...

This is why give the kids Chromebooks. ;) Except for one of my schools....I actually used the virtual camera from OBS when we first switched to distance learning to do a green screen background with Google Meet since it doesn't offer that like Zoom does.In any event, I think that's a...

I suppose I should have prefaced my last post with an "at most, this is how often they'll be outside."I like that idea as well, but unfortunately, their setup is across the faculty parking lot so cables would have to be draped through the cars and whatnot. We would have everything already for...