Walkie-talkies

[seanandkate]

Depending on your venue and distances, have you looked at Eartech? I have a ClearCom / Production Intercom for my blackbox theatre, but for "bring-your-own-venue" stuff I have a four headset Eartech system that has treated me pretty well. Wireless solutions still give me the heebee jeebees and my blood pressure is more consistent with the wired system, but in the budget constrained high school community, this system is gaining a fair bit of traction. Once you get your wired system operating again, you can also by a component to add the wireless headsets to your wired system.

 

[turtle7896]

Depending on your venue and distances, have you looked at Eartech? I have a ClearCom / Production Intercom for my blackbox theatre, but for "bring-your-own-venue" stuff I have a four headset Eartech system that has treated me pretty well. Wireless solutions still give me the heebee jeebees and my blood pressure is more consistent with the wired system, but in the budget constrained high school community, this system is gaining a fair bit of traction. Once you get your wired system operating again, you can also by a component to add the wireless headsets to your wired system.

Sorry for the long delay. Thanks for the ideas. We just pulled some new wiring up through the ceiling so everything will be operational soon.

 

[CPACCPAC]

Have been researching IP intercom options and came across this thread. The Mumble option is interesting, maybe not at 500ms. This project has some interesting/related info: https://25ms.org/2020/05/25/raspberry-pi-4-latency-tests-using-mumble/
Their tests come in at ~100-200ms round trip, so I wonder how much of your 500ms is the Logitech DECT link? (The "25ms project" site seems to have solid info towards remote music collaboration tools/technology borne out of the pandemic.)

On the other end of the spectrum we're looking at the Riedel Bolero system as an upgrade/replacement from an older RTS UHF system. We only "need" a few wireless packs, mostly TD, ATD, and an odd student or two. So I am willing to hopefully spend more for BIFL quality gear. Also looking at Green-Go.

On the Raspberry Pi front, I recommend checking out https://dicaffeine.com/ as a free tool for turning a Pi into a NDI video encoder/decoder. It seems to do better at encoding than decoding, but impressive results from a Pi/Logitech c9xx webcam.

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[jtweigandt]

Have been researching IP intercom options and came across this thread. The Mumble option is interesting, maybe not at 500ms. This project has some interesting/related info: https://25ms.org/2020/05/25/raspberry-pi-4-latency-tests-using-mumble/
Their tests come in at ~100-200ms round trip, so I wonder how much of your 500ms is the Logitech DECT link? (The "25ms project" site seems to have solid info towards remote music collaboration tools/technology borne out of the pandemic.)

On the other end of the spectrum we're looking at the Riedel Bolero system as an upgrade/replacement from an older RTS UHF system. We only "need" a few wireless packs, mostly TD, ATD, and an odd student or two. So I am willing to hopefully spend more for BIFL quality gear. Also looking at Green-Go.

On the Raspberry Pi front, I recommend checking out https://dicaffeine.com/ as a free tool for turning a Pi into a NDI video encoder/decoder. It seems to do better at encoding than decoding, but impressive results from a Pi/Logitech c9xx webcam.

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Our latency seems to be about the same.. DECT, USB headset, or cell phone app. So probably a limitation of the pi3 itself processing speed. But again.. the 1/2 second for us is absolutely trivial.. The system works, and we like the price. I still like the pi 3 because it just sits there headless, always on.. ready to go, and takes up no space to speak of in the booth. My favorite headset comfort and sound quality wise is still the H800 logitech with dedicated bluetooth dongle.. just cant roam very far with that. I have used motioneyeos to monitor multiple cameras in my biz.. and the pi is pretty impressive there as an NVR.. Motioneye can also stream via a web address.. but it's only http by default, so your browser might throw a warning. Facebook didn't like it when I linked to my bird feeder cam..