Sony cx405 question: Can you only power them with a battery bank? We’re going to use one for our booth camera and when I plug it into a usb brick it says it can only do playback when usb powered. If I use one of the batteres from the rig for power, it’s fine. Is there a way around this?
Mine work with usb bricks no problem. I would make sure it’s not any old brick. Find one with more juice.
Thanks. Your reply made me try out different things and I needed a brick with less juice. My 5a powered USB hub was causing the issue. A standard 2.1a brick seems to do the trick. Happy to find that Sony’s answer was incorrect.
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Also I believe it needs a battery in there and it needs to have a small amount of charge.
No physical battery needed. But definitely needs to be under power for a few second before turning on. None of mine have physical batteries.
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Anybody figure out how to direct capture a ColorDMD to HDMI? Didn’t see this specific solution and wondering if anyone has figured out how to do this.
Thanks in advance
I swear by the Accsoon transmitters. I have 6 of them now with two rigs and they are amazing.
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Question for the forum. We would like to have a wireless headset that we could use to walk around our club and be able to speak to the commentators. We’d like to call them our sideline reporter. We just bought a rode rodecaster 2.
Is there a way to set up a Bluetooth headset on the rodecaster 2? I know there might be latency issues.
I’ve messed around with this using some ear buds, a Bluetooth receiver plugged into the mixer and a wireless mic, but the latency stinks as I’m hearing my own voice on a delay on the ear buds. Haven’t messed with it in a while.
We use these for remote monitoring: U4 In-Ear Monitor Wireless System - Xvive Audio and RODE Wireless GOIIs (Wireless GO II and Wireless ME you can pair directly with the Rodecaster Pro 2) for the voice of the roamer. Latency is acceptable but if you start chasing your own voice just disable self monitoring on your channel with a custom mix.
You will look funny talking on the rig cameras and there will be an annoying echo if you speak into rig mics as well as your personal Rode. You can solve this by putting the Wireless GO on a MIC input at the rig and later extract that audio signal with an HDMI audio extractor that you feed into the Rodecaster. This require more wiring and gizmos of course.
Ever since @reclaimarcade dropped the Magewell Director Mini in this thread I contracted an itch I just had to scratch.
What if I could put a remotely controlled multiviewer in 2160p60 with NDI over an existing network?
Said and done I’ve been heads down building “RigC” (pronounced Rigsy) for OBS, lame name yes, but does what it says on the tin.
It allows broadcasters to control a multiviewer and a NDI encoder by assigning configuration profiles of said devices when a scene is switched in OBS. The Magewell NDI encoder I use allows fine grained controlled of encoding and I’ve integrated a throttle that dials in the quality depending on how much bandwidth is available. Since the rig is just part of an existing WiFi mesh there’s really no range problems, just place access points at your venue where convenient. You can also run RigC locally with just a multiviewer, serial cable and capture card (this is for my pocket rig and now also my primary home rig).
I’m elaborating a bit more in the background story of the project for the folks interested in learning more.
I’m recording some demos of RigC down the road to give a better idea how it practically works, but I need to get hours on it first to work out potential kinks before releasing a v1.0.0.
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The cineview HE is already overkill for the majority of streamers. For $650, about 4 times the cost of an adequate transmitter, what are you getting that the HE (or a $150 transmitter, for that matter) doesn’t already have?
I think the range and coverage is what people buy themselves with Accsoon. If you have LOS, a single monoprice and multiviewer is the best bang (and quality) for your buck.
The only reason I went with them was because of the large rooms we stream in for TPF and Space City Open. And I’ve had no issues since switching. But yes they are expensive. I’ve had great luck buying direct from China on EBay. Also used Amazon.
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Ypsipinball recommendations:
Timbootech/Aivbo These are solid trasmitters at a budget price ($150+$20 for a video capure card). We used these for dozens of tournaments in many different environments including houses with 2 floors and a barn at 150+ feet through a wall. We tested them at over 200 yards with line-of-sight. For most streams, you don’t need more than this.
Pros:
- clean powerup (turn on your powerbanks, these automatically turn on and OBS can see them with no fiddling). Quick recovery if you have a power glitch.
- low power consumption. One of our batteries powers them for 24 hours (or 2 can share a battery for 12 hours). Note: they come with 12v converters, but you can use an adapter and power them from a 5v battery.
Cons:
- may not be able to use more than 4 (on Timbootech’s advice, could only use two with the ‘sw’ setting and had to use the other two at the SP setting
Accssoon Cineview HE. This is currently the cream of the crop. We use these because we stream high-profile tourneys in unknown, and sometimes challenging, environments and want the peace of mind that having the best equipment brings. Spec’ed at 1200 ft, with dual band transmission, they are a premium product at a premium price ($470).
Pros:
- if you need more than 200 yards of transmission (note: these did not get any more distance through walls than the Timbootech’s but we were able to roll the rig over 300 yards with LOS without losing signal)
- dual band transmission with automatic frequency switching gives you redundancy and on-the-fly protection against interference
- LCD display gives clear information regarding what’s being transmitted
- UVC out means you don’t need seperate video capture cards.
- low latency. We don’t think latency is that important for a stream, but if it matters to you, the Accsoons have no discernable latency, where the Timbootechs have about 1/10 of a second.
Cons:
High power consumption. Our batteries can only power one of these for about 12 hours, and we need a dedicated battery (no sharing) for each one.
Other comments: We have used at least 5 different transmitters over the years. Even the cheapest stuff is only a few $ less than the Timbootech, and not worth the decrease in quality, in our opinion. Spec-wise, it doesn’t look like the upcoming CineView 2 SDI ($650) provides any real additional value except for 1500’ range.
I just bought a CineView HE set to replace my Monoprice Blackbird I was using for the 3rd transmitter. Needless to say, I’m pretty excited about it. FWIW, I paid $305 on Best Offer, so you may have some luck going a little lower. They didn’t counter offer or anything, just straight up accepted.
Also just learning the CineView HE has UVC out. That’s actually a huge cost savings because decent capture cards ain’t free.
Anyway, here’s some video of my stream last night with what I currently have. Constructive criticism is always welcome! If you only watch one game, watch the last one (697M!).
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My understanding is the HE UVC can only do 30FPS?
The vid above def looks like 30fps