Video Conferencing
There is video conferencing equipment in 2 rooms in the engineering building 69. These are available to anyone in CEFNS . Bookings can be made by contacting the engineering building front desk 3-5251/2 or emailing: egrreception@nau.edu
We use Polycom room cameras that can be accessed by any H.323 client, including Ekiga (http://ekiga.org/) for Windows and Linux or XMeeting (http://xmeeting.sourceforge.net/pages/xmeeting.php) for Mac.
Rooms 101 and 322J are set up similarly. The silver remote control is for the television. If the LCD on the remote shows anything other than "TV" as selected, press the "Mode" button to select "TV." The power button on this remote will now turn on the television. If not, it is possible someone turned off the main switch. This is a push button located underneath the television towards the left side. Please use the remote to turn the TV on and off, do not use this main switch.
The TV needs to be set to the "Video1" input. Use the "Input" button on the remote to select this input. If there is no video, press the "Home" button on the black remote to wake the camera.
To call a remote location, use the black remote to enter the address on the screen and press the green "Call" button.
To receive a call, an "Incoming Call" message will appear on the screen. Use the arrow buttons on the black remote to select "Yes" and press the center button. Multiple calling parties will result in a split-screen effect.
Remote parties can call the video conferencing systems by connecting to one of the following two addresses:
EGR Room 101: conf-69-101.egr.nau.edu
EGR Room 322J: conf-69-322j.egr.nau.edu
In a call, you can control the camera with the arrow buttons on the black remote. Use the buttons with magnifying glass symbols on them to zoom in and out. By default, the remote location will be full-screen and the local location will be presented in a small window, so you will always be able to tell what the remote party is seeing.
Depending on the remote hardware, the "Near" and "Far" buttons can be used to control the remote camera. Pressing "Near" controls your camera, pressing "Far" controls the remote camera.
To end a call, press the red "Hang Up" button.
When finished using the conference room, please turn the TV off with the silver remote and close the door. The video camera will stay on.
Both rooms can also be used for presentations from a laptop. The TV can act as a second monitor. For this, change the input to "RGB_PC" using the Input button on the silver remote. Room 101 has a VGA cable on the conference table. Room 322J has the VGA cable on the small table. The VGA cables have audio connections that can be plugged into the headphone jack on a laptop. Once plugged in, most laptops require that the external VGA port be activated (Fn-F8 on Dell laptops - other manufacturers use different methods). The TV can support up to 1024x768 resolutions - you may need to adjust the resolution on your laptop to match this.
