I’m started a new position at Logitech, as Solution Engineer. In my role I need to present and “sell” the fantastic Logitech Video portfolio. In order to demonstrate the devices, I would need to be able to showcase each product from remote. As still a lot of customers like to work from remote.

…This is how it could/should look like when I’m done..well then I will just add more..

Hardware

Logitech Hardware

Item	Details
Rally Bar Mini	Rally Bar Mini Power supply AC power cord HDMI cable USB cable Remote control Lens caps for main lens and AI Viewfinder
Rally Bar	Rally Bar Power supply AC power cord HDMI cable USB cable Remote control Lens caps for main camera and AI Viewfinder
Ralley Plus	Rally Rally Camera Rally Display Hub Rally Table Hub Rally Speaker (x1) Rally Mic Pod (x1) Remote control USB Type C to USB Type C USB Type A to USB Type B CAT6A Ethernet cable HDMI Type A (x2) A/C cables (x2) Power Supplies (x2) Documentation Logitech Rally Plus Rally Camera Rally Display Hub Rally Table Hub Rally Speaker (x2) Rally Mic Pod (x2) Remote control USB Type C to USB Type C USB Type A to USB Type B CAT6A Ethernet cable HDMI Type A (x2) A/C cables (x2) Power Supplies (x2)
MeetUp	MeetUp ConferenceCam Remote control USB cable: 16 ft (5 m) Power supply Wall mount and hardware
Swytch	Swytch Hub Swytch Extender Swytch Connector with 4.9 ft / 1.5 m USB Cable 100-240v Swytch Hub Power Supply 100-240v Swytch Extender Power Supply 16.4ft/ 5 m USB 3.0 Cable 7.2 ft /2.2 m USB 3.0 Cable 6.5 ft / 2.0 m HDMI 2.0 Cable Mounting accessories
Scribe & Scribe Button	Camera Share Button Dongle Transceiver 100-240v Power Supply with International Adaptor Set 16.4 ft (5.0 m) Cat5e Cables x 2 Cable Clips x 2 Camera Installation Kit
Tap Cat5	Tap Touch Controller Cat5e Kit - Logitech Tap Receiver - Dongle Transceiver - 100-240v Power Supply with International Adaptor Set - 2.97 m Cat5e Cable - 7.0 m Cat5e Cable HDMI 1.4a cable 2.0 m VESA Mounting Screws (4) Microfiber Cloth
Tap IP - white	Tap IP Touch Controller
Room Mate	Logitech RoomMate Power supply AC cable Mounting plate Remote control
Tap Scheduler	Logitech Tap Scheduler Multi-surface mount (glass/drywall) Corner mount accessory Mullion mount Mounting hardware

Software

Bitfocus Companion App running on the Raspi4
Companion Satellite
OBS running on my main PC

Wiring

The idea behind the setup is the present the portfolio of Logitech to my customers, so I would need to be able to demonstrate the devices and capabilities. As I don’t have and don’t want to plater the wall with screens, I decided to use a HDMI Matrix and ATEM to mix all together.

Each Logitech Camera has two HDMI-out and a HDMI-in. This makes three signals to process. As I can share the content source for all cameras, I only need a HDMI-splitter function. Further I had troubles with the HDMI in on the ATEM, which seamed to loose the sync on reboot of the cameras. The ATEN (not ATEM) 8×8 Matrix works fine with the cameras, as it’s emulating EDID which fixes the sync issue (at least this is what I see/think).

On Port 1-7 I have each the two outputs of the cameras, and port 8 is the input of the PC for the desktop sharing.

From the ATEN to the ATEM, I’ve routed three cables, normally this would be screen 1, screen 2 and the content. Since I can control the Matrix and the ATEM from the StreamDeck, I can switch any camera output to screen.

ATEN 8x8 Matrix In	Out	Port	ATEM mini Extreme In	Out
Rally Bar Mini 1	ATEM - 3	1	SX-10 Wall	30" screen
Rally Bar Mini 2	ATEM - 4	2	SX-10 Desk	43" screen
Rally Bar 1	ATEM - 5	3	ATEN - 1	USB-C - PC
Rally Bar 2		4	ATEN - 2	USB-C - HDD
Rally (RoomMate) 1	Rally Bar Mini - content	5	ATEN - 3
Rally (RoomMate) 2	Rally Bar - content	6	AirDrop
MeetUp - RoomMate 1	Rally - content	7	Raspberry 1
PC-Content	RoomMate - content	8	Raspberry 2

Control

I use a Stream-Deck XL together with the companion app to control all the gear. I have about 8 Pages with buttons configured, but since I re-use many buttons over and over again, I have used some pages to park these, and only place references to the page in question. So when I change the source button, all others change automatically.

Also many colors change based on feedback of states, so this really makes is a lot more robust and flexible to design. I have by far not reached the end of my exploration in the Companion App, but I think I’m pretty good by now 😉

Here you see an example of the Matrix I’ve built in the Companion App:

On the button press action, I set the Matrix, and the feedback action is to change the background to the active color, red, if the input is enabled. This way I always see which input is active, regardless where I changed the Matrix.

Configuration

Raspberry Pi4

On the Rasbperry Pi4 I run the custom build from Bitfocus, this takes care of all the updates for the companion app.

Update Companion App to 2.2, which is needed for the SX10 integration

companion-update

The Raspi4 has two HDMI outputs, which I would like to use for different tasks,

One screen shall be used to play video content, especially together with the ATEM SouperSource feature, I can use this as animated background
Screen two shall be used for the top-town webcam. This way I can capture what’s on my desk, for example the Logitech-Tab

Configuration on the Raspi4:

mplayer playing on the 2nd screen in Full-HD, and rotated by 180°:

pi@raspi4:~ $ alias webcam="mplayer -fps 30 tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video1:width=1280:height=720 -xineramascreen 1 -fs -vf-add flip -vf-add mirror"

Start VLC automatically

alias vlclogi="vlc --fullscreen Raspi4/LogiBG_Colors.xspf"

nano /home/pi/.config/autostart/vlc.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=VLC
Exec=vlc --fullscreen Raspi4/LogiBG_Colors.xspf

nano /home/pi/.config/autostart/webcam.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=WEbCam
Exec=mplayer -fps 30 tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:width=1280:height=720 -xineramascreen 1 -fs -vf-add flip -vf-add mirror

Sty tuned.. more to come 🙂

hobbies & photography

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