Re: meetecho slide control with local RPI

[Jon Geater <[e-mail]>]

It is unfortunately the nature of clickers that they need the focus on the app they’re driving. If you’re very quick you can clic on the queue/chat/whatever and then click back to the slide display screen before the presenter needs it 😉

I was one such chair with a paralysed laptop, and I thought it would be clever to sign into the lite client on my phone in order to follow the chat etc, but that signed me out of the main meeting! Would it be possible to allow dual sign-in for such purposes? I’m very happy to carry an extra phone or tablet but not keen on a whole spare laptop to cart around all week.

Jon

From: Rob Wilton (rwilton) <rwilton=[e-mail]>
Date: Monday, 11 November 2024 at 11:23
To: Kyle Rose <krose=[e-mail]>, Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>
Cc: Tools Team Discussion <[e-mail]>, WG Chairs <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: meetecho slide control with local RPI
I had the pleasure of chairing my first WG meeting along with another relatively inexperienced IETF chair.

We also found it frustrating that one of the chairs couldn’t do anything because of the clicker.  I.e., it is helpful if both chairs have the flexibility of checking discussion in the chat and also the meeting note taking as the meeting is progressing.

I know that at least one chair has suggested assigning a third chair or bringing a second laptop with them to just drive the slides, but apparently that still has the problem that you can’t be logged into the same meeting from two devices.

I’m hoping that we can come to a better solution.  Or otherwise, I’m somewhat curious if any experienced chairs have good alternative suggestions (beyond not being able to use one of the laptops during presentations).

Regards,
Rob


From: Kyle Rose <krose=[e-mail]>
Date: Thursday, 7 November 2024 at 18:28
To: Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>
Cc: Tools Team Discussion <[e-mail]>, WG Chairs <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: meetecho slide control with local RPI
I agree this would be great if they could get it to work. As things currently stand, one chair's device is effectively useless during talks because HID focus needs to remain on the Meetecho browser tab.

(In some rooms, the RPi is far from the speaker podium, though, and the range of the clicker is limited, so you'd have to put it at the end of a long USB cable.)

Kyle

On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, 6:21 PM Michael Richardson <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:

It would be fantastic if we could plug the slide clicker into the RPI that
drives everything, and it would just always control the slides.
(Even if control has been delegated actually.  That would let chairs do stuff
when the remote presenter is lost, or the network goes down)

Today, in ASDF, I forgot exactly how to find the USB attachment for the
clicker, and then I kept forgetting that I had to leave my laptop alone in
order to allow the clicker to work.
I kept trying to fix the meeting notes, consulted the agenda.
(I even forgot one speaker had two sets of slides and almost cut stuff off
early).  This is all mostly inexperience with being a local-host; because we
have had many all-virtual (interim) meetings for ASDF and CELLAR.

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Michael Richardson <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, Sandelman Software Works
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