Zoom, Skype Technical Q&A here:

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

Sorry Hugh, the 'virtual background' does not work on any Android phones (yet...).

 

Old Tone (Downunder)

 

 

 

 

[Hugh O'D]

1 minute ago, Maʹher-shalʹal-hash-baz said:

Sorry Hugh, the 'virtual background' does not work on any Android phones (yet...).

 

Old Tone (Downunder)

 

 

 

 

The irony, I got the "droid I was looking for... but it didn't work.

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

Suggested by some...

Old Tone (Downunder)
 

Edited March 27, 2020 by Maʹher-shalʹal-hash-baz
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[Hugh O'D]

15 minutes ago, Maʹher-shalʹal-hash-baz said:

Suggested by some...

Not enough tape..

[Hotteok]

Is there a point in speaking through a high quality microphone when you have a meeting with brothers?
Does the zoom app somehow change the quality of the voice so you don’t have any control?

[The Outcast]

7 hours ago, Tryin'SoHardToBeSpiritual said:

Is there a point in speaking through a high quality microphone when you have a meeting with brothers?
Does the zoom app somehow change the quality of the voice so you don’t have any control?

1. no

2. no

I bought a cheap HD102 Webcam (11 €) with  microphone (Win 10 Desktop).

My line is slow and i had no problems. Had 3 parts and played music and video.

All worked great.

 

 

Try it.

You can be host and attende at the same time.

Use Zoom free version on a Desktop and tie in with a mobile.

 

Edited March 27, 2020 by The German

[bohemian]

Our host set up a poll on zoom and we responded with our attendance.

[Hotteok]

5 hours ago, The German said:

1. no

2. no

 

 

So I think the answer is the better the camera and the mic, the better the sound and visuals the other parties will be receiving.. 

[AH173]

On 3/18/2020 at 7:31 AM, Hugh O'D said:

Just got call from an Elder asking me to set up Zoom for my group

Me too. I've been assigned to be the A/v s brother to assist. The meeting is tomorrow and Monday.

 

I'm glad of this topic and the instructions I received.

 

[AH173]

It's so cool ,we are zooming now!

[AH173]

21 minutes ago, AH173 said:

It's so cool ,we are zooming now!

83 participants, with about 110 individuals

Edited March 28, 2020 by AH173
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[jpl]

Yesterday

72 connections , with about 100 members

[timerone]

Hi, if you are a licensed user maybe you have ROOMS active for 1 months free

You could open a Room in your meeting where you can test mic and video of some Brothers without stay alltogheter 

 

 

[jwhess]

Today we had 58 connections (participants) on our weekend Zoom Meeting.  We had an attendance of 90.  We only have 81 publishers.  It was great.

[New World]

Today was our first Zoom meeting. 104 in attendance with 64 connections. I was privileged to be in the audio/video dept. Great to see all the friends again. 

[Qapla]

Today was our first Zoom meeting as well. Local Brother gave the PT from his home - did an excellent job.

 

WT had a few funny moments (can you hear me now?) but ended close to on time and covered the lesson well.

 

Most of the Congregation was on Zoom with some watching on the KHConf app on their ROKU

[WilliamChew]

Has anyone monitored the mobile data usage on a zoom meeting?

 

I tried playing a video on my personal zoom host and sharing the CA talk.

 

The data usage on my mobile phone was around 80kB/sec. which worked out to about 300MB/hour or about 0.3GB/hour

 

I'm using the OPPO R15 phone which allowed data usage to be shown on the android status bar.

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

Some did a calculation, and it was thought to be around 1GB per hour.

I have since found there is a statistics tab in the Zoom settings. I hope this week to monitor these settings and make a guesstimate.

I do think that Zoom may also vary the data used based on bandwidth and camera resolution setting.

In settings there is also a 2nd screen option and also a camera HD option. I expect this would increase data usage.

 

 

Old (Downunder) Tone

 

 

 

 

[SUNRAY]

16 hours ago, Qapla said:

 

Most of the Congregation was on Zoom with some watching on the KHConf app on their ROKU

John, If I watch using KHConf, I am just watching..no interaction right? If ones are commenting because they are using Zoom, can I hear their comments? 

[Qapla]

Elizabeth,

 

That is correct. You are only watching and cannot participate. Whatever is happening on ZOOM is being streamed to KHConf so you will see the meeting in whatever way your Congregation is using (gallery view, speaker view, shared screen - these are Zoom features) and you will be able to hear all the meeting, comments included. If you are watching on the ROKU app, you will see the same thing those on ZOOM see. If you are "listening" on the KHConf app, the same one used for meeting tie-in before we used ZOOM, you will be able to hear the meeting.

 

Of course, this is the case as long as your Congregation is tying ZOOM and KHC together - if they have not tied them together .... 

 

You should have a "token" for KHC from your Congregation if they are using ROKU and KHC .... if you do not have one (or don't know what I am talking about) ask your Elders.

 

 

Might also add, if someone in the same house is connected by ZOOM and you are watching by on KHC - they will not be at the same spot in the meeting. KHC tends to lag a little behind the ZOOM connection since it has to be streamed to KHC and then streamed to you.

Edited March 30, 2020 by Qapla

[Tortuga]

I had a technical issue tonight during the meeting that I need help with.

 

I have been Zooming the meetings on my older laptop and I have a 10ft HDMI cable to hook the laptop to our TV. We are using the TV sound and everything has worked great for a couple of meetings. Tonight when the AV brother played the song videos the audio was dragging behind the video. The audio was very distorted and a few times the video would speed up then slow down. I contacted the AV brother and he said that no one else was having an issue. I tried to switch the audio from my TV back to the computer audio and the Zoom app locked up and closed the meeting.

 

Has anyone else had the same issue?

[Old]

32 minutes ago, Bro Richard said:

I had a technical issue tonight during the meeting that I need help with.

 

I have been Zooming the meetings on my older laptop and I have a 10ft HDMI cable to hook the laptop to our TV. We are using the TV sound and everything has worked great for a couple of meetings. Tonight when the AV brother played the song videos the audio was dragging behind the video. The audio was very distorted and a few times the video would speed up then slow down. I contacted the AV brother and he said that no one else was having an issue. I tried to switch the audio from my TV back to the computer audio and the Zoom app locked up and closed the meeting.

 

Has anyone else had the same issue?

It is a sign of the last days.

[Tortuga]

2 minutes ago, Old said:

It is a sign of the last days.

Boomers, Zoomers and Doomers....

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

Has anyone else had the same issue?

Not me. Maybe the graphics card was pushed beyond its limits.

Old (Downunder) Tone

[ray]

Has anyone here made use of Zoom breakout rooms to host specific meeting parts for language groups? Just seeing if anyone can help.