3rd party control of products using media control protocols

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Media Control Systems
3rd party control of Sennheiser products using media control protocols
Introduction
This document gives an overview of Sennheiser‘s media control protocols and the supported
products.
We will present some application examples to get a better understanding of how the different
Sennheiser products can interact with 3rd party media control systems in certain scenarios.
Application examples
The following examples will show some common situations in which a media control system can be
useful.
Controlling a conference camera with TeamConnect Ceiling 2
TeamConnect Ceiling 2 (TCC2) provides the status information of the horizontal and vertical angles
of the beamforming via the SSC protocol. This information can be used for camera control.
This means that a camera controller can use that information to recall programmed positions of a
videoconferencing camera.
The angle information of the TCC2 is related to the center of the audio beam. The beam itself has
an opening angle of 30° (average, depending on the frequency) . This relates to a pick-up spot of
approximately 2 m in diameter (= 1 m radius) on a distance of 4 m to the center of the microphone.
How to use the angle information: depending on the distance of the person speaking, the integrator
needs to define a value range of horizontal and vertical angles for every participant position in the
room which needs to be picked up. This needs to be set to a dedicated camera preset position.
Sennheiser just provides the status data of the beam. The configuration of the camera control
needs to be done by an integrator.
Audio, media and camera control
Conference camera Touch panel
TeamConnect Ceiling 2