Room Display and Settings

Once the MAX Connect is powered up, a Welcome Screen will appear on the connected conference room screen.

• Note: The Screen's contents vary based on the MAX Connect's Room settings as well as added graphics elements such as branding and background images.

Ready for Meetings

Once the Welcome Screen is visible, the meeting room is ready for users to join the current, automatically generated session. Please see the User Apps sections of this help system for how end-users can connect their devices to a meeting session.

For using the meeting display screen, see the following topics in this section:

• How to Control the Display
• Welcome Screen Contents
• Room Settings
• Camera Settings

How to Control the Display

The room display and its meeting settings can be controlled by three means:

1. The Bluetooth hand-held remote control that comes paired with the MAX Connect.
2. Touching the meeting room display, if it is a touch-enabled monitor.
3. A tablet running the MAX Moderator App that has been paired to the room's MAX Connect.

The Welcome Screen Contents 

Note: The network connection settings and the display elements such as the background image, weather location, date, and time are configured using the MAX Connect's onboard Administration Console. The exception is the auto-generated Session ID.

1. Room Name

2. Session ID

• The Session ID is initially auto-generated by the MAX Connect upon power-up.
• A new session may be generated, closing the old one, by using the display's controls under Room Settings.

3. Internal Panel

• IP Address for the LAN connection
• QR Code for connecting with MAX Connect user apps
• AirPlay® and Google Cast™ options

AirPlay is a registered trademark of Apple Inc. Google Cast is a trademark of Google LLC. 

4. Guest Panel

• WiFi network name
• Password for the WiFi connection
• IP Address for the WiFi connection
• QR Code for connecting via WiFi with MAX Connect user apps
• AirPlay and Google Cast options

5. b.Menu Button

The settings can be accessed by

• Pushing the physical b. menu button on the hand-held remote control
• Tapping the b. menu button on the screen if it is a touch-enabled display
• Tapping the Settings cog button on a connected MAX 8 Touch control panel

Info Bar

During presentations when participants are sharing content, an expandable Info Bar will be available at the bottom of the display screen. The bar shows session connection information such as the session ID, room IP address, and any WiFi information.

Content Sharing Controls

Select the b.menu button on the display screen or hand-held remote to access the display screen's Content Sharing controls.

• See the MAX Moderator app section of this help system for how to access the room settings using a paired tablet.

1. Content Sharing toggle:
   • When toggled to Auto-share, content shared by all meeting participants is automatically displayed on the room's screen.
   • When set to Moderated, the host selects which shared content is displayed.

2. Camera settings button: The hand-held camera button with a disc brings up the settings window for the room camera. This includes toggling between auto-frame focus and static camera views.

3. Camera button: The video camera button icon without a disc toggles the room's camera on and off. 

4. Microphone button: The microphone icon button mutes and unmutes the room's microphone.

5. Volume button: Selecting the speaker button brings up a volume level slider for the room speaker.

6. Participants button: Pressing the people icon button displays a list of current participants. The MAX Connect supports a maximum of 30 participants.

7. Reset Session button:  The cycle icon button ends the current session and starts a new one.

   • This disconnects all current users. Anyone wishing to rejoin must enter the new session ID.

8. Room "i" Information button: 

   • MAX Connect firmware version 

   • The MAX Connect serial number

   • Ethernet IP address 

   • Wireless IP address 

   • URLs here relate to the Administration Console and can be accessed via Ethernet connection or the MAX Connect's access point.

Camera Settings

Tap the camera icon on the right side of the Commands and Settings ribbon at the bottom of the screen.

The available Camera settings are:

• Auto frame: Toggle the dynamic Auto frame on or off.
  • Auto Frame enables the auto-focus and tracking of the participant who is currently speaking in the room.
  • When enabled, Auto-frame overrides the static Preset views.
• Presets: Set or select a static preset camera view of the conference room space.

Selecting or editing the Preset views

A connected room camera can either dynamically focus on speakers during a meeting or can be set to one of four static views. Views can be set useing a touch-enabled display (if installed in the room) or the hand-held remote. 

Select a static view by

• Touch screen - b. button, then navigate to the Camera settings button.
• Hand Held remote - Press the Presets buttons ( 1- 3) to bring up a view, or press the b. button and then select the Camera settings button. 

Edit and save a Preset view

• Touch screen 
  • Tap and hold the Preset thumbnail on a touchscreen until the view appears on the Camera Screen.
  • Adjust the view on the camera screen using the arrow and zoom controls that appear. 
  • Save the adjusted view as a Preset by touching and holding one of the Preset thumbnails.
• Hand-held remote
  • Tap the .b button on the remote.
  • Use the arrow keypad to navigate to the Camera settings.
  • Once on the Camera settings screen, use the arrow keypad and zoom in / zoom out rocker to adjust the view.
  • Press and hold one of the Preset buttons to save the view on the Camera screen as the new Preset.