Thanks!! The vendor's own videos and content do not give anywhere near this much clarity on the devices which is making our meeting room kit out project much trickier! This has helped a lot thanks!
@@karthiksivasiva no. We made the decision to stick only to the Windows-based kit, because we were more confident we could manage them at scale with existing skills and tools.
Great Video! If I wanna get one of those, just set it to BYOD mode and have it to stay there to carry around in my car with a tripod, is that possible and hassle-free? Thanks!
Hi does this allow for the 3cx soft phone app to be added with it being an android tablet ? Does the tablet have access to the play store to install the 3cx app? Thank you
No it doesn't. These devices are a closed ecosystem of specific platforms. If you want to use the solution with 3CX calls you need to connect a USB cable to your laptop to enter byod mode and run the call from your laptop
Hello great video, i need help i need this but i dont know if the wired and wireless adaptors are necessary for this to be 100% usefull, i understand that the system itself is for joining and creating video and voice only meetings, but if i want to share directly from the tablet i need the adaptors right? But what if i have the system and a extra laptop, in this laptop i create a meeting and share a presentation to the screen via microsoft teams, can i still use the video and audio features from the tablet but presenting from a diferent account? i dont undestand why its not enabled native thank you
Thanks for watching. You don’t need wired or wireless sharing using the adapters. Totally optional. You can just attend Teams meetings with audio and video and view other attendees content they share. If you do want to share your laptop screen you have options 1. You could just join the same meeting from your laptop with your audio and camera disabled and just present that way. This would work on laptop, mobile and tablet client 2. Use the wireless adapter WPP20 to share your screen into the meeting wirelessly 3. Use the VCH51 for wired sharing into the meeting
Nice review mate, I have set this unit up in a meeting room but I am trying to determine how to share just my screen/content using the HDMI cable once the unit joins the team meeting. The "Present Content" button does not display.
I ended up buying the A30 with the ctp touch panel and everything has worked out. However, I tried pairing the VCM36 and haven't had any success. Would you happen to possibly know anything on why this would not pair. I haven't found much online.
Hello, really great review. I have a similiar setup but the touch pannel wont find the Yealink bar, can you please confirm if the Touch pannel needs to be connected directly to the internet port or just using the POE box that comes with it
@@UCStatus done this I believe the issue might be with the type of licence I used a generic E3 license and from what I’ve read so far I think the android device requires a room type of license was this the type of license you used to set yours up ? Thanks again for your response wasn’t expecting a reply :)
I wouldn’t use an E3 in a room. Because you don’t need Office. It will work though. As will an E1 or F3 Microsoft Teams Room Standard license is what I’d recommend. It includes Teams, Exchange for the room mailbox, Azure AD Premium P1 for conditional access, and Intune for device management
Excellent review and explanation. Yealink should be paying you a retainer! do the sound output and mic performance compare to the A20? also can you connect the cpw90 mics to it? thanks
I am looking into teams meeting room devices and getting very confused. This video definitely gave me the best knowledge. I wanted to ask for a suggestion if I want to set up my conference room would you recommend A30 or MVC 400? Or any other brand. Our needs are mostly teams meeting and content sharing.
The camera and audio you use from Yealink will depend on the room size and characteristics. AV soundbar are really for smaller rooms of less than 6m in length. Also if you’re comparing an A30 and MVC400. One is Android and the other is Windows. Similar experience but still differences. The UVC40 and A20 are the same soundbar. Same camera, mics and speaker. A30 is basically an A20 with an additional speaker and an optical PTZ camera. So better in slightly bigger rooms. But audio is limited to 4.5m from all of them without adding extension or expansion mics. Again. Lots to consider. For Bigger rooms you need to go for MVC640 or 840
We've just tested the Neat Bar, a competitor to the A30. We liked it, but the mics/software do a lousy job of isolating voice from background noise. We have an AC vent in the room that is not particularly noisy, but it's really loud due to the oversensitivity of the mics. I realize it's a balance of a mic that will pick up everyone in a room and software that has to remove background noise. Wondering how the A30 does with this? Sounds like the mic is really sensitive, which makes me worry. Did you test this at all? We've just ordered one to test, but would love to know if you have experience.
This bar looks just like the Meetingeye 400. Is it the same somehow? Both run Android too. I can't tell what the hardware difference is. Furthermore, what is that HP screen you are using?
Do you have to have a screen/monitor for this to work, or can you join meetings just from the A30 without ever having to connect the bar or A30 to a screen?
@@UCStatus Our use case is a conference room where the company meets, and the current solution is to just have them join a teams meeting and have them call into a conference line, so that they can hear everyone and be heard and they can see what is being presented in teams. This A30 would allow us to add a webcam of the rooms occupants and replace the need for a 3rd party conference call.
Not yet. But direct guest join is on the roadmap for MTR on Android. For now, if you add the VCH51 you can use BYOD mode and join any meeting on a connected laptop.
I wish I'd found this video last week. It would have saved me liking like a fool!
Better late than never
Thanks!! The vendor's own videos and content do not give anywhere near this much clarity on the devices which is making our meeting room kit out project much trickier! This has helped a lot thanks!
Happy it’s been useful to you
Did you go with this unit? Would you recommend it?
@@karthiksivasiva no. We made the decision to stick only to the Windows-based kit, because we were more confident we could manage them at scale with existing skills and tools.
Please create a video on how to set up , I am stuck and show us the wiring
Great Video!
If I wanna get one of those, just set it to BYOD mode and have it to stay there to carry around in my car with a tripod, is that possible and hassle-free?
Thanks!
Definitely a bit much for a car. Needs mains power and internet. And it doesn’t work as a byod only device as far as I know
Hi does this allow for the 3cx soft phone app to be added with it being an android tablet ? Does the tablet have access to the play store to install the 3cx app? Thank you
No it doesn't. These devices are a closed ecosystem of specific platforms.
If you want to use the solution with 3CX calls you need to connect a USB cable to your laptop to enter byod mode and run the call from your laptop
@UCStatus thank you
Hello great video, i need help i need this but i dont know if the wired and wireless adaptors are necessary for this to be 100% usefull, i understand that the system itself is for joining and creating video and voice only meetings, but if i want to share directly from the tablet i need the adaptors right? But what if i have the system and a extra laptop, in this laptop i create a meeting and share a presentation to the screen via microsoft teams, can i still use the video and audio features from the tablet but presenting from a diferent account? i dont undestand why its not enabled native thank you
Thanks for watching.
You don’t need wired or wireless sharing using the adapters. Totally optional.
You can just attend Teams meetings with audio and video and view other attendees content they share.
If you do want to share your laptop screen you have options
1. You could just join the same meeting from your laptop with your audio and camera disabled and just present that way. This would work on laptop, mobile and tablet client
2. Use the wireless adapter WPP20 to share your screen into the meeting wirelessly
3. Use the VCH51 for wired sharing into the meeting
@@UCStatus Awsome! that is exactly what i needed to know before getting one, thank you for your video and fast response, new suscriber thank you!
Nice review mate, I have set this unit up in a meeting room but I am trying to determine how to share just my screen/content using the HDMI cable once the unit joins the team meeting. The "Present Content" button does not display.
You need the VCH51 and the latest update and I think you need to enable hybrid mode in settings
@@UCStatus Wait, so the WPP20 doesn't sync with the A30 and you can't use it to display content? I'm confused
WPP20 does work for wireless content ingest on A20 and A30. VCH51 does two things. Wired content ingest. And BYOD
Nice review, very well explained! 👏🏻 wondering if the wireless dongle for content sharing is now supported for A30?
Wpp20 and wpp30 works for A20, A30 and the wpp20 works on the MVC range
@@UCStatus thank you 🙏🏻
I ended up buying the A30 with the ctp touch panel and everything has worked out. However, I tried pairing the VCM36 and haven't had any success. Would you happen to possibly know anything on why this would not pair. I haven't found much online.
I've never had one to try pairing it. But my understanding is you just plug it in the side usb-3 port and wait several seconds to pair it
Hello, really great review. I have a similiar setup but the touch pannel wont find the Yealink bar, can you please confirm if the Touch pannel needs to be connected directly to the internet port or just using the POE box that comes with it
The touch console pairs over the network. Both the touch console and Bar should be logged in with the same account
@@UCStatus done this I believe the issue might be with the type of licence I used a generic E3 license and from what I’ve read so far I think the android device requires a room type of license was this the type of license you used to set yours up ? Thanks again for your response wasn’t expecting a reply :)
I wouldn’t use an E3 in a room. Because you don’t need Office. It will work though. As will an E1 or F3
Microsoft Teams Room Standard license is what I’d recommend. It includes Teams, Exchange for the room mailbox, Azure AD Premium P1 for conditional access, and Intune for device management
Excellent review and explanation. Yealink should be paying you a retainer! do the sound output and mic performance compare to the A20? also can you connect the cpw90 mics to it?
thanks
Yes with a dd10. Or use the new vcm36-w
@@UCStatus many thanks. So glad you’re here. My one big criticism of Yealink would be the almost non existent customer service
I am looking into teams meeting room devices and getting very confused. This video definitely gave me the best knowledge. I wanted to ask for a suggestion if I want to set up my conference room would you recommend A30 or MVC 400? Or any other brand. Our needs are mostly teams meeting and content sharing.
The camera and audio you use from Yealink will depend on the room size and characteristics. AV soundbar are really for smaller rooms of less than 6m in length.
Also if you’re comparing an A30 and MVC400. One is Android and the other is Windows. Similar experience but still differences.
The UVC40 and A20 are the same soundbar. Same camera, mics and speaker. A30 is basically an A20 with an additional speaker and an optical PTZ camera. So better in slightly bigger rooms. But audio is limited to 4.5m from all of them without adding extension or expansion mics.
Again. Lots to consider.
For Bigger rooms you need to go for MVC640 or 840
We've just tested the Neat Bar, a competitor to the A30. We liked it, but the mics/software do a lousy job of isolating voice from background noise. We have an AC vent in the room that is not particularly noisy, but it's really loud due to the oversensitivity of the mics. I realize it's a balance of a mic that will pick up everyone in a room and software that has to remove background noise. Wondering how the A30 does with this? Sounds like the mic is really sensitive, which makes me worry. Did you test this at all? We've just ordered one to test, but would love to know if you have experience.
It has some clever tech in it that helps isolate speech from other noises. I find it does a pretty good job
any integration to use it with a CP-960 and the wirelss mics if we already have that in the room? --thanks
CP960 can be used in USB mode with MTR-W but there are better experiences to be had.
This bar looks just like the Meetingeye 400. Is it the same somehow? Both run Android too. I can't tell what the hardware difference is. Furthermore, what is that HP screen you are using?
It’s the same hardware. Just a software change basically.
The HP screen is my old PC monitor. Nothing fancy or special
Do you have to have a screen/monitor for this to work, or can you join meetings just from the A30 without ever having to connect the bar or A30 to a screen?
I guess technically you don’t need to plug in a display. But how are you going to see who you’re meeting with?
@@UCStatus Our use case is a conference room where the company meets, and the current solution is to just have them join a teams meeting and have them call into a conference line, so that they can hear everyone and be heard and they can see what is being presented in teams.
This A30 would allow us to add a webcam of the rooms occupants and replace the need for a 3rd party conference call.
Hi, thanks for the review. Does this solution have webex plugin compatibility?
Not yet. But direct guest join is on the roadmap for MTR on Android. For now, if you add the VCH51 you can use BYOD mode and join any meeting on a connected laptop.
@@UCStatus thanks