Which equipment for Skype (Zoom) rooms is better to choose?

Question

Skype

Hello colleagues.

I was given the task of equipping a small room of 2*3 meters with a web video conferencing system.
Approximately in the same way as interviews are held in large companies: Google, Microsoft, etc. You enter a small room: there is a TV with a video camera in front of you, Skype is turned on and the interview begins.

In principle, I found 2 solutions: these are Microsoft certified solutions and bicycles (collective farms).

1. Microsoft certified solutions. On the site, this is referred to as Microsoft Teams Rooms requirements .
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/ro...
Long. Expensive. Qualitatively.
We do not like this solution because of the budget.

2. Independently fence collective farms and bicycles. For example, I picked up this solution:

* TV box X96 Max 4 / 64GB. The price is about 5000 RUR.
* Webcam Logitech C920 HD PRO WEBCAM , or C922 . The price is about 10000 RUR.
* TV with HDMI port.

You hook this whole garden to the TV. You bring the Internet through the RG-45 wire. You rejoice in life.
There is of course a risk that it will not take off.

And what other iron solutions are there? Yes, so that it is not expensive?
Skype is of course a priority, but we don’t get hung up on it, for example, you can advise an example for the same ZOOM.

Answer 1

It all depends on the number of people who will connect at the same time.
Try from free https://jitsi.org/projects/ (there was even a tiny article on Habré recently)

Answer 2

Logitech MeetUP was put into the TOP management negotiation - it works super, but it's expensive.
For mere mortals, they put
HP8300 + Samsung 55 "+ logitech C270 + Snom C520. They
also took it for a test as a microphone, I liked this piece of iron - a decent microphone and sound, I liked it more than SNOM. It didn’t suit us, because the rooms are large (4x6 ), almost without furniture and as a result of ECHO. Also, snom closes the issue with the phone in the room.
www.grandstream.com/products/facility-management/i...

Answer 3

Logitech Groups, any nettop, monitor/TV.