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Clear-Com HelixNet fetures expanded
Pete Erskine:
--- Quote from: brian maddox on October 22, 2015, 12:48:48 PM ---It appears that the Helix system and the Eclipse system are converging in capabilities. How do you see these two systems interacting in the future? And is there a seamless way to connect these two systems together now via IP that you know of? I'm encountering Helix and FreeSpeak more and more on job sites and the ability to easily tie in my IP panels and/or agentIC panels to the onsite Helix systems using some kind of IP solution would be great. Currently i'm using analog 4-wire and/or 2-wire connections, which work, but it's not ideal.
Thanks.
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It is already begun integration. The IP card also transports control signals from Eclipse as well as the audio. Not sure what this does but in the HelixNet system, every beltpack is IP addressable so eventually each BP can be a 5 button panel like Freespeak II.
Freespeak II is totally integrated.
brian maddox:
--- Quote from: Pete Erskine on October 22, 2015, 01:16:25 PM ---It is already begun integration. The IP card also transports control signals from Eclipse as well as the audio. Not sure what this does but in the HelixNet system, every beltpack is IP addressable so eventually each BP can be a 5 button panel like Freespeak II.
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Which is kinda what i'm looking for. If i can attach via IP to a Helix frame and gain access to each belt pack as if it were a port on my Eclipse rack i'm pretty much golden. Or perhaps more ideally for my purposes would be for each Channel on the HelixNet to be accessible as it's own port so that i could tie into local party lines with my own. It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.
I knew that the FreeSpeak was already integrated, although as i understand it, it does require that the matrix frame be located at the same location as the FreeSpeak base station. Right now my Eclipse frame is located in a fixed location and i'm using V-series panels and IOS clients to access it via multiple remote show locations over IP. I have given some thought to creating a travel rack that would have an Eclipse rack with an Analog card [for local matrix panels] and maybe a FreeSpeak card that i could interface with a FreeSpeak station. Not cheap, but might be worth doing.
Pete Erskine:
--- Quote from: brian maddox on October 22, 2015, 04:53:20 PM ---Which is kinda what i'm looking for. If i can attach via IP to a Helix frame and gain access to each belt pack as if it were a port on my Eclipse rack i'm pretty much golden. Or perhaps more ideally for my purposes would be for each Channel on the HelixNet to be accessible as it's own port so that i could tie into local party lines with my own. It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.
I knew that the FreeSpeak was already integrated, although as i understand it, it does require that the matrix frame be located at the same location as the FreeSpeak base station. Right now my Eclipse frame is located in a fixed location and i'm using V-series panels and IOS clients to access it via multiple remote show locations over IP. I have given some thought to creating a travel rack that would have an Eclipse rack with an Analog card [for local matrix panels] and maybe a FreeSpeak card that i could interface with a FreeSpeak station. Not cheap, but might be worth doing.
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The freespeak eclipse cards replace the base station.
brian maddox:
--- Quote from: Pete Erskine on October 22, 2015, 06:41:11 PM ---
The freespeak eclipse cards replace the base station.
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Now that you say that, I remember reading that. Thanks for the reminder.
Chris Johnson [UK]:
--- Quote from: Pete Erskine on October 22, 2015, 06:41:11 PM ---
The freespeak eclipse cards replace the base station.
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Its worth saying too that an E-Que card (for FSII) is in fact the same exact hardware as an IVC-32 card, just with a different firmware, so I'd expect to see even more convergence here as the system is developed. Antennas over POE would be nice... I had some demo ones from CC once that had mysterious PoE ports...
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