Several people physically in same room each on own device

[FrancesHJ]

Hi there. I am unexpectedly unable to travel next week, and have to give a course remotely. In order to see the participants, is it possible for all 30 of them who will physically in the same room to join the meeting on their own devices via my Zoom link, and mute themselves as I will also be projected on big screen, or will this create audio feedback on the connections? I don't think the hotel conference room they will be in has a videoconference system that would enable me to see the room, and I am looking for a way that basically I have to teach while only really talking to myself and not being able to see the room at all. Thanks for any feedback you are able to give. 

[Bort]

Hi @FrancesHJ 

Yes, its possible for all the in-person attendees to be in the Zoom Meeting on the personal devices, but you are also correct that this can cause issues with audio. To avoid these issues, I'd recommend they each use headphones to isolate the audio coming out of the meeting, and only unmute themselves when they have something to say, otherwise everyone's mic will pick up their voice at the same time. 

Hope that helps and please make sure to mark the solution as accepted if this information is what you needed.

[Frank_TB]

Aside from the potential audio issue, I would be concerned about having that many people trying to connect to a local wifi access point using audio and video. Have you confirmed with your local IT staff that your network can deal with this amount of bandwidth?

Regards,

Frank

[clyon1]

Bort - Can we ask that some sort of feature be added that would allow multiple computers in the same room and Zoom automatically handles the cutover between devices as people talk.  One computer could be the main speaker as well.

[bradtem]

I've wanted this feature for years.    In most meeting rooms, everybody has a microphone right in front of them, and a camera too, but it's not practical to use them.  If two microphones are live in the same room, it's bad news.    So instead we try to do a fancy conference mic for the whole room which has inferior sound to the microphones that are right in front of each person.    So you describe the right approach -- have Zoom understand "These microphones are in the same room" and know to only feed sound from the one with the loudest volume to the remotes, and not to feed the sound from a microphone in the room to anybody else physically in the room.   In addition, to only send sound of the remotes in general out one speaker in the room, unless all are on headphones.

[dc_enforce_tx]

The other issue I'm having with this is that if some parties are in the room and others are not, then I hear everything spoken in the room twice with a time delay.  Ideally Zoom would allow you to "block speaker" for a specific participant in the room who you can already hear.

[SuperNovaSarah]

Did anyone find an exact answer/ solution to this? I would like to have two of my gadgets connected to the zoom in the same room, but it's creating a lot of feedback and I don't know how to get around it.