Hello,

I am looking for a cheap solution to running a hybrid meeting with a 5 person board of directors and a small group of physically present participants, as well as remote participants. I am using an Anker PowerConf speakerphone for the Board and that works very well. I want a second microphone for the physically present members to use when they have questions for the Board. I have a cheap USB condenser microphone which also works well with Zoom but I can't use both at the same time because Zoom requires that I select either the speakerphone or the condenser mic to be my sole microphone. 

I have read about using multiple MXL USB microphones along with an audio interface but that is too expensive for our needs since we only will have these hybrid meetings once a year.

The speakerphone can be operated via bluetooth or USB cable. Thinking if I used the speakerphone via the cable, I could buy a powered USB hub with on/off switches for each port and could manually control which of my two audio inputs, i.e., speakerphone or condenser microphone, is the active one. I don't know if this can be part of my solution.

One manual solution which would require no additional purchases would be to use Zoom to select the speakerphone when a Board member is speaking and to select the condenser microphone when a participant in the room wants to speak. 

One more piece of information is that I am using a DSLR camera with a wide angle lens for my camera and a Bluetooth speaker so that everyone in the room can hear the remote participants.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance for reading this.

Larry

During a zoom meeting if I click the green share button “screen” is not in the menu. So how can I share my screen. I can’t use the web url choice because my calculator app doesn’t have a url. I used to be able to share the calc last semester.

Would an ipad user start a zoom meeting and see if “screen” is a choice on the green share button menu and let me know?