Set up Camera and Microphone

Before entering the conference room

Before you enter an alfaview room, the Quick Setups menu are displayed. This allows you to make the most important settings for your audio equipment and camera.

Set up your camera

You can see a preview video of your selected camera in the quick setup menu. If you want to select a different camera, you can do so in the menu on the right of the video.

• Click on the drop-down menu with the camera icon and the name of the preselected camera.
• The drop-down menu will open. Select the camera you want to use. The preview video on the left will now show the video of your selected camera.

If you don’t want other participants to be able to see your background, you can blur your surroundings.

• Click on Camera effects in the menu on the right. You can now choose to what extent your surroundings are blurred.
• You can adjust the focus area within your video by moving the slider.
• You can also select the option to mirror your own video for yourself. The participants in the alfaview room will see your video unmirrored.

You can decide whether other participants can see your video or not before you join an alfaview room.

• Click on the camera icon above your preview video. A drop-down menu will open. You can choose one of three status options:

Set up your audio device

You can select your audio device from the menu to the right of the preview video. Click the communication device icon to open the drop-down list.

The drop-down list is divided into the tabs Communication devices, Microphone and Speaker. Here you can select your preferred audio device.

Communication devices

• In this tab, you can select the communication device to be used in the alfaview room.
• You can also activate the Echo cancellation and Noise cancellation.

Echo cancellation

If you are using a separate microphone and loudspeaker instead of a headset, we recommend that you enable Echo cancellation. This setting prevents audio being picked up from your speaker and retransmitted by your microphone.

Noise cancellation

Noise cancellation filters out unwanted background noise from microphone transmissions, improving your audio quality.

Microphone and Speaker

If you want to use a separate microphone and speaker instead of a communication device, select the devices in the Microphone and Speaker tabs. To test the functionality of your speakers, click Test Speaker.

If you are using a separate microphone, we recommend that you enable Noise cancellation and Echo cancellation. This will minimize background noise.

Activate microphone before entering an alfaview room

You can decide whether you want to enter the alfaview room with the microphone on or not.

• To do this, click the microphone icon above the preview video.
• If the button is blue, your microphone is on. The icon will also pulsate when you speak.

During a conference

To change the camera and audio settings during a conference, follow the steps below:

• Open the audio and camera settings via the Settings icon in the secondary menu.
• Select the desired microphone, speaker and camera from the corresponding drop-down menus.
• You can enable or disable the features by clicking the sliders next to Echo cancellation and Noise cancellation.

Microphone optimization

Microphone optimization allows you to manually adjust the noise reduction settings to suit your device.

• Disable Noise cancellation. You will now see the Microphone optimization feature under Noise cancellation, which allows you to manually adjust the noise cancellation for your microphone.
• Click the blue Run button next to the Optimization wizard.
• Read the text at normal volume.
• Your microphone is now optimized.

Alternatively, you can optimize your microphone yourself.

• Speak into your microphone.
• Now move the slider to adjust the microphone sensitivity. Make sure the indicator bar turns blue and moves beyond the slider to the right.
• When you are not speaking, the indicator bar should be orange or invisible. This means that your voice is not being transmitted.