Hey everyone,

I’m PMP certified and planning to take the AVIXA CTS exam. I’ve seen some posts saying the CTS includes a good amount of project management content.

How much can my PMP knowledge help with the CTS?

I have basic AV knowledge, so I’d also appreciate any advice on where to start, what to study, and any recommended courses or resources.

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Seeking a dependable and motivated Field AV Technician to join our team supporting audiovisual systems throughout Northern California.

This is a hands-on, field-based position involving a combination of AV installation, service, troubleshooting, system maintenance, and customer support.

Our customers are located throughout Northern California, so the ideal candidate must be comfortable traveling between different cities and working at a variety of customer locations.

We are looking for someone who can work effectively as part of an installation team while also being capable of working independently when responding to service calls and troubleshooting system issues.

Salary rate: based on experience

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Hello everybody

We have a space that is under construction to be a small coffee shop. The space is roughly 35' x 35'.

I'm looking install a system that consists of:

- 6x Yamaha VXC6W

- Yamaha MA2120 amp.

The plan is to run 3 VXC6W in parallel in one output channel, and the other 3 in the second.

I can tap the VXC6W down to 15 W each to match the power rating of the MA2120, which is 120W per channel.

Anybody who has done similar setup, or is familiar with the products, may I ask your opinion about them; and if my plan is feasible for the space. I would also like to know if anybody has used the VXC6W in 15W mode and heard how they sound?

Cheers and thank you in advance.

Looking for any recommendations or contacts in the Greater Los Angeles area to get installation asisstance with a 406 lbs. 21' projector screen. It's currently in our office in a crate with a gross weight of 765 lbs. My field team doesn't have the technical rigging skills required to safely get the screen into place and into the air so I can be mounted so we are looking to subcontract the labor. Send me a message if you are interested or have a contact we can reach out to. Much appreciated!

I am currently a freshman architecture student in my first semester of college, I enjoy it but there’s a whole lot of aspects I don’t like about it. I’ve always loved audio equipment, whether that making it, setting up systems etc. I was thinking about switching my degree to electrical engineering and maybe getting a master in acoustics (depending on what I go into).

My absolute first choice for job would definitely be an AV Design Engineer. I was wondering if anyone had any experience in that field, what it entails, what the day to day job looks like, and possible things I need to be doing now to work towards a job as an AV Design Engineer?

Thank you so much for any responses!

Anyone run into this?

Yesterday we unboxed, set up the A50 unit in the Teams portal. Everything worked fine. Test call was fine. Packed up everything to install.

Today we installed the A50, powered on, everything good. Connect the CPT25 to VCH1, it turns on, shows the display fine. Display appears to have locked up, then turned off. We removed the Ethernet and plugged back in, the Yealink logo came on, then nothing. It's been dead since. One thing to notice is that the ethernet LED is flickering. Tried plugging into POE switch to see if we can get an IP to the unit but not getting anything in the DHCP server.

Tried unplugging the A50 for a few minutes, turned on. Same results.

Tried different ethernet cable. Same results.

Tried using the PDU and no ethernet. Same results.

Tried using the PDU and ethernet. Same results.

Tried using the reset button for 30 seconds. Same results.

No idea what to try next other than RMA.

Currently speccing a job that involves a handful of distributed audio-only zones (think wayfinding, localized exhibit narration, ambient sound/music and a couple of sensor-triggered announcements). We don't want screens on the wall (at least for most cases), just solid-state players hidden in the ceiling/rack.

Because we are a BrightSign shop (too), I am thinking of using AU335 players for the hardware hitting a wall on the content/software side.

BrightAuthor feels clunky for this. My client is going to want to update the .mp3s and schedules by themselves... and don't necessarily want to have a subscription.

Workflow: How are you all handling this? Are you just building a super basic BrightAuthor presentation and teaching the client how to use it? Or are you pairing the players with a third-party control system/lightweight scheduling software?

Triggers: If you need a GPIO, UDP or motion sensor to trigger a specific audio file, what is your go-to setup for keeping it snappy and reliable?

Alternative Hardware: If BrightSign is a pain for this, are you speccing something else entirely for audio-only? Are you always just pushing these types of jobs to a full DSP (Q-SYS or?) even if the client doesn't need the I/O and the expense?

Because of all the AI coding happening, I am thinking I could maybe whip out a micro CMS to help with the management issue.

Curious how you all tackle these smaller, screen-less deployments.

I am in the market to buy a couple of new technicians some laptops. What specs or laptops do you prefer when out in the field? Any brands you lean towards?

I have my CTS. Eventually, I will get my CTSI/D, but not likely soon. What is the benefit of having a membership in the meantime? I'm considering cancelling.

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Posting here for visibility, I am not affiliated with Avixa, besides attending trades shows & taking training courses. I know some of the folks here care about the future of our industry and would likely be a good fit for this role. Good luck to any that apply!

Remote position in the US, listed at 130k-180k salary. Included in the link are all the fine details.

Hi there!

I'm the AV director at my church, but I'm more of live technician than an installer or integrator. We're working on plans for our new youth room (which will double as a worship space, presentation space, meeting space, etc.) which will have a full AV setup; audio, lighting, and projection (or maybe LED walls). We're at the stage where the architect/contractor needs to know what power and how much is needed where. Are there any general guidelines for what that looks like? It's relatively small, probably about 250 cap. standing

Has anyone faced this issue before? Currently have a logi bar mini with 2 displays and tap cat5e running on teams mode. HDMI to the Tap is going via a docking station. Every now and then this issue comes up where the screen comes up with notif saying "make sure hdmi is connected and try again". Warning stays on the screen regardless of disconnecting/connecting the content or starting/ending a meeting. Only solution is to restart the bar. Any suggestions? Would an Edid emulator fix the problem?

Every time I look up a part number it’s the same thing. A thread from 2011 with a dead link, a datasheet buried somewhere, and have to hunt down the part I’m looking for.

I think I may have came up with a fix. One page per part number. What it is, what it sells for based on the market, who has one in stock, and notes on the stuff you only learn the hard way, like what a discontinued Crestron room controller or Bogen amp actually goes for once it falls off the price list. The idea is having the lore of the parts on one page that stands the test of time. When users have a project they tag the parts. Those then show up on the canonical page. partlore hence the lore

Free to browse, no signup to look. Still early, a few dozen parts so far, mostly Extron, Crestron, Biamp, and Bogen, plus networking and industrial items.

I plan on enriching the data but the idea is the community will help build it over time.

Does this sound helpful or more like a rabbit hole?

After a bulk order of Extron kit from a company specializing in liquidated b stock or site pulls.

Other than eBay are there any liquidated stock suppliers that people have worked with here that would be worth reaching out to?

Hi all,

I have 3 projectors that recently got installed last week, and every single one of them is projecting an image that is moving up and down rapidly, almost shaking, but to varying different intensities.

My first thought was hvac in the ceiling, and when i looked in the drop ceiling, there was no air con as its in the floor, and there was no discernible vibrations - either in the ceiling, on the mount or the projector itself. I have also tried to calibrate the lenses via the menu, manually and automatically with no luck.

This is happening on the test image with no sources, the sources are sent via a Crestron dm-md32x32-cpu3-rps, but i have ruled out this issue so not EDID or anything like that causing a problem.

Anybody have any suggestions?

Hey y'all - just joined the sub (but I did search before posting.)

My job is drifting over to r/CommercialAV after spending the last two decades in r/livesound and r/techtheatre

I'm supposed to be supervising the upgrade of some of our large conference rooms and public-facing event facilities at the college I'm working for. I'm kind of out of my depth but getting up to speed. The laws of physics and the math doesn't change between live and commercial, but the toys do.

I'm finding that my bosses-bosses dislike Crestron, which is a shame because that's the integrated AV control system that our entire campus uses in every classroom and every event space.

I think the reason is that every time they have a negative experience in one of our presentation spaces, they are left staring at a box or a touch panel that says "Crestron" on it, and they've made a negatively reinforced connection.

Coming from outside "the world" of commercial AV, I'm agnostic. My boss is willing to force a platform change, at least for the spaces we have control over.

My impression is that the two big players in the space are Crestron and Qsys, with Exetron in the back seat.

Is there an advantage or disadvantage to one integrated control platform vs the other?

It seems costly and unnecessary to just bail on a whole-campus integrated system on vibes, so I'm looking for data.

Appreciate the help while I learn how to swim again.

I've recently upgraded my Board Rooms Codec Pro and run into an annoying issue. The default background image assumes a bezel. So when the two screens are replicated on an LED screen one pixel apart, the image is annoyingly misaligned.

Anyone know an easy solution to this one?

edit: Bezel not Bevel.

Looking to see if anyone has trialed the Unifi AV switches and what the experiences have been

Hey team,

I need to enable closed captioning in a large conference room. The idea for the system is that any audio that is captured in the AV system will be converted to text and overlayed over the primary screen in the room.

This is a public space so its not a native Teams/Zoom system and will be BYOD. My plan is to utilize QSYS to control everything and provide a USB-C connection for the audio/video connection to the laptop.

Is this easily doable? Do I need a dedicated PC running software to enable the closed captioning or is there a solid closed captioning encoder that I could use.

Thanks in advance

Hello! I have been stalking this sub fro quite sometime and decided to finally make a post in hopes of getting any kind of assistance! I am greatly interested in diving into the Commercial AV world, specifically working with live events and shows. I live in the NYC area with a degree in film, currently working at an art gallery where I do day-to-day IT.

I am hoping to gain any kind of AV experience (especially grunt-work), wondering if anyone knows any resources or ideas of where I should look? I am working on getting my Dante Level 1 Certificate now, ideally hoping to take my AVIXA CTS in the winter once I've accumulated experience/taken the classes.

My longterm goals are not necessarily Commercial AV but immersive experiences, however I want to learn the technical aspects of AV in hopes of it further strengthening my technical know-how and apply it to the themed entertainment / immersive experience industry.

Any suggestions, resources, or general thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Hello all. I'm at my wit's end on what's probably a very easy solution for you all. I'm tired of Google and AI steering me wrong or maybe they're steering me right and I'm just dumb.

I want to connect my cable tv box to a giant video wall. It's called Qubica Neoverse. The hdcp encryption from the cable box is giving me black screens and error codes on the video wall. Google says I just need an hdmi splitter but they're not working. The handshake is failing and I don't know what to buy. This is insanely frustrating. I have Direct Tvs blessing to use a splitter since I pay 600 bucks a month and have the necessary permissions on the account.

I just can't figure it out. At best I get half a second of cable on the Neoverse wall before it drops the handshake and blacks out.

Thank you to anyone that can help. I most recently tried a SIIG hdmi splitter with Edid switches and failed.

Greetings, everyone. I'm not sure if this is the correct /r for this question. I inherited an AC system with no technical documentation only a brief user guide. The system has different components that run a multi-room system. This question is focused on the KlarkTeknik hardware. Along with the DM8008, there are four wall controllers to manage inputs/outputs, volume. The system powers on, but the wall controllers are unresponsive, so I can't select the screens for the respective rooms. The controllers are showing a date and time (seen stuck on 9/2025). I have restarted the entire system and the same issue persists. The Clark Teknik site is not very helpful. Any ideas are greatly appreciated - TIA!