- Hey, it's Mark again,
still not in the lab at VoIP supply
but I am here to share with you a very interesting product
from one of my favorite companies, Algo.
If you're not familiar with Algo,
they're a leading company
in the Intercom, Paging
and Alerting Space.
With that said
we're going to be talking about
the Algo 8190S Sip classroom speaker.
So, what is this thing?
The Algo 8190S was designed for schools
or similar environments
where alerting is an essential daily function.
Think of it as the school classroom speaker of your past
but on steroids. In this video
I'm going to overview the Algo 8190S
show you how easy it is to configure
and demonstrate some pretty interesting functions.
Okay, Let's first talk about the specs of the 8190S.
The Algo 8190S is powered by PoE,
but PoE plus standard (indistinct) 802-3 AT
is recommended
due to the max power consumption of 25.5 Watts.
You can expect between five and eight Watts when idol
although you can successfully page
to the 8190 S using multicast.
It supports many SIP accounts for various functions
such as playing prerecorded messages or alerts.
Also some SIP accounts are used to cancel an alert
or playing message.
You can register over 20 accounts depending
on your figuration and function usage,
sip via TCP or UDP
as well as TLS and SRTP
for encrypted signaling and audio
is supported along with the G-711
and G-722 Codex.
check Algo's website, algosultions.com
for specific PBX and SIP server compatibility
if you have concerns as mentioned before
multicast RTP is supported as well as poly-com group page
and push to talk all receive only single wire
in form a cast is supported
but requires an additional license.
Configuration, and provisioning of the 8190 S
is accomplished via HTTP, HTTPS,
TFTP, or FTP.
DHCP options, 66, 150 and 160 can be used
to point the 8190 S to a provisioning server.
for monitoring and supervision,
SNMP is supported, or you can use an algo 8,300 controller
in terms of speaker loudness, the SPL
or sound pressure level at one meter was measured
at 98 DBA from the four inland speaker arrangement.
There is an integrated Omni directional microphone
for talk back and ambient noise monitoring.
Arguably the party piece
of the 8190 S are the four colored lights,
red, blue, green and amber that are able to be paired
with alerts and announcements.
Additionally, there's a built-in dry contact
relay input and output for things
like electronic door latches or call buttons.
There's one gigabyte of storage space
for uploading wave files that can be customized messages
alerts, or tones, which can be managed to the web interface.
A very nice high contrast clock that is synchronized
with MTP sits on top of the unit with a back
of the call button, located all the way at the bottom.
Overall, the dimensions of the algo 8190 S is
16 inches high, 8.25 inches wide,
and 3 inches thick.
Okay, let's talk about configuring the Algo 8190 S.
The first thing you want to do is open up your web browser
and browse to the IP address of the device.
Now you'll probably find this in your network's DHCP server
but if you don't have access to that, you can actually
hit the reset button on the back of the device
and it will speak the IP address to you through the speaker.
Now, once you browse to the IP address
I recommend using HTTPS, you'll be presented
with a status page before logging in.
It'll give you the status of a couple of extensions
that you might have registered.
I have a configuration set up here already with a couple
of extensions for functions, and you're also
given some status information, IP addresses,
the date, the time, speaker settings,
and you're actually seeing a few Poe plus warning
on the bottom here, just because they don't have it plugged
into Poe Plus.
It'll tell you should use that if you want to use
both audio and strobes.
Okay. So let's get logged in, the default password is algo,
so we can go ahead and put that in.
After logging in,
You were brought to the sip tab
under basic settings where you'll start your configuration.
You'll notice that I already have a configuration that I set
up for the demonstration, but I'll kind of run
through this real quick.
For CIC domain, this is the IP address of your IP PBX.
And I have a ring alert extension,
6006
on my PBX, and it's registered with the Algo,
underneath it I have a page extension, 6007
and extension to dial is 6000.
What that does is dials that number immediately
Once someone pushes the button on the bottom of the device,
the other two extensions are
for functionality where I can alert the device
and I can page the device.
Moving along to the features tab,
there's not a lot to change here
these are all gonna be pre-populated put through
but they are changeable settings for
inbound ring settings, inbound page settings app
on page settings and audio processing.
We can make some adjustments to our clock,
we can change the format,
the brightness of the screen,
the strobes interesting,
because we can customize
the patterns that we want to show up,
highly customizable here.
And multicast is going to be pretty important
especially if you have Polycomm phones
And even if you don't and your phones support multicast
you're able to broadcast audio to the speaker with multicast
and Polycomm has built in group page and push-to-talk.
And I actually have this configured on my Polycomm phone,
and I'll show you how that works its pretty cool.
With additional features,
input output for our relays,
on our relay input mode,
we can make some changes here.
I'll put light, heartbeat light
just a little light that flashes
on the screen and you can have turned on or off,
Output relay, and we can choose
whether or not we want the backlight to actually be lit.
Emergency alerts, a couple of settings here.
First one, this is a
this is an important one, call to cancel.
So if we're playing an alert
and we have the alert playing and we can have it set
so it plays until we dial a specific extension,
well this is that extension.
I have this registered on my phone system,
so if I want to stop the alert, I dial 6008 or I actually
have a speed dial on my phone,
so I just hit a button to do that.
And I do have one announcement configured here
extension 6009, and it plays a prerecorded wave file,
so there'll be some dogs barking when I dial 6009.
I could also choose my stroke pattern
that I should do before where we can kind of
configure what the strobe will do while this is
going to do a sparkle red. when I dial 6009.
We could also configure other announcements,
but I only have the one configured for this demonstration.
And then we have a couple here, extras that we can do.
These are not configured, but click enable and you can enter
in specific extensions for these features.
Moving along to advanced settings
we have our network settings tab,
admin for any kind of password changing,
device name, logging, management,
time for our NTP server configuration,
provisioning modes, how we want to provision this device,
advanced audio,
advanced SIP.
We want to use a TLS, we don't enable TLS SRTP, for example.
Our net settings, and some advanced multicast.
System maintenance, we can upgrade our firmware here
and check for updates.
Here's where we can actually manage the files on the
Algo 8190S,
especially our uploaded tones and custom wave files.
Here's what we can actually download and install,
ringtones from the Algo server,
logging and some information on the, the firmware
and about firmware version is expected.
Your Mac address, hardware information.
So as you can see, there's not a ton
to the configuration of the Algo 8190S,
but what's going to be important for the demonstration
is here, the emergency alerts.
We're going to go through playing the announcement
canceling the announcement,
I'm going to page the algo,
I'm just going to ring the algo,
and I'm going to demonstrate the poly-com,
push-to -talk multicast.
So let's take a look at the physical unit
and we'll go through this demonstration.
Oh, wait, let me take care of something first.
(peeling noise)
Yeah, here we go.
So as you can see, there's a very big screen.
We have the strobes on the right side
the left side, speakers down the middle
and we have our call button
that's illuminated at the bottom here.
Not much going on with the back here,
we do have our 10-100 Poe port
and our relay control.
And right there is a reset button used
for doing a factory reset
or we can actually get the IP address,
of the unit by pressing on that.
- (speaker) IP address is 10.10.20.156, IP address is 1...
- Okay. It's not going to stop until you hit
that reset button again.
So let me hit that.
I just use a little tool like this to hit that.
Okay. So let's demonstrate a little bit here.
So if I want to play announcement one, remember
that extension that will play the, the dog noises?
(dogs barking)
- Alright now to cancel that I have to hit
the cancel extension.
So I have a speed dial on my phone for that.
And I also have speed dial for paging,
(ring and high pitched noise)
123,
and just to ring without an answer,
(dialing tone, and ringing)
Okay, here's the feature I really like,
which is the built-in Polycomm, push-to-talk multicast.
So this is a configuration on the phone itself
If you have Polycom phones, look through your
your (mumble) the interface on how to configure that
but have it set up on the bottom here,
so if I push and hold the push-to-talk,
Hello hello, one, two, three.
(high pitched ring)
Now we also have a group page button.
So if I go back into the interface on the Algo
and I enable the group page, then that'll function.
So let's try that real quick.
Let me go back to the interface here.
(clicking)
(high pitched ring)
- One, two, three,
Okay well there's one more thing to mention here
with the illuminated call button on the bottom of the unit.
And I showed you earlier
that you could preset this to an extension.
Well, one thing I discovered is if you're going to push this
to an extension that no one is going to answer
and there's voicemail enabled
you're going to get stuck in that voicemail.
So I had to turn the voicemail off on this extension
but right now it's set to call my phone when I push this,
(dialing and ringing)
and of course if I don't pick it up and I voicemail
it's going to go to voicemail, and it'll get stuck,
but I can pick this up. Hello?
So it's a useful feature.
And that's what I have for you guys.
The algo 8190S, awesome product, awesome company.
I've always liked Algo, super easy device to configure,
and if you have a need
for a product like this, you should seriously consider it.
Schools, hospitals, industrial manufacturing facilities,
there's definitely use for this,
so I would really consider, take a look into it.
If it, if it looks appealing to you
and you can see it has all kinds
of great functionality, very customizable.
So, you know, really give it a thought and as always
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Again, this is Mark, not in the lab at VoIP supply.
Thanks for watching this one-time at Voip camp.