HRT One SRE User manual

Huddle Hub
Product version 3.0 - Manual version 2
User Guide
Models: One SRE, One+ SRE, One MRE, One+ MRE

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Table of Contents
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 31
1.1 Huddle H ub ............................................................................................................................................. 3
1.2 Documentation ....................................................................................................................................... 4
Understanding Huddle Hub ............................................................................................................. 52
2.1 Rooms, Sessions and Roles ................................................................................................................. 5
2.2 TV, Wireless Camera and Multicam ................................................................................................... 6
2.3 Reaching a Room ................................................................................................................................... 7
2.4 Finding the IP address of a HHO unit ................................................................................................. 8
2. 5 Performances ......................................................................................................................................... 9
Attending a session with a Web Browser ...................................................................................... 103
3.1 Starting or Joining a Session ............................................................................................................. 10
3.2 Sending and Receiving a Presentation ............................................................................................ 11
3.3 Leaving a Session ................................................................................................................................ 13
Attending a session with the Desktop App (Windows and MacOS) .............................................. 144
4.1 Installation ............................................................................................................................................ 14
4.1.1 Minimum re q uirements ................................................................................................................................. 14
4.1.2 Installing the Desktop App ............................................................................................................................ 14
4.1.3 Updating the Desktop App ............................................................................................................................ 1 5
4.2 Starting or Joining a Session ............................................................................................................. 1 5
4.3 Sending and Receiving a Presentation ............................................................................................ 1 7
4.4 Leaving a Session ................................................................................................................................ 1 9
4. 5 Using H uddl e Hub in video-conferences ......................................................................................... 1 9
4. 5 .1 Wireless Camera .............................................................................................................................................. 20
4. 5 .2 Multicam (HHO MRE and HHO+ MRE only) ............................................................................................ 21
4. 6 Settings .................................................................................................................................................. 23
4. 6 .1 Room .................................................................................................................................................................... 24
4. 6 .2 General ................................................................................................................................................................. 2 5

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4. 6 .3 Presentation ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 5
4. 6 .4 Multicam ............................................................................................................................................................. 2 6
4. 6 . 5 Drivers .................................................................................................................................................................. 2 6
4. 6 . 6 Accessibility ....................................................................................................................................................... 2 6
4. 7 Quitting Huddle Hub App .................................................................................................................... 2 7
Attending a session with the Mobile App (Android and iOS) ......................................................... 285
5 .1 Installation ............................................................................................................................................ 2 8
5 .1.1 Minimum re q uirements ................................................................................................................................. 2 8
5 .1.2 Installing the Mobile App ............................................................................................................................... 2 8
5 .1.3 Updating the Mobile App ............................................................................................................................... 2 8
5 .2 Starting or Joining a Session ............................................................................................................. 2 9
5 .3 Sending and Receiving a Presentation with Android .................................................................... 30
5 .4 Sending and Receiving a Presentation with iO S ............................................................................ 33
5 . 5 Leaving a Session ................................................................................................................................ 3 5
5 . 6 Using H uddl e Hub in video-conferences ......................................................................................... 3 5
5 . 6 .1 Multicam ............................................................................................................................................................. 3 6
5 . 7 Settings .................................................................................................................................................. 3 7
5 . 7 .1 Room info ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 7
5 . 7 .2 General ................................................................................................................................................................. 3 8
5 . 7 .3 Presentation ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 8
5 . 7 .4 Multicam ............................................................................................................................................................. 3 8
5 . 7 . 5 About .................................................................................................................................................................... 3 8
Attending a session with an Android TV ....................................................................................... 406
6 .1 Installation ............................................................................................................................................ 40
6 .1.1 Minimum re q uirements ................................................................................................................................. 40
6 .1.2 Installing the TV App ....................................................................................................................................... 40
6 .1.3 Updating the TV App ....................................................................................................................................... 40
6 .2 Starting or Joining a Session ............................................................................................................. 40
6 .3 Receiving a Presentation .................................................................................................................... 41
Index ....................................................................................................................................................... 43

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1 Introduction
1.1 Huddle Hub
Huddle Hub™ product family is the answer to the needs of modern teamwork, which is increasingly
based on content presentation and video-conference. Thanks to Huddle Hub, these activities can be
performed everywhere in your organization, in traditional meeting or huddle rooms, but also in offices,
open-space areas, or even lounges. Every place in your company / organization - whether AV equipped
or not - can be used as a huddle room:
· Taking advantage of existing large displays and webcams, but also using only individual devices. Or
combining the two.
· With no cables for the TV, and no cables for the webcam.
· Running up to 7 concurrent sessions on a single Huddle Hub unit (Smart Rooms feature available in
MRE models only).
· Experiencing a smooth integration between Huddle Hub and your favorite video-conference software.
The Huddle Hub unit is currently available in four versions:
Product name
Short name used
in the manual
Connectivity
Smart Rooms
Huddle Hub One SRE
HHO SRE
Wired
No
Huddle Hub One+ SRE
HHO+ SRE
Wired + Wireless
No
Huddle Hub One MRE
HHO MRE
Wired
Yes
Huddle Hub One+ MRE
HHO+ MRE
Wired + Wireless
Yes
When this guide refers generically to HHO, it means any possible model, while HHO+ means either
HHO+ SRE or HHO+ MRE. Other HHO+ SRE, HHO MRE or HHO+ MRE specific features will be
highlighted.
A companion app (Huddle Hub App, or HHApp) is available for Windows & MacOS (Desktop app),
Android & iOS (Mobile app). On laptops and PCs presentations can be sent or received with any recent
version of the Chrome, Firefox or Edge browsers, but Huddle Hub App is necessary for the wireless
camera feature.
Client type
Presentation
Wireless Camera
Windows
Browser or HHApp
HHApp
MacOS
Browser or HHApp
HHApp
Android
HHApp
not available

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iOS
HHApp
not available
1.2 Documentation
HRT provides a thorough and exhaustive documentation, consisting of the following manuals:
· Quick Start Guide : a very short guide that contains the essential steps to start using HHO. Available
in the box of the product and in the support section of HRT website (www.hrt.website).
· Specification, Safety and Conformity : describes all the technical specifications, the safety
precautions and the conformity of HHO to national/internationals rules and certification requirements.
Available in the box of the product and in the support section of HRT website (www.hrt.website).
· User Guide : shows the user how to use and get the most from Huddle Hub App. Available in the
support section of HRT website (www.hrt.website).
· Installation Guide : from unpacking to deployment, a short guide to install your HHO unit and choose
among different network configurations. Available in the support section of HRT website
(www.hrt.website).
· Configuration Guide : directed to IT Managers or IT staff members, it explains how to configure HHO
to better suit the company needs. Available in the support section of HRT website (www.hrt.website).
· Network Security Guide : contains recommendations for the IT Manager or Network Security
Manager, aimed at designing and implementing a secure deployment of HHO units in the
organization’s infrastructure. Available in the support section of HRT website (www.hrt.website).
· FAQ : the support section of HRT website (www.hrt.website) contains also a dynamically updated
knowledge base with the answer to the Frequently Asked Questions.
Before consulting our documentation, please check that the product version printed on the cover page of
your manual matches your HHO and HHApp versions, and that the manual version is the latest one.
Manual numbering follows the following scheme:
<Manual name> <Product version> - <Manual version> . pdf
For example, "User Guide 3 . 0 - 1 .pdf" means that this version of the User Guide covers all product
versions staring with " 3 . 0 " (e.g. 3 . 0 . 1 , 3 . 0 . 5 etc) and it ' s version 1 of the manual itself.
HRT supports only the latest release of its software, which is always available free of charge. Users and
IT Managers are invited to keep their HHApp and HHO units up to date, and to download the most recent
version the manuals from the support section of HRT website.

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2 Understanding Huddle Hub
2.1 Rooms, Sessions and Roles
Rooms and Sessions
For our purposes, a session is the sitting together of a group of people, with the intent of either making
or assisting to a presentation, or to perform a video-conference.
A session happens in a room, which usually corresponds to a physical place where the participants
meet. However, HHO extends the concept of room to the group of participants that j oin the same
session, wherever they are.
For our purpose, we distinguish two kind of rooms:
· The room where the HHO unit is plugged to peripherals (TV and webcam), which we simply call room ,
or alternatively main room / primary room when we have to distinguish it from the Smart Rooms .
· The Smart Rooms , (HHO MRE and HHO+ MRE only, up to 6 Smart Rooms per unit), each one able to
host one fully independent session, to host sessions everywhere in your organization you can reach
your HHO unit through the L AN.
Each room is identified by a name, that can be set to match a specific place (e.g. "Main meeting room",
" 1 st floor huddle room" etc.) or a group of users it ' s reserved for (e.g. "Marketing dept.", "IT Demo", etc.) or
any other criteria that meets your needs.
A session starts when the first participant connects to a room, and ends when the last participant closes
his connection.
The following example portraits the situation of a company that has two HHO MRE units, each one with
four enabled rooms:
· HHO Ground Floor
o L obby
o Huddle room 1
o Huddle room 2
o Admin & Finance
· HHO First Floor
o Board room
o CEO ' s smart room
o Sales department
o Production department

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Passcode
Sessions can be protected with a passcode , which ensures the privacy of your meeting. The passcode
is a 4 digits random number, generated when the session starts, that is visible on the TV screen or in the
toolbar of the participant that started the session or in the one of the participants that already j oined it.
Passcode protection can be disabled.
Roles
During a session, we identify the following roles :
· Participant : anyone who is connected to the session.
· Presenter : any participant who is currently sharing his/her screen with the other participants.
· Viewer : any participant who is receiving the presenters ' screen.
· Host : we call "host" the presenter that starts a video-conference using the Wireless Camera, thus
sharing the VC software screen with the other participants.
· Active Speaker : during a video-conference based on Multicam, and with Multicam layout set to Active
speaker , the participants whose camera stream is in the main frame of the layout (HHO MRE and
HHO+ MRE only).
2.2 TV, Wireless Camera and Multicam
TV Sets and P r o j ecto r s
In a typical scenario, your HHO unit will be installed in a meeting room, huddle room or another shared
space, and will be connected to a large TV set with an HDMI cable . Switch on your HHO and your TV
and you will see the Welcome Screen , which contains instructions about connecting to that room and
about accessing the session. This Welcome Screen can be customized.
TV Sets and Projectors in Smart Rooms (HHO MRE and HHO+ MRE only)
In the Smart Rooms the HHO unit is not physically present, and there ' s no way to plug it to a TV set.
How do the participants see the presentation ?
There are a few possible options:
· Individual devices: any participant can receive the presentation on his/her own device , either a PC,
a tablet or a smartphone.
· TV set: smart TVs can receive the presentation through a web browser . Android TVs can receive the
presentation like any other Android device can. They j ust need to have the Huddle Hub Android TV app
installed. Other TVs need and Android dongle or set-top box attached to one of their HDMI ports.
· Mixed mode: some participants look at the presentation on their individual device, and the others on
the TV. This is always possible in the hub room

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W i r eless C ame r a
HHO can also connect a USB Webcam . This is not possible in the Smart Rooms , because it has to be
plugged to the unit.The HHO unit will make this webcam available to the HHApp clients connected to the
room, through a virtual camera driver, with no need of any cable.
Mu lticam (HHO MRE and HHO+ MRE only)
When a room webcam is not available, or when you decide not to use it, you can enable the feature
called Multicam , which allows up to 4 participants of a video-conference to use the cameras of their
own devices: their streams get captured and combined into a single one, to send to the video-conference
software of your choice, thus realizing a true multi-camera video-conference system. Multicam is
available only in the primary room and is alternative to the Wireless Webcam.
2.3 Reaching a Room
Whether you want to present your screen to the other participants, or to receive their presentation on
your device, you have to connect to a room . To achieve this, you have to:
1 . Connect your device to the same network HHO is connected to.
2 . Select the room you want to use for your presentation.
N et w o rk connection
The network to use can be either the company L AN or HHO+ embedded access point ( HHO+ only ).
LAN connection
The task of installing and configuring HHO to make it visible to all users on the L AN is your Network
Administrator’s responsibility. Under this configuration, your device will be able to access HHO through
the standard network configurations you already use to access your company L AN, and when you start
your HHApp, you will see a list of all the available rooms associated with the connected HHO units.
Warning : Although HHO and devices are properly configured to access the same LAN, in complex
network configurations you may experience problem in reaching the active rooms. If this happens, contact
your network administrator or consult the Configuration Guide.
Embedded Access Point connection ( HHO+ SRE and HHO+ MRE only )
You can directly connect to your HHO+ unit, provided that you are in the range of its embedded Wi-Fi
access point and that it ' s been configured to allow such a connection. To do so, on your device select
the Wi-Fi name (SSID) of the HHO+ you want to connect to. By default, the SSID is "huddlehub" and the
password is "huddlehub", but they may have been changed (recommended ! ). Ask your Network
Administrator for the HHO+ Wi-Fi credentials .

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Using this approach, you can reach only the rooms that belong to the HHO+ unit you are directly
connected to.
Mixed connection ( HHO+ SRE and HHO+ MRE only )
Both the methods described above can be used at the same time, and any session may have
participants connected either ways.
D isco v e r in g t h e r oom to connect to
Automatic Discovery Service
If both HHO and your device have been properly configured, at its start HHApp will show the list of the
available rooms. This list is prepared and presented to you through a network discovery service . When
the service is enabled (and allowed by local network configurations), HHApp can automatically search
for HHO rooms on the network.
Manual Search
In some network configurations, the automatic discovery service may not be able to reach all the HHO
units and show all their available rooms. For these cases, HHApp offer a Find Rooms function, that you
can use to reach the rooms through the IP address of the HHO unit that hosts them (see next chapter
about finding the IP address of a HHO unit).
2.4 F inding the I P address of a HHO unit
There are cases when you need to know the IP address your HHO unit:
· to download HHApp from the unit ;
· to configure HHO unit with its Web Console ;
· to attend a session using your web browser ;
· to connect to a room that cannot be reached through the discovery service .
When HHO is connected to the company L AN, its IP address is either dynamically assigned by the DHCP
server of the network or statically assigned during its configuration.
· If the unit is connected to a TV or a monitor, and no presentation is in progress, you can read its IP
address on the welcome screen. HHO+ units may have two IP addresses: one for the wired connection
and one for their embedded Wi-Fi network adapter.
· If other participants already entered that room, you can ask them to read the IP address they are
connected to ( ⁝ > Settings > Room info ).
· If none of the previous methods is possible, you have to contact your Network Administrator to get the
IP address of the HHO unit you want to connect to.