Who is using PulseMesh this year in Australia ?

[Santa2]

Wondering how many of us are using PulseMesh this year in Australia and the feedback?

 

[ryanschristmaslights]

@JamesKennewellSA is. In the below video his display's audio was streaming to my phone (video is from a separate camera with audio captured via its built-in microphone):

View: https://www.facebook.com/AusChristmasLighting/videos/983996337094655/

 

[B4IGO]

I've used it a bit in my own display testing, but haven't advertised it at all. It works reasonably well. Not perfect, like initial startup/sync takes a while, and there's been a few instances where it just didn't play and I had to close it and restart it (using the web player). But when it works, it seems to work very well with minimal difference to my outdoor speaker.

 

[Johnnyboy]

Like @B4IGO ive set it up and been quite useful in testing my display without carrying a small FM radio around.

As for publicly advertising it, I’m not sure it would be better that what I have now. Most people for my display come on foot and listen to the speakers I have, or via car and either roll down the windows or tune in via my FM transmitter. Plus it needs it adds an extra step or needing to scan a code.

I can see it being super useful where neighbours don’t like outdoor speakers etc and each visitor brings they own audio.

very impressive tech and glad someone figured it out. I can see it being very useful in public displays

 

[bert-nc]

Was wondering if this would be a solution for the audio in my display
I am sure there will be several improvements to the system before next season

 

[djgra79]

Would this still introduce various delays per person? I noticed last night whilst talking to visitors that I could hear 3x different time delays of my audio from different cars near me

 

[thewanderingpine]

It’s supposed to address that. (The issue that digital radios often introduce a delay)

 

[Skymaster]

Would this still introduce various delays per person? I noticed last night whilst talking to visitors that I could hear 3x different time delays of my audio from different cars near me

Every streamer would have their own delay, the concept here being similar to multisync on FPP - each app has a copy of the music for and is being told where in the file it'd up to.
That sync packet will take a finite time to reach the user, depending on network latency, in the order of a few tens to hundreds of milliseconds.
It's possible with accurate time synchronisation to have that accounted for, to a certain degree, but whether that's implemented or not it's a different story.