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How to Display Your Laptop to the
AirMedia Wireless System
1) Download the AirMedia Client Application onto your laptop. Students
can download the Client Application as well or the Guest Application.
Instructions to connect using the Guest Application are found on page 5.
AirMedia Client Application Mac download:
http://www.crestron.com/downloads/software/airmedia_deployable_o
s_x_1.0.2.7.pkg
AirMedia Client Application Windows download:
http://www.crestron.com/downloads/software/airmedia_deployable_w
indows_1.0.2.3.exe
2) Crestron AirMedia will create a shortcut on your desktop for future
connections. Note: If you have a Mac laptop you will need to also
download Soundflower to get audio to transmit from your computer.
https://cycling74.com/soundflower/
3) Open the Application and run the utility. Click OK to exit out of the
WARNING window to get to the Login.
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4) Turn on the classroom projection system and select the AirMedia button
on the teaching station. Enter the IP address and code that is displayed
on the projector screen. Click Connect. NOTE: The code will change with
each use of the AirMedia device.
5) Start your presentation. Full motion video with sound is possible;
however, you will notice that the video will lag behind your computer.
Turn down your computer’s speakers for best results.
6) You can play, pause or stop the display using the AirMedia widget which
pops up once you have successfully connected. If you are using audio
with your presentation, turn down your laptop’s speakers.
7) Remember to close the application before you leave the classroom.
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8) For the next class session, you will need to reopen the Crestron
AirMedia software with the shortcut on your desktop
and enter the IP address and code in the window. Click
Connect.
To Manage Multiple Laptops to Display on the
AirMedia Wireless System
The AirMedia will permit students to display to the room projector as
well, thus allowing for instructor-to-student(s) interaction utilizing the
classroom display. The instructor can select whose content to share or
not to share. Follow these steps to prevent “presentation chaos”.
1) Prior to anyone connecting to the AirMedia, type the IP address of
the AirMedia that is displayed on the projector onto the search bar of
the web browser you are using and click enter.
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2) This will bring you to the Crestron AirMedia web page. At the upper left
corner of the page, click Layout Control.
1) Continue by clicking through the Advanced and Proceed windows.
2) The password for the classroom’s AirMedia unit will be the building
abbreviation in upper case plus the room number. Example: JHSW110
3) The Moderator control box is defaulted in the on position but if not,
click that box. When students connect to the AirMedia, you will see their
laptops populate the list with their UW-Stout User Name on the web
page.
4) The students can connect to the AirMedia using the same Client
Application as the instructor or by using the Guest Application. To use
the Guest Application they should open their preferred web browser on
their laptop. The AirMedia wireless connection will work on any
browser. (Safari, Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer)
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5) Type the classroom’s AirMedia IP address onto the search bar of the
browser you are using and click enter which will launch the AirMedia
web page for the Guest Application.
6) You will see the following window in your browser. Download the
Crestron AirMedia Guest Application for either Windows or Mac. If the
download doesn’t open automatically, open it from the download files.
7) Enter the 4 digit code that is displayed on the upper left corner of the
projection screen and click enter.
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8) To display the student’s content, click the first box.
9) To stop their display, click the third box.
10) Be sure all students are logged out before leaving class. When
everyone is logged out, you will see no names populated on the list.
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Lastly, you must click to log out of the Moderator web page.
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