[PLUG-AV] Lapel/Lavalier mics, was Re: Retail therapy...

[Benjamin]

At risk of stating the obvious, most USB 3.x hubs will work in a USB 2.0
port just fine...

On Mon, 18 July 2022, 8:06 am Nick Bannon, <nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 11:23:22AM +0800, Harry McNally wrote:
> > After meeting discussion about lapel mics and I searched this:
> > https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004252481654.html
> > https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003631112179.html
> > Same product, price competition only I think.
> >
> > USBC for the receiver but I'd be interested in getting a dual lapel one
> and
> > see if the lapel will talk directly to Linux; PC or RPi. It claims BT5.0;
> > HowHardCouldItBe(tm).
> > I only one lapel is needed per AV set then it fills two sets.
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 01:12:17PM +0800, Harry McNally wrote:
> > No problem. And on the last point, I can grow the list of links into
> HedgeDoc.
> > The only concern I have is we then delay testing until a further on
> meeting;
> > the China Free Postage is the latency.
>
> Yeah - I do waver a bit on doing things in and between meetings.
> Preparation _is_ great, it can just end up demanding of volunteer time.
> If there was a risk we'd be at a hack day, out of projects, bored and
> with nothing to do, definitely. ::-)
>
> > I can buy the lapel mics to at least have those for testing at the
> > Artifactory meetup. It is small beer. Give the word and I can.
>
> Sounds good to me. I'm not sure what the exact final, delivered AUD
> price is from looking at the Aliexpress links is, but it reminds me of:
>
> https://www.altronics.com.au/p/d0986-wireless-lapel-microphone-to-suit-usb-c-devices/
> ...so about half price? though we would not have to pay full retail.
>
> It is possible that we'll need some more straightforward connection to
> USB-A instead of USB-C, are there any bargain USB2.0-ish hubs with a C
> port or two? They seem to have been strangely missing from the market,
> though some high-end things like this have started to appear:
> https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-4-element-hub/
> https://plugable.com/products/tbt4-hub3c
>
> Perhaps just a multi-port A hub, with some A-C socket adaption.
>
> Nick.
>
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