We tested a company laptop (wired and by wifi/VPN) and an iPad (on VPN) running the Proximity app. They connect easily to the C60 if Proximity is enabled. Connection is automatic. No login is required.
The laptop can share content to the C60 by pressing Alt-F12. The top of the laptop screen shows a message “Sharing Content”. The Proximity icon runs in the system tray. While connecting, the icon is partially lit. Once connected, it is grayed out with a slash, indicating it cannot connect, though it has connected. A click on the icon says “Unable to connect, Incompatible software.”
The iPad does not share content, but it receives shared content from the C60. This works for locally shared content (either by the Proximity connected laptop, or a device connected to the room VGA cable) with or without an active video call. It also receives content from an active video call when content is shared from a remote location. While displaying the shared content it also shows controls for the C60 to adjust volume, mute the microphone, dial a new call, or disconnect an existing call.
The C60 caches up to 10 presented slides. The iPad can scroll back through prior slides while the current slide is displayed in a PiP.
If the C60 microphone is muted or the room volume set low, the Proximity connections time out. To stay connected, devices must exchange subsonic information every 180 seconds. If the device leaves the room and can no longer communicate with the C60 by the subsonic audio, it will disconnect upon the failure to respond to the next exchange.
If a presentation stops, either by the Proximity presenting laptop disconnecting from the network or by pressing Alt-F12, or stops by a VGA connected device unplugging the VGA cable, results are unpredictable. Sometimes when presentation resumes the iPad gets the new content no problem, but sometimes the iPad must be disconnected by closing the Proximity app and then restart the Proximity app, and sometimes after reconnecting it still does not get new slides until the laptop stops again (Alt-F12) and starts presenting again (Alt-F12). Sometimes stopping a presentation causes the C60 presentation buffer to freeze on the last slide it presented and the C60 must be restarted to restore normal operation.
Documentation says you enable Proximity on the C60 by command xConfiguration Experimental Proximity Mode: On, however this is not correct for the C60 (running TC7.3.4). The command that works is xConfiguration Experimental Byod Mode: On.
More reliable operation is expected when endpoint firmware is updated to CE8 (the successor to the TC firmware). This will be available for SX, DX, and MX series, not “C” series. It will require updating TMS to ver 15.0.
