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KRAMER SOLUTIONS ADORNE THE ERRIGLE INN Roger McMullan, Projects at Rea Sound, guides EI around this holistic hostelry solution. Situated on the Ormeau Road, The Errigle Inn opened its doors on in December 1935. Built on the foundations of the ‘Old Ballynafeigh Inn’ or as was popularly known ‘The Miss Blacks’, the earliest definite record of a public house on this site dates back to the 1800’s. An inn with a strong place in the community, care was needed when it came to the AV solutions needed for this location. The initial plans for a full building upgrade were finalised just before March 2020 – then COVID hit and paused the work. A new roof garden, decoration throughout and an AV upgrade were the plans - including new Kramer switching products. Roger explains, “So this is a relatively large venue with 30 displays across five rooms and an outdoor space. There are 11 sources ranging from Sky boxes two media players and local laptop inputs. Because of the flexibility of the system the venue is able to have digital advertising running during the day and then switch too late sports at the top of an interactive panel. “The system is designed across two network switches with fibre links, which enable us to have the majority of the equipment contained in the master comms room and a smaller secondary comms cabinet in the main function area. As the venue sits across four levels the complexity of the wiring was carefully thought out and planned.” The client needed reliability and the ability to easily switch and control visual sources to the displays. It was important also for the client to be able to allow for audio to be simply controlled through the same customised touch panel.
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Roger reveals, “I think that the main challenge that we came across was the setting up of the network. There are so many parameters that need to be dealt with across the two switches, but this became a small headache. But as this was the first time we had done it this way it was only to be expected.”
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Roger says, “We opted for the kds-6 AV over IP solution because of the flexibility and reliability. We provided 11 encoders and 30 decoders to correspond with the number of inputs and outputs. Working closely with the design team at Kramer we opted for a brainware system for the control. Spending time to create the correct user interface on Kramer control was a must. We split the custom control programme into two areas; the first being graphic design and the interface the client would see and
then the technical programming side which followed after. With the additional FC-26 units we were able to learn IR codes enabling us to take full control of all satellite boxes. Because the client had their own iPad units, we simply downloaded the application and implemented our programme on the iPads.” So why Kramer? Roger states, “We did have a number of options available to us for this project, however, we know the reliability of Kramer products and the venue knows the reliability of Kramer. Working with Ken Sclater and Andrew Martin at Kramer they answered our presale questions easily and also provided a video reassurance to our client for a specific query which was the IR control of the satellite boxes.” The team also upgraded the audio control system within the venue using the Allen & Heath AHM64 digital matrix.
Kramer Kit List • AV - Control:Kramer KDS-EN6 • AV - Control:Kramer KDS-DEC6 • AV - Control:FC-26 Ethernet to IR • AV - Control:KC-Brainware-5
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