Hi James, At your offline suggestion I tried this myself and observe the same fit inducing flashing - however when I shared the desktop (which had a full-screen NX session running) it worked fine
The performance seems good enough to be able to follow along with data collection at the very least Best wishes Graeme > On 3 Jul 2020, at 09:44, Sandy, James (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI) > <james.sa...@diamond.ac.uk> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have had problems trying to share my screen using Teams when using the NX > client. I have experienced the screen flashing in a manner which may induce > fits! This may be related to sharing a window rather than the whole desktop > but something to be aware of. I have taken to using Zoom if I want to work > with others sharing an NX session. > > Cheers, > > James > > > -----Original Message----- > From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> On Behalf Of Winter, Graeme > (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI) > Sent: 03 July 2020 09:33 > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Relaying a remote data collection on using moodle > collaborate or Microsoft Teams > > Hi Nick > > I’ll offer a vote in favour of teams, as it is possible with the desktop > application to hand over control as well for a shared window (e.g. NX) so > your student could perform the collection themselves under your supervision > rather than just watching. > > I’ve not tried teams + NX as a combination but I can see no reason why this > would not work, it’s not like the network load will be much different to > watching a room full of happy faces… you could also try this out in advance, > connecting to nx.diamond for e.g. processing and confirming that the screen > share works so you lose no time on data collection day. > > FWIW I prefer zoom for meetings as it’s got better sound & copes better with > large groups (IMHO) however for small groups / 1:1 teams has worked quite > well in my experience, and I was particularly impressed with the screen > sharing. > > Best wishes Graeme > > > >> On 3 Jul 2020, at 09:18, Nicholas Keep <n.k...@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> We are going to be doing a data collection for an MRes student at Diamond in >> the next couple of weeks. These are his first crystals. It would be good >> if he could be involved in watching it. >> >> I was wondering if anyone had tried sharing screen and voice via moodle >> collaborate or Microsoft Teams while doing a data collection? Zoom is >> deprecated by our institution but if anyone had succeeded on zoom that would >> also be interesting. >> >> I am on Virgin media 100 MB broadband which is pretty much achieving that >> (upload is only around 9 MB though). >> >> Alternatively we can try and set him up to connect via nx and watch, but >> that would lose the sound connection unless I have a phone tucked under my >> chin. >> >> We could just record my screen and sound and he could watch later. >> >> Any tips? >> >> Best wishes >> >> Nick >> >> >> >> -- >> Prof Nicholas H. 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