Schools are sometimes like Hogwarts: the walls move, the doors move, and what was a corridor last term is now a classroom and an office. The AV team at St Ignatius had to build a system flexible enough to keep up. A big part of their approach has been “Everything, everywhere” : being able to send audio, video, paging, alert tones, and control to any room or space that needs it.
It started with one Q-SYS Core running bells at the college. Over time, that has grown into eight Cores across two campuses, covering theatres, classrooms, function spaces, school-wide PA, music, paging, emergency tones, SMS and email alerts, and a rapidly growing AV-over-IP network to keep it all in sync.
Warren and Allan will share how a small team of two has used smart design, programming, and automation to solve complex AV problems in a school environment. They will also cover how they’ve made complex systems usable for teachers and students, from Year 7 students controlling sound, lighting, and vision from an iPad, to dance teachers running full performances without needing a technician.
The session will include practical examples from their theatres, classrooms, dressing rooms, overflow spaces, HVAC control, NDI feeds, Dante, Q-LAN, RTMP/SRT streaming, and the custom workflows that turn complicated event setups into push-button solutions.