Still not sure what it is - Like a personal “neat” board? Can I use it on my own for Teams without my admin setting it up?
“… the desk device that replaces your webcam, microphone, speakers, and monitor.”
So it’s a monitor with some additional smarts built into it.
(Note that I am not staff. I just volunteer to help out on the forums.)
The pointless price must really be pointless. Woot doesn’t give discounts that deep anymore.
The idea of a full-size touchscreen monitor seems a bit odd to me. I think it’s more of a niche product.
Very niche product. I remember when Cisco sold Fortune 500 Companies the idea of having entire conference room with this technology. One half of the room were monitors that beamed in a similar room somewhere in the world. The idea was people needed not just presentations and smart boards but to see each other in livesized dimensions. Big wigs bought hook, line, and sinker, but most average employees are ok with a voice, little cam window, and screen share for collaboration.
My guess is Cisco repackaged the idea in the smaller format after the rooms failed and then Covid. Never miss an opportunity to exploit failure/disaster. Though, with the product is here, Cisco just needs to move on. Also I don’t doubt Cisco tried to sell this thing for over $2k to corporations back in 2020-22.
They did Tried to sell several to us for just under 2 grand a piece.
Looked further—Cisco says works natively with MS Teams. “Starting at $2,995”.
What I can’t find is if a software subscription is required to make it work.
It’s unclear to me if this actually works as a normal touch screen monitor, speakers, webcam, USB hub or if it forces you to use RoomOS and Webex (there is a free version of Webex that allows up to 40 minute meetings)
(I’ve tried pulling datasheets and I’m only made more confused)
If we could use it without their software, the discounted price point isn’t the worst for this niche product, if you have to use Webex, it’s way more niche
As I said, one webpage says “MS Teams” and one of their videos shows a Teams icon on the display’s desktop.
In another place it suggests you can connect it to your PC and it will work as a 2nd display along with the mic/cam features (not sure about touchscreen). I might question with this whether Windows has drivers for it; don’t see any Cisco downloads.
Here’s their downloads page. No Win drivers:
https://software.cisco.com/download/home/286329304/type
Nowhere can I find anything about hacking this thing to use other than RoomOS.
The 30MB user guide appears to have the most/best info about this:
I can see too it works with Zoom. This from the user guide:
I can jump into this discussion, as I manage all the video endpoints for the firm I work for, and my team uses these devices. This price is crazy low, but the everyday consumer won’t easily be able to use it’s full functionality.
To get full functionality on a device like this, you need a service that can give you SIP registration for the device to allow you to dial into meetings. Cisco doesn’t sell registration/gateway functionality to regular consumers, as far as I’m aware (but it is how we register all our devices in our enterprise). Zoom does offer a method to do it, but it would be an add on service, and requires a PC to act as a relay between the device and Zoom to keep it registered. Without SIP registration, you can’t use any of the handy calling buttons. And you cannot use the Zoom button (noted in the prior posting) unless the Zoom meeting you are calling has CRC capability added (another Zoom add-on).
You’ll also need a Cisco account in order to get software updates for the device.
It is possible to register a device like this on your own and obtain IP dialing capabilities. Or at least this was possible on the prior generation of these personal video conference devices. However, you’d still be limited in what you can dial, as only a handful of platforms still offer IP dialing, most have gone to SIP only.
As for the USB-c connectivity, it does work with a laptop to use the onboard camera/mic/speakers. It doesn’t need any specific drivers to get it to work - with windows at least. I just connected to the one I have at home for the sake of testing touch capability, and couldn’t interact with my laptop; I could only do a whiteboard on the device itself. Might be something else needed to get that functionality to work, if it’s even possible, just not something I had ever tried to do.
Hopefully this is helpful to anyone considering purchasing one of these.
USB-C passthrough to control the camera, mic and speakers works on Windows and Mac without drivers. Touch redirect, where you control your laptop with the touch screen, only works on Windows. This model doesn’t charge your laptop like the larger Desk Pro unit and has a lower resolution (1080p vs 4k).
So basically it’s a 24" 1080p monitor (not great), with speakers.
Might work OK if it gets treated the same as this version.
These were put in BOCs but the other items kicked them out because they aren’t worthy.
He sorta lost me at the MS Office account stage—I don’t have any of that. But if I didn’t already have a high-quality mic/cam/speaker device (a Nexigo conference gizmo) that I can easily take between our two homes I would wanna try a couple of these.
Also I really only do Teams meetings a couple times a year so this would mostly be a low-res extra screen for me. 
This reminds me of a device I still own from my 3Com days- the Audrey (a kitchen-computer). If you don’t know about the Audrey, you’re in the same place the average consumer will be in a couple of years with respect to this Cisco device- owning a dinosaur.
While most of y’all are looking at the specs on this device. I’m still trying to figure out why Umar Patel needs to have a 1.5 hour daily sync? Umar… that’s 7.5 hours a week buddy. Email, smartsheets and confluence are your friends. And then If in doubt, DM it out.
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I had an Audrey. It seems to me that I was able to hack the thing but gave it away many years ago. A fun toy.
I imagine this Cisco thing to be fun as well, but don’t need any new toys atm.