How to enable Multi-Stream IntelliFrame on Rally Bar for Microsoft Teams on Windows (Beta)

Microsoft Teams Multi-Stream IntelliFrame enhances remote meetings by capturing multiple in-room participants and presenting a single room view with individual participant streams from the room. It automatically highlights active speakers, ensuring remote attendees see a balanced and inclusive representation of everyone in the meeting. A total of 4 individual streams and 1 room view are supported.

Key Features:

• Identifies people and produces multiple video streams for more inclusive meetings.

• Ability to show/hide room view in far-end Teams Desktop application. 

Note: 

• Multi-Stream Intelliframe experience will only be shown on far-end Teams Desktop applications and Teams Rooms on Windows.

• Multi-Stream Intelliframe will only show the room view stream on Teams Rooms on Android.

• Multi-Stream IntelliFrame may require additional network bandwidth. The Teams Room application receives four individual streams up to 720p each, plus one room view stream up to 1080p. Microsoft Teams dynamically adjusts video bandwidth based on various factors, including network performance. Please contact Microsoft for further details.

• Sub-Tiling is supported and can further optimize the space between meeting participants by utilizing smaller subframes. Sub-Tiling will include all meeting room participants by sub-dividing the video stream.

  • Learn more about Grid View Sub-Tiling.

  • See the image below as an example.

    • Sub-Tiling on:

      • Sub-Tiling will include all meeting room participants by sub-dividing the video stream.

        

    • Sub-Tiling off (default):

      • Shows the 4 most recent active speakers.

    

• People recognition and tagging will be supported in a future release.

  • Note: People recognition and tagging will not be supported while Sub-Tiling is enabled.

Getting Started

To use Multi-Stream IntelliFrame, you’ll need a Logitech Rally Bar or Rally Bar Mini, and CollabOS 1.14 or higher.

Prerequisites:

• Logitech Rally Bar or Rally Bar Mini running CollabOS 1.14.155 or higher

• Any computer that is certified for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

• Microsoft Teams Rooms with Pro license

• Update Teams Rooms to version: 5.2.115.0

• Sync app version 3.7.145 or higher

• Rally Bar must be connected to a supported PC with a USB 3.0 cable

Step-by-Step Guide

• On your Teams Room compute, go to the Teams admin settings and login to Windows as an administrator.

• Download and install Sync App version 3.7.145 or higher on your Teams Rooms on Windows compute.

• Start Sync and make sure that the room’s camera (Rally Bar / Rally Bar Mini) is updated to CollabOS 1.14.155 version or higher.

• If you want to, you can enable Sub-Tiling in the Sync app as well. 

  1. Then select Grid View

  2. Activate Sub-tiling

• In the Sync app, go to the camera section and enable Multi-Stream Mode.

• Rally Bar will reboot to enter Multi-Stream mode.

• Teams Rooms should be ready to use IntelliFrame once the device has rebooted. 

• Sign in to Microsoft Teams Rooms settings as an admin and ensure Rally Bar is the selected camera. 

• Open Teams admin settings and enable Enhanced framing and IntelliFrame.

• Multi-Stream IntelliFrame should now be enabled and you can start a meeting.

• In the Teams Desktop application, you can now show/hide the room view (panorama) in camera settings.