How to Provision Yealink Android Collaboration Bar?

Yealink Collaboration bar’s are fantastic units that can suit most small to medium meeting rooms. Yealink Colloboration bar support range of the most popular conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Ring Central. Further supports “Yealink Device Mode”, a Popular BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) solution for platforms which are not natively supported. For example if you have a meeting to join on Cisco Webex or Google Meet which are not natively supported. User can simply activate device mode on the touch screen(Need the name if touch screens), connect the USB-C cable which lets you to content share and conferencing. Yealking has 2 options for BYO, Yealink VCH51 a wired BYOD unit and Yealink WPP30 a wireless BYOD unit. Following a recent legal action initiated by Barco regarding patent rights, Yealink has removed the BYOD conferencing feature from the WPP30 and now only offers wireless content sharing functionality. VCH51 does support BYOD conferenicng and contentsharing. 

In this blog lets look at how to provision Yealink’s all in one collaboration Bar. We have Provisioned a Yealink A30 with touch pad for this blog purposes; However the procedure remains same for other collaboration units such as Yealink A10, Yealink A20 or Yealink A40. These all in one bars are best suited with the touch pad, however if you choose not to use one , you can simply connect the bar to the screen via HDMI. You could see the same functionalities on the screen with or without the touch pad. It is recommended to use an interactive touch display or use can control using a mouse which is not a pleasant experience. Now lets look at provision of the Yealink Android bar out of the box.

Connectivity of the Yealink Collaboration Bar:

• Power Supply : From the Collaboration to AC source
• Internet Connectivity: Ethernet connectivity from the Collaboration bar to wall port( “Internet” Port on back of the unit)
• HDMI 1 from the Collaboration bar  to the TV or Display.
• HDMI 2 from the Collaboration bar  to the TV or Display (If room has two displays)
• USB  to Display (only if you are connecting to an Interactive Touch Display)
• Touch Pad : Ethernet connectivity from touch pad to wall port. With Yealink collaboration Bar, touch pad does not connect directly to the bar. Connects to the internet on the same network. Touch pad requires Power Over Ethernet(POE) connection.

Once connectivity in place, configuration can be completed from the touch pad or the screen. In this setup we have configured the collaboration bar to Microsoft Teams. However, provisioning to other platforms like Zoom or Ring Central procedure remain the same. Just like configuring  any smart device, we start with basics such as choosing preferred language, choose preferred  internet connectivity etc.

Selecting the appropriate time zone is very important. If the collaboration bar is out of the time zone, your scheduled meeting displayed will be of the bars time zone. Australia, where we are located in, has three time zone. Further, Microsoft updates are generally pushed around 2AM every day. If the collaboration bar is of different time zone, you may face update issue during your business hours. Hence it is important to configure the bar to your exact time zone. In our demo, since we are Sydney based, we chose UTC+10:00 Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne zone.  Once the time zone is configured next would be to check for software updates are pending for the device. If the device is on the latest firmware it pops up. Else you can upgrade form this window. We recommend to turn on the “Automatic Updates”. This will adjust the device to latest firmware when available. Else you will have to constantly monitor the updates.

Next step would be to choose your choice of meeting profile. For this exercise we provisioned the unit to Microsoft Teams, but same for Zoom , Ring Central or Device Mode(BYO mode)

Now device is all set and Microsoft Teams profile is now ready for configuration. It’s now time to sign in with Microsoft Teams Room license and associate the device with respective room license. You can sign in over a browser with the link https://microsoft.com/devicelogin  and enter the code that is displayed on the touchpad. Else if you wish to sign in on the touch pad , click “sign in on the device”

Once login is successful Touch pad will auto detect the nearest meeting bar connected to along with the serial number. Once detected you can see the Bar model detected on the touch pad Just select the bar model. This will auto pair  the Android bar to the touch pad and we are set to start our conference.

Once the Meeting bar is displayed simply select the displayed bar. Now touch pad and the Yealink Collaboration bar are paired, ready for collaboration. 

We hope this article is  usefull and will assist you to provision a Android base Yealink Collaboration Bar.  If you have any questions or require any assistance, please do not hesitate to Contact Us on 1300668108 or sales@avbyusb.com.au. Our team is happy to answer all your queries.