Volume 10, Issue 1 — January 2, 2024

BuyersClub — Volume 10, Issue 1 — January 2, 2024

January 2, 2024 | Volume: 10 | Issue: 1

I’ve given up on New Year’s resolutions because they stress me out. I’m a competitive person, so setting a ton of goals for yourself at the beginning of the year feels like I’m just going to make myself mad when I don’t meet every single one. But maybe this year is a lesson on setting more attainable goals and realizing that it’s OK not to meet every single one. What do you think? Are you a New Year’s resolution person? What types of goals (personal and professional) do you set?

For AMX, it seems the resolution may be to open up programming to Python and JavaScript. While Scott Tiner writes that this may make some AV programmers uncomfortable, this will continue to converge AV and IT. Learn more about this and AMX’s new line of controllers here.

Also, don’t miss news like AVer’s cameras receiving certification for Zoom, Logitech’s Sight receiving Microsoft Teams certification (a lot of certification news this time) and more.

Happy New Year!

— Steph Beckett

COLUMNS

+ AMX Takes a Step Away From the Walled Garden [Scott Tiner]

I have written before on the problems with walled gardens, and the industry's (or at least many companies) desire to force people into their ecosystem. While some other companies have incorporated some limited ability to invoke Python scripts from their own programs, I think that this is an amazing step forward for AMX. From this interview with Jeff Burch, it sounds like AMX is looking at this as a strategy for the future, along with opening the code to be more readily accessible to professional programmers