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    • mickey
      mickey last edited by

      hi together,
      managed to extend the kinect V2 for an installation
      over 50m with really minimal latency
      had to buy this extensive repeater:

      https://newnex.com/FireNEX-5000H-K.php

      ¿ could imagine to rent to collegues, so it'll be more affordable to everyone.
      Makes sense ? Just contact me

      All the best , keep on keeping on
      Mickey

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      • Fred
        Fred @mickey last edited by

        @mickey hey do you still have the extension? If so where are you based?

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        • Woland
          Woland Tech Staff last edited by

          @mickey said:

          had to buy this extensive repeater:

           Just throwing in that I have successfully extended Kinects over Cat6 (you don't *need* fiber). Just don't go for the cheap ones because with those you really get what you pay for. 

          https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c...

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          • Fred
            Fred last edited by Fred

            for a Kinect V2 with USB 3 there is no way to do it with a cat system. Kinect 1 is USB 2 and the cheaper systems can be used. I have one of these sets and use it with the first Kinect regularly, but for this project I need to use a Kinect v2. The firenex system is one of 2 I know of that work with the Kinect 2.

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            • Woland
              Woland Tech Staff @Fred last edited by

              @fred

              Even USB 3 extenders don't work?

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              • Fred
                Fred @Woland last edited by

                @woland to get enough bandwidth for the Kinect, or any full bandwidth USB 3.0 device fibre is the only way, and only a small number of USB 3 extension systems have low enough latency to work with the Kinect 2

                 So no cat systems and options are limited and expensive. There are a few 10m cables with fibre transceivers built in, some can be chained but they are still very expensive and problematic, if the cable is damaged the transceivers have to be thrown out. The separate fibre trancievers that run over a multi or single mode fibre cable (the cable is cheap) are the way to go. They are about €1000 a set with no cable.

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                • mark_m
                  mark_m @Woland last edited by

                  @woland said:

                  Even USB 3 extenders don't work?

                   They do... but only up to about 5 metres. 

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                  • D
                    dritter last edited by dritter

                    I have been using  this combination of cables to provide a 20.5 m cable for a Kinect v1 with no problems:

                    6m: Kinect builtin cable

                    4.5m: NYKO kinect extension ($10 USD)
                    https://www.ebay.ca/itm/NYKO-E...

                    10m: USB Blue Rigger ($19 CAD)
                    https://www.amazon.ca/BlueRigg...

                    I have three sets of these cables to connect three Kinects to two 2015 MacBook Pros running NI-mate.

                    Don

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                    • Maximortal
                      Maximortal last edited by

                      extend a kinect 2 is a pain in the ass and very expensive. When I have to do it ( if a really have ) I use another computer closer than the one in control booth (usually I place i behind a wing) then I send data/video through a cat6 cable to control booth (osc do not need a cat 6 but video yes) using spout to ndi or tcp syphon (but some time even in a gigabit lan we got some drops)

                      an pretty small and cheap pc can handle a kinect 2 (around 600 € and with a very small case) 

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                      • Fred
                        Fred @Maximortal last edited by

                        @maximortal so it looks like @mickey has not been active for 2 years, does anyone know who this is? Anyone have another contact?

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                        • Michel
                          Michel Tech Staff @Fred last edited by

                          @fred

                          I sent you a PM.

                          Best Michel

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