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title: "A/V-Tech: Talk Checklist"
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See: <https://github.com/voc/checklists/blob/main/source/talk.pdf>

## Tips and Tricks

### Disabling Screen Tining Features
Different operating systems have different ways to tint the screeen red-ish in the evening/ night.
While this may be nice for the eyes, it doesn't look good in the stream and recording.

This feature is known as "Night Shift", "Redshift" or similar.

#### GNOME
To turn off "Night Light":

- Open the **Control Center** on top bar ![](img/gnome-controlcenter-position.jpeg){ align="right", width="250" }
- Turn off **Night Light**

![](img/gnome-controlcenter-nightmode.jpeg){ align="right", width="250" }

Alternative if control center not found:

- Open **Settings**
- Click on **Displays**
- Toggle **Night Light** off

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#### KDE Plasma
To turn off "Night Color":

- Open **System Settings**
- Go to **Display and Monitor**
- Click on **Night Color**. <br> 4. Toggle off


#### macOS
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    Both "True Tone" and "Night Shift" need to be turned off!

To turn off "Night Shift" and "True Tone":

- Click the **Control Center** icon in the menu bar ![](img/macos26-controlcenter.jpeg){ align="right", width="250" }
- Select **Display**
- Turn **Night Shift** and **True Tone** off ![](img/macos26-displaysettings.jpeg){ align="right", width="250" }

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#### Sway (Wayland)
To turn off "Night Light":

- Utilize `wlsunset` or similar for configuration changes

#### Windows 10/11
To turn off "Night Light":

- Open **Settings**
- Click on **System**
- Select **Display**.
- Toggle **Night light** off


## Additional Tools/ Helpers

### Loudness Monitoring
Each stream should have loudness monitoring at `rtmp://ingest2.c3voc.de/relay/sX_loudness`.
Be aware of the delay since this is rendered from the stream!

### vplay
To debug voctomix sources and output during buildup, you could use https://github.com/voc/vplay.

Only use in a break and when connected via ethernet to the VOC network.
Too many TCP clients and a wonky network connection may stall the streaming and recording!
**Do not use via VPN or WLAN!**

If you only want loudness information, please use the loudness monitoring stream.