[1.0.3] mChat Broadcast

[kasimi]

mChat add-on
Broadcast

Inspired by Jupiter in the support section, this extension allows designated users to play a sound for all active mChat readers. It adds a new user-based permission Can broadcast to the mChat permissions tab to allow only certain users to use this feature. The extension respects each user's sound preferences. This means that if a user has disabled mChat sounds in the UCP or has sound switched off in mChat's navbar options, the broadcast is not played for that user.

Screenshots

• A new button next to the input field
  
  
   
• A popup displays all available sounds to play
  
  
   
• ACP settings to set up your sounds
  
  

Requirements

• PHP at least 5.4.7
• phpBB at least 3.2.0, also compatible with phpBB 3.3.0
• mChat at least 2.1.0

Download

This extension is only available to Donors. How to get access.

phpbb-ext-mchat-broadcast-1.0.3.zip

How to install, update and uninstall extensions: https://www.phpbb.com/extensions/installing/
Install path: ext/kasimi/mchatbroadcast/

Changelog

• 1.0.3 - 2020-06-04
  • Fixed displaying available broadcasts in popup
  • Fixed audio sometimes not playing
  • Quoted all YAML strings
  • Fixed button layout
• 1.0.2 - 2018-10-14
  • Prevent double plays
  • Don't live update edited & deleted messages if ACP option is off
  • Improved button layout on mobile
  • Removed empty src attribute (could cause browser warning)
  • Run JavaScript after mChat has been fully initialized
• 1.0.1 - 2018-10-12
  • Fixed normalizing relative broadcast URLs
• 1.0.0 - 2018-10-12
  • First release

[Jupiter]

Can't wait to install this and try it out when I get home from work today!!!

[kasimi]

First bug fix release 1.0.1 is already available...

[Jupiter]

A few things...

IN the mchat.broadcast.css file, I recommend changing the padding from 150px to 75px ... Otherwise the button on mobile is skinny and tall.

.mchat-broadcast-buttons {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
padding: 25px 75px;
}


Forgot the second thing...

Will it work on Mobile? RIght now I am not getting any audio when I click the button on my phone. Just on desktop.

[kasimi]

Do the regular mChat sounds work for you on mobile? Add, edit and delete sounds? This extension uses the same mechanisms so it should work the same.

[Jupiter]

I had not noticed until now, but no the sound do not work.

[lopoto]

in mchat rooms all the posts have disappeared, when I turned off the broadcast, everything returned to normal. So improvements are needed

[terry2]

1.0.1 works great with all the other mchat addons.

[Jupiter]

So here is what I have found after some testing...

Everything works from my point on the desktop. When I click the sound, it plays just the way I want. But things are different for other chatters.

When another user enters the chat. They hear the most recent sound played, even if I have not played that sound since they entered the chat. Actually I had not played a sound in at least 5 minutes and a new user entered chat, that person heard the sound right away. And that sound played over and over for them. It does not stop playing until I play a new sound. That new sound will play over and over for them as well. Just the one time for me.

So... strange behavior with the audio and other users.

[terry2]

i got sound on desktop and mobile and no effects on any other mchat addon i use (so far)