In this guide, I will show you how to use Audio Players in ConnectedRoom. Audio players allow you to play goal horns and homerun horns in realtime when your team scores.
Play audio in the app. You can then use Bluetooth to stream it to a speaker.
Use one of your scoreboards to play audio.
Cast audio to a Cast Ready device like Google Nest or Google Home.
The app audio player allows you to play audio through the device that runs the app. The app is located at app.connectedroom.io and can be opened on any device with a Web Browser. You could then use Bluetooth to stream the audio to a speaker or soundbar.
In the app, you can enable the audio player by opening the audio panel and pressing play. Please note that pressing play won't produce any sound; you need to trigger a test in order to test if it's working. When exiting test mode, audio will be played there if a goal or homerun happen.
Open audio panel
Press play
Close the panel and trigger a test
When using a phone to run the app, the app should not be put in the background. Web apps have limitations that prevent audio to be played when in the background. We recommend using a Laptop or any other device that will not go to sleep.
iOS audio not playing while in Silent Mode. Make sure that Silent Mode is disabled
iOS audio stop working after sometime due to limitation that Web apps have on this platform.
We will be working on a Native App for audio players this summer. For now, we recommend using something else than a phone to play audio.
If you have scoreboards that are always up during games, we offer a solution to play the audio through one or more of your scoreboards.
In the app, when you open the audio panel, you have the option to select one of your scoreboards to play audio.
Open the audio panel
Click select devices
Select one or more of your scoreboards as audio host
Scoreboard will display a popup to interact with
A popup will be displayed asking you to interact with the scoreboard once every refresh. You can just tap/click/press your scoreboard and audio will be enabled.
It may happen that we trigger a refresh on scoreboards sometimes. It is very rare, but we need to do this when we release new feature to update your scoreboard.
If you own Cast-Ready devices like Google Nest Mini and other Google devices, you can use the app to cast to these devices. That removes the need of using Bluetooth and provides a direct way to make your device play the audio.
In the app, when you open the audio panel, you should be able to see a Google Cast button. It will only work on Chrome browsers due to Google limiting usage of this library to their proprietary browser. I did not test it, but I also got reports that it doesn't work on Chrome on iOS.
Open the audio panel
Scroll down to Google Cast integration
Click the Cast button (only on Chrome)
Select your Google device in the list
Close the panel and trigger a test
When using a phone to run the app, the app should not be put in the background. Web apps have limitations that prevent audio to be played when in the background. We recommend using a Laptop or any other device that will not go to sleep.
Chrome on iOS reported not to be working for Google Cast (untested)
We will be working on a Native App for audio players this summer. For now, we recommend using something else than a phone to play audio.
By default, goal horn plays for the home team. You can configure it to play for both teams, your team, away team or home team.
You can limit the duration of music being played. Each horn has a mark where music starts. Limit the maximum length in seconds that will be played past that mark.
Baseball horns will only play for Homeruns (it might change soon). You need to have music enabled for it to work because all horns contain music.