The panel
The panel is the role’s keys: each shows its target’s name, presence and state. A short tap keeps a key on; held, it talks only while held. When someone talks to you, their key lights amber.
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One key works two ways: a press shorter than 300 ms latches, a longer one talks only while held. The bars on top show talk (red) and listen (green); the corner shows what the key may do: T, L or T+L.
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When someone talks to you, their key shows an amber frame and their name. Call signals with a sound, a banner and a flashing key, even when the other side isn’t paying attention. Reply always answers whoever talked to you last.
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The same panel on a small screen: the keys scroll, and the bottom bar with Mute, Call and Listen is always at hand. Put it on the home screen; the screen stays on while connected, and a call vibrates.
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The Volumes panel holds the master volume, a volume per key and the sidetone – your own voice in your headphones, locally, without delay. Audio devices picks the microphone and the output.
One key mutes the microphone on every path; the keys keep their state meanwhile.
Releases every talk key left on at once, from a panel or the admin.
1–9 and 0 for the keys, Shift to listen, Alt to call, M to mute.
Four bars show the connection’s quality; after a drop the panel reconnects by itself.
Step by step
No message, call or late web font ever shifts a key: what is under your finger stays there. A press landing in the wrong place would call the wrong person – an automated test checks this on every change.
It is what the key may do: T can only talk, L can only listen, T+L can do both. Left click (or a tap) always talks, right click (on touch screens Listen, then the key) always listens. Whatever a key may not do, the server refuses too.
On a short drop the latched keys are kept for 10 seconds and the panel reconnects by itself. If it isn’t back by then, everything is released and logged. A key held down is released at once.
Yes: the Speaker profile turns on the browser’s echo and noise suppression. If it still echoes, playback can dip while the role talks (Ducking while talking). With headphones (the Headset profile) the sound is cleanest.
Roles, groups, keys, fixed routes and presets in a password-protected admin. Every change applies at once.
Program feeds, priority and ducking, input gain, noise gate and an adaptive jitter buffer – all adjustable.
Contact
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