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YaksterYakster Posts: 25,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

We're switching to Zoom for the vHerf effective immediately. The Google Hangouts links will still work, but we'll be on Zoom because the performance is better and it has better features.

We set it up so that you can join at any time, like the old Google Hangouts vHerf using a link or the meeting number and password.

If you're joining on a mobile device, you'll need to download and install the Zoom app (but you don't need to create an account), but if you're on a computer you can skip this step and just join Zoom from a browser window (after clicking through a few more steps). Joining from your browser window works best on Google Chrome.

Here's the Zoom Link: HERE

The meeting number is 2619860114 or 261-986-0114 and the meeting password is vHerf2020 You can join the meeting from the Zoom website or the app by typing in this meeting number and password if you don't want to use the link.

Meeting Number 2619860114
Password vHerf2020

If you're using the app, you may need to click ** Call via Device Audio** to be able or on a computer click "Connect Computer Audio" to be able to hear and be heard on the vHerf.

I'll gladly bomb you Tuesday for an Opus today. 

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 25,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In the corner case where you're running a Windows computer in S-Mode and you don't want to take it out of S-Mode, you can follow the instructions below to allow audio to work in the Edge browser. Link to the website where I found these Instructions

    You'll need to upgrade your Edge browser to the newest version, which is based on Chrome. Your Windows 10 computer in S-Mode will allow this installation.

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

    Once you've upgraded Edge, then you can install an extension that will tell websites you're using Chrome, even though you're using Edge. Since the new Edge is based on Chromium, the same engine behind Google Chrome, Zoom works perfectly. (and so does my daughter's SmartMusic.com site that requires Chrome too)

    The extension is called User-Agent Switcher and is here:

    https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ipacohcfiahhblhbpdnnmnolcakgooci?hl=en-US

    Install the extension, and you'll see a new icon in the top right area of Edge. You can click it, and select Chrome from the second row of choices.

    Refresh the Zoom window and it should work!

    I'll gladly bomb you Tuesday for an Opus today. 

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  • PatrickbrickPatrickbrick Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you Chris!

    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".  Winston Churchill.
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  • ForMudForMud Posts: 2,336 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice...x2 on the thank you!!

  • avengethisavengethis Posts: 5,686 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Right on Chris! Thank you

    Team O'Donnell FTW!

    "I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
  • avengethisavengethis Posts: 5,686 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just hopped on such to check it out and stubble was checking in as well. Worked great for the minute we were on.

    Team O'Donnell FTW!

    "I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
  • PatrickbrickPatrickbrick Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This is, in my non professional opinion, a much better platform.

    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".  Winston Churchill.
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  • VegasFrankVegasFrank Posts: 16,586 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You freaking rock Chris, and since you ended your buying freeze, you must be getting low. My missiles have been redirected to your vector.

    Don't look ↑
  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks Chris!

    Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.
  • YaksterYakster Posts: 25,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Working pretty good, lots of people popping in and checking it out.

    There's a limit of 100 people in the meeting.

    I'll gladly bomb you Tuesday for an Opus today. 

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  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 19,043 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Dropped in for a minute--terrifying. Deer-in-the-headlights syndrome for me, same things happen on a phone for me. Anyway, good to see Chris briefly. Autism sucks.

  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sorry I missed you Edward.
    I am actually much nicer in person. 😀

    Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.
  • PatrickbrickPatrickbrick Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Better Chris than me, I really would've freaked you you. Edward you are one of two people I must meet in person before I die.

    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".  Winston Churchill.
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  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 10,932 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    Dropped in for a minute--terrifying. Deer-in-the-headlights syndrome for me, same things happen on a phone for me. Anyway, good to see Chris briefly. Autism sucks.

    Would love to chat with you Edward.

    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    Dropped in for a minute--terrifying. Deer-in-the-headlights syndrome for me, same things happen on a phone for me. Anyway, good to see Chris briefly. Autism sucks.

    Tell them to put their clothes back on. No one needs to see that.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'll have to take a look one of these days.
    I'm not a fan of video chats, cause I have AD look there goes a rabbit HD and can't hardly sit still for very long. On a video chat, that means moving things around.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yakster Does it cost or is it a free service?

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • PatrickbrickPatrickbrick Posts: 7,722 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2020

    @0patience said:
    @Yakster Does it cost or is it a free service?

    It's a free service for everyone on the forum.

    "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give".  Winston Churchill.
    MOW badge received.
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Will it work without a camera?
    No camera on my confuser. Besides, no one wants to see this ugly face.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • YaksterYakster Posts: 25,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think so.

    I'll gladly bomb you Tuesday for an Opus today. 

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  • CharlieHeisCharlieHeis Posts: 8,144 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Awesome. Thanks for doing the leg work on this Chris. I'll try to figure it out sometime this weekend.

  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It works really well, especially since my computer doesn't have a camera. LOL!
    Next time I'll have to either use the tablet or laptop, if I can find them.

    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
  • YaksterYakster Posts: 25,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Join any way you can, Tony.

    I'll gladly bomb you Tuesday for an Opus today. 

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  • cigarexplorercigarexplorer Posts: 957 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Jumped on and was having video and audio issues. Finally got it fixed. Thanks for the platform, Chris.

  • YaksterYakster Posts: 25,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The link to the Zoom vHerf is in my signature (which you can see in desktop mode on mobile devices) and on my profile page.

    I'll gladly bomb you Tuesday for an Opus today. 

                  Join us on the New Zoom vHerf (Meeting # 2619860114 Password vHerf2020 )
  • avengethisavengethis Posts: 5,686 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hopping on now for a smoke if anybody is free.

    Team O'Donnell FTW!

    "I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
  • TNBigfoot68TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭✭✭

    jumping on to check it out

    I was born a fool, and just got bigger!
  • rsherman24rsherman24 Posts: 6,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @0patience said:
    It works really well, especially since my computer doesn't have a camera. LOL!
    Next time I'll have to either use the tablet or laptop, if I can find them.

    @Patrickbrick really wants to see you Tony

  • YaksterYakster Posts: 25,527 ✭✭✭✭✭

    On

    I'll gladly bomb you Tuesday for an Opus today. 

                  Join us on the New Zoom vHerf (Meeting # 2619860114 Password vHerf2020 )
  • BKDogBKDog Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I checked it out and everything seemed to work okay. Maybe I can join when I have the time finally, because I really disliked Google.

    "Love is a dung heap, Betty and I am but a c.o.c.k. that climbs upon it to crow."
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