Suggestion: play sound when it's your turn when the tab is active too

Ewan

I currently have the option Play a sound when it's your turn in one of your games enabled, but the sound only triggers when the tab is not active. As I'm using multiple browser windows, I always have to make sure to switch to another tab before switching to another window. Can you make it so that the sound also plays when the tab is active? I'm using firefox by the way, maybe it works differently on other browsers.

Ewan

Currently my settings are not saved, the sound notification box remains disabled after reloading the page.

coyotte508

@Ewan said in Suggestion: play sound when it's your turn when the tab is active too:

Currently my settings are not saved, the sound notification box remains disabled after reloading the page.

That particular issue was just fixed.

Concerning the broader issue - we don't want to have too many settings and sub settings. Especially since sound notifications don't work well across all browsers, like chrome, which has protections against playing sounds unprompted.

It will depend on how many other players have this issue.

Ewan

Concerning the broader issue - we don't want to have too many settings and sub settings.

Fair enough. For those interested, I've written a small JavaScript snippet that plays the notification sound every time the counter increases. It can be loaded in e.g. Violentmonkey:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Sound on your turn
// @namespace   Violentmonkey Scripts
// @match       https://www.boardgamers.space/*
// @grant       none
// @version     1.0
// @author      -
// @description Plays notification sound whenever the active games counter increases
// ==/UserScript==

function playSoundOnFirstActiveGame() {
  let gameCountNode = document.getElementById("active-game-count");
  window.currentActiveGames = parseInt(gameCountNode.innerHTML);

  let sound = document.getElementById("sound-notification")

  window.activeGamesObserver = new MutationObserver(() => {
    let newActiveGames = parseInt(gameCountNode.innerHTML);
    if(newActiveGames >= window.currentActiveGames) {sound.play();}
    window.currentActiveGames = newActiveGames;
  })

  activeGamesObserver.observe(gameCountNode, {childList: true, attributes: true})
}

setTimeout(playSoundOnFirstActiveGame, 3000);

coyotte508

@Ewan Very nice :)