Extend Welcome Message Server

[anprdev]

I wondering if it is possible to extend the Welcome Message of the server in Jamulus.ini.

Let say about 1024 characters more?

Thanks for answer
Roland

[chrisrimple]

I wasn't aware that there's a length limit, and I've had long welcome messages. See the "My Server Config - Cloud (Debian)" section of my Remote Band Rehearsals doc, specifically the modifications to the jamulus.service file.

[anprdev]

I wasn't aware that there's a length limit, and I've had long welcome messages. See the "My Server Config - Cloud (Debian)" section of my Remote Band Rehearsals doc, specifically the modifications to the jamulus.service file.

Nice Document and Setup Chris. Very nice read.
About the message length.
I run the Server on a Raspberry Pi 5 8GB and SSD with GUI because I like to have things visual.

I'm busy with a music player where users can mute instruments so the page need some short manual how it is working.
That's the reason of a longer HTML page.
I made the HTML page shorter.
The player is not ready yet and I wondering how it will go on the page when I need more space to explain how it is working.
Maybe I must use rdica advise to rebuilt it myself what I don't prefer.

[rdica]

For grins and giggles I tested a server rebuild, increasing both CHAT_TEXT defines to 3000 and 3200 respectively. I then set a welcome message of 2500 characters. Restarted the server to use the new binary. Had a client join and no welcome message was displayed. I suspect that clients would also need to support the changes. I have not rebuilt the client to test this hypothesis.

[anprdev]

For grins and giggles I tested a server rebuild, increasing both CHAT_TEXT defines to 3000 and 3200 respectively. I then set a welcome message of 2500 characters. Restarted the server to use the new binary. Had a client join and no welcome message was displayed. I suspect that clients would also need to support the changes. I have not rebuilt the client to test this hypothesis.

I think also that the client has to get some changes in this.
But very nice you are doing this.
If it is not working I short my html page and hope that users still understand what I'm saying.

Thanks for your effort.

[anprdev]

For grins and giggles I tested a server rebuild, increasing both CHAT_TEXT defines to 3000 and 3200 respectively. I then set a welcome message of 2500 characters. Restarted the server to use the new binary. Had a client join and no welcome message was displayed. I suspect that clients would also need to support the changes. I have not rebuilt the client to test this hypothesis.

I think also that the client has to get some changes in this. But very nice you are doing this. If it is not working I short my html page and hope that users still understand what I'm saying.

Thanks for your effort.

When I check in the source the client is taking the same default value from global MAX_LEN_CHAT_TEXT

[iamthechrisb]

@anprdev The default 1600 character limit, from src/global.h:

// Maximum length of fader tag and text message strings (Since for chat messages
// some HTML code is added, we also have to define a second length which includes
// this additionl HTML code. Right now the length of the HTML code is approx. 66
// characters. Here, we add some headroom to this number)
#define MAX_LEN_FADER_TAG           16
#define MAX_LEN_CHAT_TEXT           1600
#define MAX_LEN_CHAT_TEXT_PLUS_HTML 1800

I suppose you could alter that and rebuild it yourself.

Note -- while this could be extended via changing the code and rebuilding -- this extends the length of udp messages and will start to cause problems. Even at the current max length some equipment / providers will have problems when fully used.

[anprdev]

Ok I have shorten the html Page. Was hoping that there was a setting without rebuild Thanks for answer. Roland Op 2-3-2025 om 22:10 schreef rdica:

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