Phones

Phones

Phones need no app: they use the web browser. The phone and the computer must be on the same Wi-Fi network.

Queueing songs

Scan the QR code on the console (top right) or on the TV while nothing is playing. The page has four tabs:

• SEARCH: find songs, see suggestions and recent searches, browse artists; Select queues a song, Priority plays it next.
• QUEUE: what is playing and coming up. Your songs shows the songs this phone queued, how many are ahead and roughly how long until each one; Tonight's best shows the scores.
• LISTS: playlists and favourites; import a YouTube playlist.
• REMOTE: pause, skip, scoring, lyrics and their timing, vocals, key and tempo, volumes, the microphone controls, and the phone microphone.

Type your name in the singer box once and it is shown next to your songs.

Phones are told apart by their address on the network. Two phones behind the same router address (some guest networks do this) count as one.

A phone as a microphone

1. On the phone page, open REMOTE → Use this phone as a microphone.
2. The browser warns about the certificate the first time. Choose to continue (on iPhone: Show Details → visit this website; on Android Chrome: Advanced → Proceed). Browsers only allow the microphone on secure pages, and a home network cannot have a certificate that phones trust, so YTKTV makes its own.
3. Type a name, press Start microphone, and allow the microphone.
4. On the computer, open Mixer and choose Phone: your name as the input of a channel.

The page shows which channel the phone is on, how much sound is buffered and the network delay. Keep the page open and the screen on while singing.

What to expect. The voice is sent uncompressed, and the phone's call processing (echo cancellation, noise suppression, automatic gain) is switched off. Even so, a phone on Wi-Fi is always a little behind a wired microphone, typically 40 to 120 ms depending on the phone and the router. A phone that disconnects stays chosen on its channel and is back when it reconnects.

Phone microphones have not been tested on many phones yet. If yours does not connect, please open an issue with the phone model and browser.

Games, glow sticks and service

• GAMES (bottom bar): the same fourteen party games as the console, each with its own screen. You play under the name you typed in REMOTE → Your name. In liar's dice your dice show only on your phone (hold Hold to peek); the TV shows everyone's at the reveal. In King of Singers, sing with your name on the song: your score card counts for your match.
• ✨ Glow stick (REMOTE): the whole screen lights up in the colours of the TV's edge lights. Tap to stop.
• 🛎 Service (REMOTE, in rooms run by a YTKTV Desk): call the staff or order from the menu.

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