GCW Recipes for opening a Talky video session and
inviting a friend to participate:
These examples use Talky.io to conduct a video call. You can use
a simple URL to start a Talky session by simply adding a name like
my_unique_talky_session to the end of the talky home URL.
Talky's pages have ads that will steal your clicks and send
you to a download page that you should avoid. Use an ad blocker to
remove these deceptive ads with their invisible borders that
overlay the Talky "Join" button, for example - very tricky. Once
the ad blocker clears the way, you should be able to tweak the
macros below and get them to work for you.
Each new line in the macro description describes a new command or
send string indicated by the pipe character in the macro.
A Simple opening of a Talky session (video call):
This scheme presumes an earlier visit where a facilitator set the
permission to allow the web cam and microphone to be used whenever
visiting the talky site. The position of the Join button depends
on your screen resolution and the browser being maximized. (Use
#{up} to do so [Win-Up Arrow] if necessary)
- Use an ad blocker to avoid click stealing by ads appearing in
the Talky website.
- Use this macro to open a talky session: {R}https://talky.io/jamjolu_gcw|{sleep}3500|{click
1342,1025}
- Open the talky.io URL that has a unique talk session name
(/jamjolu_gcw) appended,
- Followed by a 3.5 second delay,
- Followed by clicking the “Join” button which will open the
video call window.
Open the Talky session, and then email a potential Talky
participant the Talky link:
Where the unique talky session in this case is "jamjolu_gcw "-
yours should be different - then send an email to
somebody@gmail.com - your recipient will be different. Note that
the delays may need adjusting to match the performance of your
equipment, and the click targets may need adjusting to match your
screen resolution.
- 1. Issue this macro: {R}https://talky.io/jamjolu_gcw|{sleep}3500|{click
1342,1025}|{R}https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox|{sleep}3500|{click
222,325}|{sleep}3500|fid.carnuba@gmail.com|{sleep}1500|{click
1102,561}|GCW is sending a talky
link|{tab}|https://talky.io/jamjolu_gcw|{click
1164,1086}|{Sleep}1000|^w|{sleep}500|{enter}|{---open talky,
email fid.carnuba}
- Open the talky.io URL that has a unique talk
session (/jamjolu_gcw) appended onto the URL,
- Followed by a 3.5 second delay,
- Followed by clicking the “Join” button which
will open the video call window, This scheme presumes an
earlier visit where a facilitator set the permission to
allow the web cam and microphone to be used whenever
visiting the talky site. The position of the Join button
depends on your screen resolution and the browser being
maximized. (Use #{up} to do so [Win-Up Arrow] if necessary)
- The next {R} command opens the gmail app, (this
assumes the Google browser as default with a user logged
into an account already). This URL was copied by
clicking the link to the Gmail app.
- Followed by a 3.5 second delay,
- Followed by clicking at the “Compose” button,
- Followed by a 3.5 second delay,
- Followed by issuing the recipient’s email addr:
fid.carnuba@gmail.com,
- Followed by a 1.5 second delay,
- Followed by a click into the “Subject” field,
- Followed by issuing this subject: “GCW is
sending a talky link”,
- Followed by the tab character,
- Followed by the talky video chat URL:
https://talky.io/jamjolu_gcw|,
- Followed by clicking the “Send” button,
- Followed by a 1 second delay,
- Followed by the ^w keyboard shortcut to close
the Gmail tab,
- Followed by a ½ second delay,
- Followed by the {enter} key to acknowledge
leaving the page.
- Followed by a comment.