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Beacon dev forum or discord?

Hi All,   Is there someplace for Beacon dev questions?  The roll20 discord that is linked in the beacon docs seems to be just publishers and such. Thanks
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I think if you signed up for the Beacon Beta, you should have been given a link to a roll20 discord channel.  Not sure if I should(or can) post the link publicly or not...
Filmari said: Hi All,   Is there someplace for Beacon dev questions?  The roll20 discord that is linked in the beacon docs seems to be just publishers and such. Thanks That is probably the correct discord, under the "Community Sheet Development" section there are a few channels just for sheet devs and more specifically beacon sheet devs.
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Just to be clear, are you asking about using a specific Beacon sheet, or from the perspective of someone who wants to author a Beacon sheet?
Hi Keith,   Thanks for the replay.  Author a beacon sheet.  I've got the sample sheet working locally but I can't seem to get it to work in the sandbox.  Was looking for any pointers that others may have come across. Thanks!
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It's been like 6+ months since I last experimented with Beacon... but these are the notes I took that worked for me regarding Beacon to dev sandbox access; From project folder, run from terminal;     - "npm install @roll20-official/beacon-sdk@latest" to install beacon sdk     - include info for beacon sandbox in your sheet.json;         {             "advanced": true,             "advancedPort": 7620         }          - "npm run sandbox" will sync with roll20 sandbox on port 7620 Hope that helps.  Also, not 100% sure, but you may have to get permission from Andrew (or similar roll20 staff) as well in order for the sandbox-beacon to be allowed.  Probably best to post in the discord group though.
Thanks but I did those steps.  Maybe I'm not allowed then.  I did get an email saying I was accepted to the beta.  Which discord group though?  I tried the roll20 group but they said that was for marketing and such. Thanks!
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It's probably the same discord group link you received when you signed up for the beta.&nbsp; I agree that it seems more geared toward Roll20's marketplace and 3rd party publishers, etc. <a href="https://discord.gg/rollthru" rel="nofollow">https://discord.gg/rollthru</a> That said, there's a couple developer channels there as well <a href="https://discord.com/channels/557978219815501824/1223340774452756591" rel="nofollow">https://discord.com/channels/557978219815501824/1223340774452756591</a> where you should be able to get help with Beacon.
Thanks.&nbsp; I'll try asking again in the waiting-room.&nbsp; thanks for the replies!