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Switching Google Hangout Campaigns?

How does one switch between campaigns inside Google Hangouts Roll20 app? When I first join Hangouts it prompts me which Campaign I want to open. However there doesn't seem to be a way a switch between campaigns inside Hangouts once you have loaded unless you wait 2-3hrs with nobody in hangouts then launching Hangouts again to get that 1st choice option. We want to use the same URL from week to week, but we don't want to go inside Roll20 itself every time to launch Hangouts to get a brand new URL.
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Stephen Koontz
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The way Roll20 uses Google Hangouts is in a very narrow way, in order to provide different audio / visual options to our tabletop users. It's not intended to be a frame to access all of Roll20's functionality like campaign management, including switching between campaigns. The GM of the campaign can send out google invites. However, for the GM to switch he'll need to do it via the Roll20 campaign screen. John B. said: We want to use the same URL from week to week, but we don't want to go inside Roll20 itself every time to launch Hangouts to get a brand new URL. Hangouts to my knowledge aren't designed to be persistent and so you're always going to have a different Google Hangout url. If you want the same url I'd suggest using the native Roll20 web app. Since Tokbox switched to WebRTC I think it works very reliably and is my personal favorite option.
Thank you for the reply Steve K. There seems to be some amount of time before it auto logs you out of Roll20 once you leave the hangouts. Then when you rejoin after X amount of time has passed it will ask you which campaign you would like to load. I was wondering if you happen to know how long X might be?
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Stephen Koontz
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I didn't set up the Google Hangouts functionality with Roll20, so I don't know for sure. But I'd highly suspect that's when the Google Hangout stops existing. I.E. if the hangout is empty for x minutes it vanishes. So, if you come back before that time it says, welcome back!, and puts you back in the hangout it assumes you want but if the hangouts been deleted for inactivity it will give you the newcomer experience.
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The Aaron
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John B. said: We want to use the same URL from week to week, but we don't want to go inside Roll20 itself every time to launch Hangouts to get a brand new URL. For my own groups, we setup a google calendar event with a hangout and join from there. So far, that URL has been persistent.