In-room announcements for VidyoRoom systems
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VidyoConnect for Desktop Release Notes
Version 25.2.0—November 2025
What's new in this release?
In-room announcements for VidyoRoom systems
- We’ve added support for in-room announcements in our VidyoRoom systems (VidyoRoom, VidyoConnect Room, and VidyoConnect Room SE).
- As part of the feature offering, the Desktop and WebRTC apps are used to send commands to the VidyoRoom systems that support the feature.
- VidyoRooms that support this feature will advertise the capability on the video tile.
- You can select the prompt, and the language to send that prompt in, and hit SEND to send the prompt.
- You’ll see prompts updating you of playback status on the VidyoRoom end.
- We give tenant admins the ability to set up this feature in our dedicated in-room announcement dashboard. You can access this from the desktop application if you’re logged in using tenant admin credentials.
- The access can be found in Settings under Preferences.
URL customization when inviting
- We’ve introduced a new feature in VidyoConnect Desktop where moderator of room can add URL parameters to the link prior to sharing. You’ll see this on your in-call toolbar under Invite to call > SMS, E-mail, and Link.
Hardware test
- Enabling this parameter will make the invitee go through our integrated hardware test wizard.
- You’ll notice the additional Strict parameter becomes available when you enable the Hardware Test parameter.
- Enabling Strict adds the hwtStrictMode = 1 URL parameter, and forces the recipients to successfully complete the hardware test prior to joining the call.
Join Via Web
- This parameter will force the invitees to join via web.
- This is the same as setting jvw=1 on the tenant admin portal.
Resolved issues
The following table lists the issue we have resolved in VidyoConnect for Desktop version 25.2.0.
VIDCOND-9014
- We’ve fixed an issue where participants may only see a black screen instead of the content that is being shared in the conference.
