Using Skype to play online matches

Daffy501

Right lads myself and ratinakeg just gave this a test run.
It was pretty successful although a little slow.
I think the best thing to do is :

If you can get a game going remotly on darts pro then do so and just use skype to see the other persons board.


If you are unable to play remotly on darts pro for any reason then just use a local501 game on darts pro or N01 and the combination of seeing your opponents board and him/her being able to say what they scored will make it work out for us.

This is just an option for those of us who cant get dartspro working.
It will take some time to get up to the speed of remote dartspro but i think its well worth taking a look at

ratinakeg

Daffy501 wrote: »

Right lads myself and ratinakeg just gave this a test run.
It was pretty successful although a little slow.
I think the best thing to do is :

If you can get a game going remotly on darts pro then do so and just use skype to see the other persons board.


If you are unable to play remotly on darts pro for any reason then just use a local501 game on darts pro or N01 and the combination of seeing your opponents board and him/her being able to say what they scored will make it work out for us.

This is just an option for those of us who cant get dartspro working.
It will take some time to get up to the speed of remote dartspro but i think its well worth taking a look at

Its the best I've seen, it's easy enough to set up! Dartspro is getting on my nerves, might have to pull out of the league as I can't play against other players and I don't think everyody has a web cam!:( Skype is a bit slow but it's the best! By the way Daffy thashed me 3-0, them darts have made him better, that is all we need a better Daffy!;):P

ratinakeg

I'll give you a game soon Daffy, I'm gonna warm up for that by playing my mate now.;)

Daffy501

ok mate how about 7 of half past?

ratinakeg

Daffy501 wrote: »

ok mate how about 7 of half past?

I'll probably be half cut by then but feck it, yeah I'll play!:D

ciarraibhoy

Can you do conference calls on skype, so other people can watch the game?

Daffy501

yeah you can do calls and chats but i dont think you can do conference video calls but to be honest i have never tried it mate

ciarraibhoy

Daffy501 wrote: »

yeah you can do calls and chats but i dont think you can do conference video calls but to be honest i have never tried it mate

OK, just wondered. I know you can on yahoo, you just grant access to view your webcam to whoever requests it.

Daffy501

It would be great if we could do that with skype mate.

ratinakeg

Well Daffy and meself have dartspro working perfect now, so we had a match with both Skype and dartspro going at the same time. It's great that you can see your oppenant's throw and Skype is not really that slow! Maybe we can use this in the league when everybody gets sorted with dartspro!

Daffy501

Yeah it was actually great seeing your opponents darts going in while a remote game was in progress, it was no different or slower to playing as we were before on Dartpro

As i said before if you cant get dartpro working as a remote game we can still play matches by using skype.

Pm me if you need any details on it lads and i will do my best to help

Kingp35

My webcam is crap, it doesn't have zoom on it so I would have to have my laptop right up to my board for this to work.

ciarraibhoy

Kingp35 wrote: »

My webcam is crap, it doesn't have zoom on it so I would have to have my laptop right up to my board for this to work.

Get yerself one of these -

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Kingp35

Will invest when I get a couple of quid, I have a lot of outgoing money this month