Guide to Using Mumble 1.2

Mumble Admin Functions

  1. Register User
  2. Add Admin User
  3. Advanced Group Permissions
  4. Channel Setup
  5. Access Tokens
  6. Create Admin Only Channel

Initial Mumble Setup

  1. Voice Setup
  2. Expert Mode
  3. Audio Output Setings

Advanced Setup

  1. Runing Multiple Copies of Mumble
  2. Auto Connect To Server on Launch

Common Issues

  1. Teammates speaking in my game only come out of the left or right speaker.
  2. Volume of teammates in game is too quiet.
  3. When I speak the game volume decreases.
  4. When people talk the sound sutters or is broken up.
  5. I want to maximize my settings for lowest latency.
  6. Server won't show up in Connect list.
  7. Allow ' in channel or username.

Customizing Mumble

  1. Add a skin to Mumble.

    2. Check out our free mumble skin!

    mumble skin

Mumble Admin Functions

  1. Register User

    All users who want to have any type of admin rights need to register. Guest users do not have to register but they can if they want to be cool.

    To register a user right-click the user when they are logged in and choose Register. Or have them self register by doing the same.

  2. Group ACL Overview

Groups Access Controls are applied to channels. If you set a group access on a channel it only applies to that channel and sub channels (if inheritable flag is set). Be careful which channel is selected when editing the ACL permissions for that channel.

  1. Add Admin User

By default you everyone who logs into Mumble will be a guest user. To make some users admin users you need to register the username with the server (see above), and then add the user to the admin group. (or other group you create with elevated priviliges.)

Add User to Group

Select the channel you want to assign privileges for, in this case the root/top cannel is selected. Then choose Edit ACL.

edit mumble acl

Check the advanced configuration box.

group advanced configuration

This brings up the ACL and Groups tabs. In this case we want to add an existing registered user to the admin group.

Choose Groups Tab, then select the group you want to add a user to. You can alternatively create a new group by typing the name in the dropdown box and hitting enter.

add user to group

 

Type in a username that is already registered in your server, then click Add. See the Registered Users option in Server menu for a list of all registered users.

add user to mumble admin group

 

Now you can login with user you added and you will have full admin capabilities. You don't have to use SuperUser login anymore.

Channel Setup

To add a channel login as a user who is in the admin group. By default this is only the SuperUser account.

Right Click on an existing channel under which you want the new channel to be created.

add channel to mumble

Type in a channel name, optional description and click OK. The temporary flag will delete the channel later.

create new mumble channel

New channel is created:

new mumble channel is created

You can make sub channels the same way. Just be careful which channel is selected when adding a channel.

make mumble sub channel

 

Access Tokens (Channel Passwords)

Mumble does not have channel passwords per se. However it does have Access Tokens as of version 1.2 and these can be used like channel password.

Essentially how it works is you create an access token as a user, and that is sent to the server when you connect. If you access token matches the name of a group then you are assigned to that group automatically. You don't have to be manually setup in that group.

The group name for these type of groups is in the format: #groupname

For instance if you wanted to create a group for Team123 so that only they can enter their channel you would make a group called #Team123 and then assign permissions on the channel for that group. See the group permissions section for more info on that part.

Advanced Group Permissions

Coming soon...

Create Admin Only Channel

Coming soon...

 

Auto Connect To Server on Launch

Coming soon...

 

Initial Mumble Setup

Voice Setup

Audio Wizard

For Windows users you will want to use these settings:

mumble audio wizard

Set this to the lowest value unless you have problems. This helps Mumble give lower latency communication compared to other chat programs.

mumble audio wizard 2

 

Expert Mode

To see more features and tweak your settings you can enable Expert Mode under the User Interface Tab:

mumble expert mode

Audio Output Setings

There are a few settings you may want to take note of:

  • Other Applications - This setting lowers the volume of applications when mumble is active such as a game you are playing. This would make it easier to hear people talking on mumble, but you may not want this.
  • Default Jitter Buffer - This controls how long your sound card waits before starting to play incoming data. (see here for more info) Set this to a low value unless you have problems with your internet connection being unstable and the sound being uneven when people talk, then raise it. A low value will give less lag in talking to people.
  • Output Delay - Similar to the Jitter Buffer, a lower value will give better performance and less lag when talking, but raise it if you have problems with stuttering etc
  • Positional Audio - Turn this on to hear people in game coming from the direction they are at in game.
  • Minimum Volume - When positional audio is active this will lower the volume of players the further away they are, giving a better sense of their 3D position in game. You may prefer to turn this to 100%, it's up to you.

mumble audio output settings

Advanced Setup

Running Multiple Copies of Mumble

  1. Make a copy of your Mumble folder, eg Mumble2.
  2. Create a text file in the root of folder and name it mumble.ini. Mumble will see this and now store all settings locally in the mumble.ini file in the Mumble2 directory. You will have to setup all settings again for this new copy.
  3. Run your first copy of Mumble.exe..
  4. Kill the dbus-daemon process via the Task Manager.
  5. Run your second copy of mumble.exe.
  6. You may wish to create a shortcut to both copies of mumble and give it a name you can remember. (I put links to both of my mumbles in my quick-launch tool bar.)
  7. Each time you start mumble, it starts dbus-daemon, so you will need to kill it each time to open a 2nd copy.

Now you can setup key binds in the 2nd copy of Mumble so that you can use Push-to-Talk to speak on different servers with two copies of mumble. Just connect each copy to a different server.

You can run more than 2 copies if needed in the same way.

 

Untested method: Just rename dbus-daemon.exe in the Mumble Program Files folder, make a new, blank file named dbus-daemon.exe.

 


Allow ' in channel or usernames

add \\' to these lines in the config:

channelname=[ \\-=\\w\\#\\[\\]\\{\\}\\(\\)\\@\\|\\']+

username=[-=\\w\\[\\]\\{\\}\\(\\)\\@\\|\\.\\']+

 

Server will not show in browser list

1. You cannot change the password for a name that was already registered, but to register again you need to change the registername, which acts as a "login" to the superserver. If your server does not show up, make a new registername in your murmur.ini file. Also be sure that the password and url fields are there.

2. Need to comment out the serverpassword

# Password to join server
#serverpassword=