Ringingroom.com provides a virtual belfry environment for ringers to ring together at a distance.

I have adapted Graham John's Handbell Manager to work handbell-like controllers with ringingroom.

(This is a "beta" version, and has a known safety of use "issue" - see the underlined warning below -  Graham John is not responsible for these alterations)

Handbell Manager works with ActionXL controllers (available from his website) to provide a substitute for handbells. 

It was originally designed to work with Abel, Beltower and other desktop simulators. It runs on Windows computers.

NB this program will NOT work without the ActionXL controllers.

Using the controllers, with ringers on each pair of bells, it is now possible to ring handbell performances which meet the Central Council framework criteria for peals.

You must first download and install Handbell Manager from the Handbell Manager website.

The program is attached in this zip file.

Unzip and place it with your other handbell manager files.

1) Open your browser and go to ringingroom.com and open a room. 

WARNING:  This MUST be done first, because this version of the program sends keystrokes to whatever program currently has focus (i.e is the active window on the screen) 

This version of the program does not protect you against misuse - if you operate the controllers with another program's window open it will get the keystrokes, which could have unexpected, inconvenient, possibly catastrophic effects, if those keystrokes make the program do something unexpected.  No liability can be accepted for any such misuse.

2) Open the modified Handbell manager for ringingroom.

3) The Options are now set to ring the pair at the bottom of the ringingroom screen by default.  (Ringing room lets you move all the bells around)

{Otherwise the bells you want to ring can be defined explicitly, so
if you want to ring 3 & 4, set
Handbell 1 backstroke and Handstroke to 3
Handbell 2 backstroke and Handstroke to 4  }

The buttons perform actions that are useful in ringingroom.

4) Bring ringingroom in your browser back into focus (the controllers won't work until you do)

5) You can now ring the bells

6) To avoid sending keystrokes to other programs you are using, close Handbell Manager for Ringingroom  before closing the browser page.

Let me know if there are any problems.

RHJ 6.4.2020