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Vivox Core SDK
  • Overview
  • Before you begin
  • Get started
  • Release notes
  • Developer Guide
    • Client SDK basics
    • Channels
      • Channel name criteria
      • Channel types
      • Echo channels
      • Positional channels
      • Volume differences
      • Channel identifiers for large scale games
      • Participant events
      • Channel webhooks
      • Join a channel
      • Leave a channel
      • Kick a user from a channel
      • Manage session groups
      • Audio injection
      • Methods for setting audio levels
      • Derumbler
      • Automatic connection recovery
    • Presence management
    • Messaging
    • Manage audio
    • Couch co-op
    • Android app development
    • iOS app development
    • macOS app development
    • Windows app development
    • Real-time recording
    • Speech-to-text audio transcription
    • Text-to-speech
    • Troubleshooting
  • Reference
  • Privacy overview
  1. Vivox Core SDK documentation

Channel name criteria

Understand naming criteria for Vivox channels.
Read time 2 minutes
Last updated 8 months ago

When you create a channel name, the following criteria apply:
  • Maximum of 200 characters
  • Use only the following characters:

Alphanumerics

0-9, A-Z, a-z

0x30-0x39, 0x41-0x5A, 0x61-0x7A

Exclamation mark
' ! '
0x21
Open parenthesis
' ( '
0x28
Close parenthesis
' ) '
0x29
Plus
' + '
0x2B
Minus
' - '
0x2D
Period
' . '
0x2E
Equals
' = '
0x3D
Underscore
' _ '
0x5F
Tilde
' ~ '
0x7E
Percent
' % '
0x7F
Note
You can only use the percent sign for URL encoding. Follow the percent sign by two uppercase hex characters.
Note
Channel names can have mixed case for clarity. However, do not use different case versions of the same channel. For example, do not use "MyChannel" and "mychannel" at the same time, or audio connection issues can occur.

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