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description: 'A place for anyone connected to the box to share'
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sidebar_position: 3
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---
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# Local Chat
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There is one local chat on your Butter Box that is open to anyone who is
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able to join the box. If they can open the portal, they can open the chat
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and say or post anything they want. Depending on your use case, moderation
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capabilities may be important.
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First, let's look at what you can and can't do with this local chat.
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✅ **You Can**<br/>
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* Host videos up to 5 GB PDFs, images, record, audio messages, share
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pre-recorded audio messages or music
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* Download the full chat or any individual piece of content or media that
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people have shared
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❌ **You Cannot**<br/>
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* Use the chat to talk with people who are not connected to the Butter Box
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* Get notifications when there are new posts or messages
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* See the messages unless you are connected to the Butter Box
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## Moderation
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A Butter Box offers moderation features for the local chat. In order to
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access these features, you need to login as the admin of the room.
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### Become the Admin
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### Logout as Guest
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When you open the local chat, you are assigned a guest identity. First
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logout of the account that was created for you.
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### Login as Admin
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Login to the `butterbox-admin` account. Username and password are both
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`butterbox-admin`.
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### Change Admin Password
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Visit your user profile to change the password. At your discretion, you may
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also wish to change your display name so that other users will recognize
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you.
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### Moderation Features
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Once you are an admin, you have access to the following features:
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* **Set a message timer**
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* **Delete messages**
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* **Promote members to moderator or admin**
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* **Kick members out.**
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* Keep in mind that someone can simply rejoin as a new guest if they
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reconnect to the box
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* **Delete the room.**
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* Warning: If you delete the room, you will no longer have a local chat on
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your Butter Box. To get one back, you will have to flash a new image of
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the Butter Box software to your SD card.
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## Say Even More—Direct Messages and Private Rooms
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In addition to the local chat, you can create any number of private rooms
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from the same interface.
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### Things To Know
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* Each room will have it's own QR code.
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* Private rooms are not discoverable from the Butter Box portal.
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* If you create a private room, you have to share the QR code physically to
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whomever you want to join **who is also connected to the box.**
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* Every private chat that you are part of, will be easy for **you** to
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find. They will all show up in your room list.
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### Instructions
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You can create a private room from two different places in the message board
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interface.
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### Open from Avatar Modal
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Tap on your avatar in the top bar. Select **new room.**
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### Open from Room List
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Your room list is accessible from your profile page. Once here, select **new
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room.**
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<figure><img src="/img/docs/Screenshot 2026-01-20 at 1.42.17 PM.png" alt=""/><figcaption></figcaption></figure>
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