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5.8.6 Free OpenSource
BeeBEEP project activities
Here you can read all the latest BeeBEEP project updates.
Last updated: Jan 18th, 2026 - 21:47
https://sourceforge.net/p/beebeep/activity/feed
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Marco Mastroddi - Sunday, 11 January 2026 - 09:33وعليكم السلام -
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Anonymous - Sunday, 11 January 2026 - 09:33سلام -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 08 January 2026 - 22:26Thank you... -
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Marco Mastroddi - Wednesday, 07 January 2026 - 10:13Hello.
Please disable the option in Settings - Notification - Always open chat on new message.
When a new window is created, the focus switch on new window.
You can check the option "Raise previously opened chat on new message" instead. -
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Anonymous - Wednesday, 07 January 2026 - 03:11Message Creation Hijacked -
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Anonymous - Sunday, 21 December 2025 - 19:32Cool, thanks -
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Anonymous - Saturday, 20 December 2025 - 11:10Hello to you! Probably the conversation is still visible in the BeeBEEP of the other user of the chat (in his/her pc).
There is also a file called beebeep.bak in "Data Folder" (see the FAQ).
You can close BeeBEEP.
Copy beebeep.bak in beebeep.dat file and restart BeeBEEP.
If you are lucky the chat is...[ Read more ] -
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Anonymous - Friday, 19 December 2025 - 13:03can you help me -
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Marco Mastroddi - Wednesday, 10 December 2025 - 16:35Ciao Stefano, come ho potutto vedere dai log, BeeBEEP su Terminal Server non è stato configurato correttamente.
Va creato un file beebeep.rc ad hoc in modo che BeeBEEP accetti connessioni multiple da e per singolo host.
Una gguida dettagliata la puoi trovare qui:...[ Read more ] -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 09 December 2025 - 15:53CITRIX e Terminal Server -
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TryKindess - Monday, 01 December 2025 - 08:17"You can trust BeeBEEP" Sneaking communication outside of the LAN is itself a violation of trust.
Disable all Internet communications by default.
When the program starts for the first time, ask the user for permission to connect to the beebeep.net server to check for updates and to connect to the...[ Read more ] -
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Marco Mastroddi - Sunday, 30 November 2025 - 14:23Hello! You can trust BeeBEEP, also when it send anonymous statistics.
What lind of data it send over internet: - its version - the number 1 - part of tbe ip is obscured (i need only to know which country but, it does not work anymore.
Google analytics stop to receive events from app.
For more info:...[ Read more ] -
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TryKindess - Sunday, 30 November 2025 - 14:08BeeBEEP phones home and sends data to Google by default -
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Anonymous - Friday, 28 November 2025 - 09:58IMPROVVISO NON FUNZIONAMENTO DI BEEBEEP -
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Marco Mastroddi - Saturday, 15 November 2025 - 08:48Norwegian translation updated thanks to Arne Hanssen. -
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Marco Mastroddi - Thursday, 06 November 2025 - 18:37Please read the faq https://www.beebeep.net/faq#faq21 -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 06 November 2025 - 17:32connection failed (i cannot see others users) but wifi present and working -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 28 October 2025 - 09:53You can change your font color in the chat toolbar.
You cannot change other user's color.
No there is not...
You cannot edit sent messages...
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 28 October 2025 - 09:51Hello.
Plese read the FAQ: https://www.beebeep.net/faq#faq21 -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 28 October 2025 - 09:50 -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 28 October 2025 - 09:49Hello! This is the way "network password" works.
All the users in your LAN must have the same network password (or all must disable it). -
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Anonymous - Friday, 24 October 2025 - 14:56do you mean change the sound when a new notification comes in?, you can go to "Settings" > "Notifications" > "select beep file..." > then select the file you want, if you want to listen to it press "Play Beep" -
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Anonymous - Friday, 24 October 2025 - 14:15Proposed addition of voice and video calling features -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 23 October 2025 - 18:54Activate sound alert for incoming messages -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 21 October 2025 - 08:29Change colors of senders messages. -
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Metin Savignano - Monday, 20 October 2025 - 12:12Trying to use screen share again, BeeBeep now always crashes, and it does so even though I gave it permission for Screen recording and Accessibility.
I'm on macOS 15.7.1 (Sequoia). -
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Anonymous - Sunday, 19 October 2025 - 09:47I think we need a better solution than this.
I don't know how many times this has failed me but a better backup feature would be great. -
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Anonymous - Friday, 10 October 2025 - 10:52I know this is in response to an old request, but I too would like this option to hide my IP since our IPs here are static and it would be best if people on our network could not so easily see each other's IPs. -
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Anonymous - Friday, 10 October 2025 - 10:51Yes, we are doing it.
But sometimes you just need to make an announcement, without discussion.
Thank you.
When is the program expected to be updated and what will be new.
Is there any announcement? -
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Anonymous - Friday, 03 October 2025 - 06:55Network Password Issue -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 02 October 2025 - 14:03Can't see online contacts -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 30 September 2025 - 12:09You can use "Chat will all"... -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 30 September 2025 - 12:08Hello! The program really lacks a bulletin board.
In order not to select everyone for a general message, but to send it to everyone at once. -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 30 September 2025 - 12:08Try this https://www.beebeep.net/faq#faq21 -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 30 September 2025 - 12:07Olá, preciso de ajuda.
Alguns funcionários da minha empresa não estão mostrando nenhum usuário ativo.
Enquanto outros conseguem ver todos os usuários que estão online.
Por que isso acontece ou como posso corrigir isso? tambem estou com mesmo problema -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 30 September 2025 - 12:07There is not a security requirements specification document.
BeeBEEP needs a LAN (Wifi or cabled) to work.
Messages are encrypted and delivered directly to the recipient, without intermediaries, through one of the block encryption algorithms safest in the world: BeeBEEP uses Rijndael, known by many...[ Read more ] -
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Anonymous - Friday, 26 September 2025 - 15:59security requirements specifications -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 25 September 2025 - 09:38Adding extra IP ranges -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 02 September 2025 - 18:10BeeBEEP on Ubuntu 24.04 without Snap -
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Marco Mastroddi - Thursday, 28 August 2025 - 07:08Added in the source code...
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Balló György - Wednesday, 27 August 2025 - 22:45The install targets for the binary and for the plugins are still missing.
Could you add them too? -
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 22 August 2025 - 12:00Please read https://www.beebeep.net/faq#faq21 -
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Anonymous - Friday, 22 August 2025 - 11:59Hello, there is a good suggestion, today i work with a legacy system, and the broadcast messages don't work on modern O.S, i implemented the beebeep for internal communication and if it were possible to use it to send messages from the legacy system to users, that would be fine -
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Anonymous - Friday, 22 August 2025 - 11:59I would like a solution for this same issue we are presently experiencing. -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 21 August 2025 - 21:43beebeep not showing any available users -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 19 August 2025 - 11:00Hello.
You have to enable the option in "Settings" - "Notifications" - "Enable BEEP sound also for active windows". -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 14 August 2025 - 17:44Activate sound alert for incoming messages -
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Marco Mastroddi - Monday, 11 August 2025 - 08:23Click on the button in the chat window (see the image above) https://www.beebeep.net/tips.php?lang=en-US -
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Anonymous - Monday, 11 August 2025 - 08:21How do I enable the ENTER setting? -
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Anonymous - Sunday, 10 August 2025 - 19:08Sending offline files -
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Marco Mastroddi - Sunday, 10 August 2025 - 09:56Hello.
BeeBEEP has a simple backup in the file beebeep.bak in your data folder https://www.beebeep.net/faq#faq6 * You have to open that folder and quit BeeBEEP.
* Rename beebeep.dat in beebeep.dat.ori * Rename beebeep.bak in beebeep.dat * Restart BeeBEEP If you are lucky you can find the deleted...[ Read more ] -
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Marco Mastroddi - Sunday, 10 August 2025 - 09:50Vedere altre persone offline quando non lo sono, può dipendere da più fattori.
Il più probabile è che non si sia creata una connessione tra i due pc.
Questo accade spesso quando uno dei due blocca le connessioni in ingresso.
Controlla la FAQ https://www.beebeep.net/faq#faq21 per maggiori...[ Read more ] -
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Marco Mastroddi - Sunday, 10 August 2025 - 09:48Hello! When member is removed from a gruoup or a member leave a group, that group finished in the "blocked chats" list.
I think you have to remove that group from the list also.
Check it in "Settings" - "Chats" - "Blocked chats..." -
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Anonymous - Saturday, 09 August 2025 - 07:48Erased Recent Message -
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Anonymous - Friday, 08 August 2025 - 16:13Altri PC collegati offline -
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Anonymous - Friday, 08 August 2025 - 12:09AutoResponder 'Not a member', Groups not showing in list -
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 01 August 2025 - 08:45Credo che tu debba rimuovere l'utente dai gruppi, editando il gruppo.
Vai sulla lista dei gruppi, pulsante destro sul gruppo e "Modifica gruppo".
A questo punto, se presente, togli la spunta dall'utente che vuoi togliere. -
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Anonymous - Thursday, 31 July 2025 - 17:04Cancellazione vecchio utente impossibile -
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Marco Mastroddi - Monday, 28 July 2025 - 08:29Thank you very much! -
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ttheis - Wednesday, 23 July 2025 - 23:21Looks like changing from the Nouveau driver to a Nvidia driver fixes this. -
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ttheis - Tuesday, 22 July 2025 - 20:59Did a screen shot of the startup log in the journal if that will tell you anything else.
Let me know if you need the full listing but it's rather long. -
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ttheis - Tuesday, 22 July 2025 - 20:57Did a screen shot of the startup log in the journal if that will tell you anything else. -
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ttheis - Thursday, 17 July 2025 - 19:29OK, the LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 setting does not matter.
If I open a terminal and just type beebeep and enter it usually gets that error.
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Anonymous - Thursday, 17 July 2025 - 10:00Have you managed to recompile yet? I would love to be able to use BeeBeep again - but without an audible alert, it is not much use to me.
Thanks Simon -
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ttheis - Tuesday, 15 July 2025 - 18:35Have a longer log file .
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ttheis - Tuesday, 15 July 2025 - 17:57Unfortunately since it does not start up there is no log.
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Then I actually got it to run by doing: LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1; beebeep.
But I had to try it several times.
I tested it and it works.
Sent and received beeps.
While it was running I got the log file. -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 15 July 2025 - 17:53Lista parziale degli utenti -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 15 July 2025 - 10:47 -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 15 July 2025 - 10:47Is there also a BeeBEEP log? More info on https://www.beebeep.net/faq?lang=it_IT#faq8 -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 15 July 2025 - 01:17Linux Mint Mate 22.1 running on an Intel iMac.
Beep won't run -
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Anonymous - Monday, 14 July 2025 - 19:07Sent & received message view -
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Marco Mastroddi - Sunday, 13 July 2025 - 11:02Hello...
I need to know how the intranet works.
What is the range of IP.
BeeBEEP to discover people needs to broadcast or multicast UDP message..
If you can be more specific about the network I try to help you... -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 08 July 2025 - 07:38Iran Intranet Situation! -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - 16:17Ho risolto.
il problema era la libreria QT4 che non è piu' disponibile, allora ho rifatto tutta la procedura con la versione QT5.
Altri problemi riguardavano i permessi e le directory di installazione.
Nello specifico : - il link simbolico va in /usr/local/bin - il problema principale è che quando...[ Read more ] -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - 11:26raspbian OS 32bit , il problema è che il comando sudo ln -s per creare l'alias in /bin lo crea in modo strano...
cioe' quando visualizzo il file con file explorer mi appare un'icona con un triangolo rosso e non lo fa avviare...
eseguo tutto con sudo su ...
e ho verificato di avere i permessi di...[ Read more ] -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - 10:20 -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - 10:20You can click on the wheels icon in the tab "Users" and select "Sorting mode" by name.
In this way the order is not changed when you send a file. -
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Marco Mastroddi - Tuesday, 24 June 2025 - 10:17Which operating system do you use in Raspberry PI? -
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Anonymous - Monday, 23 June 2025 - 14:31Errata apertura primo utente invece di utente -
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Anonymous - Monday, 23 June 2025 - 12:46raspberry pi os -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 17 June 2025 - 11:36Hi, it is set to standard (in German it's called "Spitzname").
In the meanwhile, I think part of the problem is that some users had created groups and that the old user entries a part of those groups, which prevents them from being deleted.
So if I remove one of this old contacts from all the...[ Read more ] -
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Anonymous - Tuesday, 17 June 2025 - 11:35Life update, im fired because of this -
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Marco Mastroddi - Friday, 13 June 2025 - 10:01This usually happens when firewall is not configured properly.
Please see the log of the both sides to understand better.
As you said, Windows 10 cannot download file (windows 7 send, windows 10 download) from Windows 7, so Windows 7 does not accept incoming connection.
Please read the FAQ about log...[ Read more ] -
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Anonymous - Friday, 13 June 2025 - 09:58Version 5.8.6, file transfer does not work from Windows 7 (ops, sorry) to Windows 10.
Messages work, and file transfer in opposite direction (Windows 10 -> Windows 7) works.
Transfer from Linux to Windows 10 works, too. -
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Marco Mastroddi - Saturday, 07 June 2025 - 08:12Hello to you.
Thank you for your feedback.
I try to answer...
1) If people are offline they don't receive messages in everyone chat: "Chat with all" is a "instantaneous chat" and the messages sent is delivered only to people online in that moment.
2) I need more information about it.
If you send a...[ Read more ]
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