So i replaced the sirens acp with the

[icy plover]

I'm afraid what you're trying to do won't really work - Have a looksie at the RadioBroadcast BIKI page: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Audio:_Radio_Broadcast_Manager

[empty mantle]

Dang, is there anyway to do this and make it work?

I’d like to make it to where it’s controlled

[slender garnet]

Why wouldn't it? Honest question, because for me it seems to work.

Joe, can you post the .acp you use?

[empty mantle]

I used structures_sirens acp in place of the radio broadcast

Just swapped them

[slender garnet]

ah no this wouldn't work

you need to replace it in the broadcast apc because it uses some signals in there to get it playing

[empty mantle]

I was thinking of maybe overriding and then duplicating so it doesn’t actually affect the rest of the radios and maybe try plugging in the audio of the siren?

[slender garnet]

i just swaped the bank, put my own in there and messed a bit with the sound propagation to get it more realistic

[empty mantle]

But then would the sound and such remain the same, the distance it carries, volume etc.

[slender garnet]

yes, this is what i did, i duplicated the .acp, changed the bank and swaped it in the .et

[empty mantle]

If I just duplicate that will work right I don’t need to override, in order to modify it?

[slender garnet]

no, this wouldn't work out of box because it isn't a UI-Soundelement.

[empty mantle]

Oh

[slender garnet]

no, if you override you change the vanilla one.

[empty mantle]

Right, but override then just duplicate the override therefore not actually changing the override just the duplicate.

Is what I was meaning to say

[slender garnet]

you duplicate and change the allocation in the et, so you keep the vanilla stuff. I did it only in the entity on map, you could also duplicate the .et and change it to your likeing. So you keep the orginal files as they are

on this part you can cange the sound propagation:

[empty mantle]

Right, I would only be doing this to one entity like a single radio on the map. Placed inside the siren pole that would imitate the control of the siren.

[empty mantle]

So just copy the same settings on the siren sound propagation onto the radio broadcast acp.

[slender garnet]

yeah, than you just change the entity instance

[empty mantle]

What to?

[slender garnet]

also question to @icy plover: When a "song" is public domain i'm free to use it, no? "Licensing. The author died in 1954. Therefore, this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and in other countries and territories where the copyright term does not exceed 70 years or more, which is the author's lifetime."

[slender garnet]

to what you did, you just need the signals from broadcast.acp present in your acp to get it starting

[icy plover]

This is NOT legal advice, but I THINK you are 😅

[empty mantle]

The signals? Sorry you lost me

[slender garnet]

the radiobroadcastComponent sends signals (on/off), these are used in the RadioBroadcast.acp to trigger the "on/off". You need a "receiving end" for this signals to get a sound playing, this is why you can't put any acp in the RadioBroadcastSoundComponent, you have to put a .acp in there that receives the signals to turn on.