Campsite Mode: your phone as a theatre and game room
Campsite Mode turns your Android phone into a small local server. Guests join its Wi-Fi, scan a code, type a name and watch the videos you downloaded or play games together in their web browser, with no app and no account.
Available now Status: Campsite Mode is in the Android app (1.38). The guest server runs on the local Wi-Fi and makes no internet requests, so it works without a signal. It is for Android phones; it is hidden on TVs.
Before you go
- Download the videos you want while you still have Wi-Fi. Campsite Mode shares the videos already downloaded on the host phone; nothing streams from your home PC.
- Guests need a phone, tablet or laptop with a web browser. They do not install anything or sign up.
- Guests must stay near your phone to keep their signal, just like staying near a home Wi-Fi.
Step by step
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Open Campsite Mode
In the Android app, open Other › Games › Play with guests to start a session, or open the Campsite Mode screen directly.
What you’ll see: A screen with a tent icon and “Turn this phone into a little theatre and game room. Guests scan a code, type a name, and watch the videos you downloaded or play along — over local Wi-Fi.”
Screenshot coming. The Campsite Mode start screen.
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Tap Invite guests
Tap Invite guests. This starts Campsite Mode so other phones can watch and play, then asks you to pick the Wi-Fi. Nothing is switched on until you choose.
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Step 1: get guests on the Wi-Fi
Pick how the other phones reach yours: Start Beebo’s own Wi-Fi (Beebo makes a Wi-Fi just for this, with no internet, and turns it off when you stop), Use my phone’s own hotspot, or Everyone’s already on the same Wi-Fi. With the first two, guests scan the first code and their phone joins your Wi-Fi with no typing and no password to read out.
On some Android versions, Beebo asks for Location permission before it can make the Wi-Fi. The dialog explains why: it is only used to switch on the Wi-Fi, and Beebo never reads, stores or sends where you are.
What you’ll see: A join code for guests, headed “Step 1 — get guests on the Wi-Fi”.
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Step 2: open the theatre
Guests scan the second code, headed Step 2 — open the theatre, or open the address shown under it. Their browser opens on your phone’s page. They type a name and they are in.
What you’ll see: Under the code, “Sharing … downloaded videos” and a list of who is connected. If a guest sees “not connected to a network”, they skipped step 1, or their phone is in Airplane mode with Wi-Fi off.
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Watch, play and share
Guests pick from your downloaded videos, open the games, or join a shared photo and video show. Videos can be watched together, in sync. Everyone plays on their own phone; you can open the same games from your own screen.
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Stop when you are done
Tap Stop Campsite Mode. If nobody is connected for 15 minutes, Campsite Mode stops by itself.
What guests can do
- Watch together. Guests see live sessions on their library page and can tap straight in, already in sync. Whoever opened the video holds playback, and the page hands it on if they wander off. Play, pause and seek happen on the browser page.
- Games. Dozens of shared games, plus solo ones, played on each person’s own phone in the browser. Everyone opens Games, chooses the same game, and the leader starts the round. You can also play against the computer on your phone with no Wi-Fi or hotspot at all.
- Campfire stories. Story starters to read out loud and pass round, a story spinner (a character, a place, a problem and a twist), and “next line” mode where anyone can add a sentence. Read aloud uses the phone’s built-in voice, and night red dims the screen to a soft red.
- Shared photos and videos. Take turns presenting: swipe to change the photo for everyone, or play a video together.
- Also in the app: a star chart, a packing list and a scavenger hunt. The Trip Journal can turn a trip’s games and stories into a recap.
Safety and privacy notes
- It runs on a local Wi-Fi, not the internet. The guest server and its pages make no internet requests, and Beebo’s own Wi-Fi has no internet. That is why it works with no signal. It does not mean the whole app is offline: the rest of the app can still reach the internet if the phone is connected, and Scavenger Hunt reads your location while its screen is open and can share finds through a Beebo hub if you have connected one.
- The guest page is plain HTTP on that Wi-Fi. Treat it like a shared room: anyone who can join the Wi-Fi and has the address can open it. Beebo’s own Wi-Fi is protected by a password, which the join code holds so nobody has to type it.
- Guests cannot save your videos in the ordinary way. The player page removes the download control and the right-click menu, and nothing is written to a guest’s device. That stops normal saving. It is not a claim that a determined person with developer tools could never copy a stream, so only share what you are happy to share.
- Names are whatever people type. Nothing checks who they are, and two people who type the same name count as one.
- Share only videos you have the right to share. Beebo includes no movies or shows.
If something goes wrong
A guest’s page will not load after joining
Beebo’s own Wi-Fi has no internet. Some phones try to use mobile data instead when the Wi-Fi has none, so have the guest turn mobile data off for a minute and reload. Also check they scanned step 1 first.
The code will not open on a shared or hotel Wi-Fi
Some public and hotel Wi-Fi keeps phones from seeing each other. Use Beebo’s own Wi-Fi or your phone’s hotspot instead.
Nobody can see any videos
The host phone shares only videos already downloaded in the Beebo app. Check the count under “Sharing … downloaded videos”. Download the videos while you still have Wi-Fi.
Guests lose the connection
They have gone out of range of the host phone. Move closer, and keep the host phone charged and awake while a session is running.
Related pages
Written for Beebo for Windows 0.1.57 and the Beebo Android app 1.38, as of September 21, 2026. Found something that doesn’t match what you see? Tell us at testers@beeboentertainment.com. It is a plain email, with no form and no sign-up.