title: Were Hangouts On Air example buttons recently broken?
body: <p>Something seems to have changed recently (early Nov 2014) in the way the example buttons work to start a Hangout On Air (HOA).  <a href="https://developers.google.com/+/hangouts/button" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/+/hangouts/button</a></p>
  
  <p>I have been using this example code from the link above as a starting point to make a "Create a Hangout On Air" button on my website. </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js" async defer&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;div id="placeholder-div3"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;script&gt;
    gapi.hangout.render('placeholder-div3', {
      'render': 'createhangout',
      'hangout_type': 'onair',
      'initial_apps': [{'app_id' : '184219133185', 'start_data' : 'dQw4w9WgXcQ', 'app_type' : 'ROOM_APP' }],
      'widget_size': 175
     });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The initial_apps line is supposed to cause the HOA to automatically start the Youtube hangouts app (the app_id) with a particular video (the start_data). A couple weeks ago this was working. Now it is not. The initial_apps parameter seems to have no effect on the initial start of my HOA.</p>
  
  <p>Another change I have noticed is that when I press the Create a Hangout button, I am now taken to a Google+ page where I enter a name for the hangout and guests, and then I have to push another button to actually start the HOA. This extra button push was not around previously.</p>
  
  <p>I don't particularly care about the Youtube app starting, but I do care about my own app starting with my own start_data.</p>
  
  <p>Has something changed recently? Why is this not working?</p>
  
  <p>UPDATE: As of 16-Nov-2014, this bug seems to be fixed.</p>