Althought there is no checkbox for room notify. We can enable desktop notification by editing the API URL.

To enable desktop notification:

  1. Go to Admin (the Gear icon) > Hooks > HipChat > Edit
  2. Update API URL to https://api.hipchat.com/v1/rooms/message?notify=1
  3. Save

If you did not have a HipChat hook yet. Select HipChat from dropdown, hit Add hook and fill in RoomID and Token to add it.

The difference

https://api.hipchat.com/v1/rooms/message (Default) https://api.hipchat.com/v1/rooms/message?notify=1 (Enable desktop notification)

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