I’ll start by saying we are not developers, however Zoom Support suggested I write a thread here for others to be able to review and determine if there is a way to do what we’re looking for. For us, it’s a very simple task, and we’re close… But so far.
We have a remote-worker television that runs Zoom and launches a scheduled meeting via 2 potential options:
Using the below string, a meeting joins, auto-starts video - however we get a random meeting ID, even when we specify the correct ID.
start “” “zoommtg://zoom.us/start?confno=[meetingnumber]&zc=0”
Using the below string, we do not get auto-video and audio started, however we do get the correct meeting ID:
start “” “zoommtg://zoom.us/join?confno=[meetingnumber]&zc=0”
All references are from:
Support tells us the majority of the link above is now depreciated and unsupported.
We need a solution that can be easily scripted to start the conference, auto start video and audio and allow for our remote employees to then join the meeting.
The meeting number we’re placing is an auto-scheduled meeting that runs from 7:30am to 5pm. (So to answer your question, yes) The script runs at 7:31, and then we force close everything at 5:01.
We’re not using any other query parameters at this time, we’ve tested embed passcodes, and various other things, but really just trying to get the zc=0 to work, which If I understand correctly should auto start the host’s video and audio… It auto starts our audio successfully, but not the video. We need to go push the “Start video” button for that.
Now you’ll need to forgive my inexperience with Zoom and finding information.
Could you please tell me where I would find the {hostUserID} and the {tokenFromThisAPICall}?
Would the ID just be the email address of the account? Not sure where to get the API token, either. I figure uname would be what we want to show up in the meeting, correct?
Use postman to make a GET request to https://api.zoom.us/v2/users . On the Authorization tab in Postman, choose the Bearer Token type, and past your Zoom JWT Token in the input. Then click the blue send button.
Apologies for the delay. First, thank you so much for taking the time to take screenshots and walk me through the process here.
Went through everything, rebuilt the string. Same issue. (If not a bit worse). Using /start or /join, the meeting does join, however audio and video are disabled. We have to physically click the “start video” and “start audio” buttons to get them going.
Thank you again, let me know if you have any other thoughts.
The meeting is a “scheduled” meeting, that reoccurs, but it’s scheduled, so the meeting ID should not ever change. We wanted to do it that way so that we didn’t need to “invite” and such for our remote employees. How would you suggest we accomplish the same type of task if we’re not doing the ‘reoccurring meeting’?
Host Video and participants video has been turned on in the settings.
We started looking into Zoom rooms after support gave up in helping us, but unfortunately, the expense outweighs what we’d be able to get out of it. The solution isn’t quite right.
Good point, even though the meeting is started with a different meeting number than the PMI, can you still join the meeting by setting the PMI in the join url?
Great! If you are using a Zoom Client on your TV, make sure the “video off settings are off”:
I just want to clarify on your #1, we don’t have the “Use Personal Meeting ID (PMI) when scheduling a meeting” turned on in the settings, would like me to turn that on to test your thoughts of using the PMI to join the main conference?
I have confirmed that the 2 settings you screenshotted are not checked.
Difficult to make a movie without removing sensitive information to show you everything. Is there by chance another way we can communicate? I see you are labelled “staff” do you work for Zoom and we can call each other?
What is there to describe, everything is the same, I will create a shortcut with a link to the conference on the Windows desktop - zoommtg://zoom.us/join?confno=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&zc=0
And by this shortcut I enter the conference but with the camera turned off.
If I enter the conference from the application, the camera is always on
