How to join a session as host with web video SDK?

[bekit (Brint E. Kriebel)]

Unfortunately, you have to manage that yourself and there isn’t really any security around it. Here’s what I came up with, posted in response to another question:

@bekit

In my experience, the first user to join the topic is automatically created as the host. That host can then pass the host status off to another account. In my implementation I added a check that fired any time a new user joined that is essentially “Am I the host and is the user joining supposed to be the host instead? If so, give them the host status”. It’s not ideal because the person who first join will have host powers up until the person who should be host joins. There may be a better solution to this, but I haven’t found it.