# Joining a Meeting Weirdness **URL:** \ **Category:** Web\ **Created:** [April 23, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/joining-a-meeting-weirdness/14622 "2020-04-23T15:24:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sales1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@sales1](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/sales1)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/joining-a-meeting-weirdness/14622/1 "2020-04-23T15:24:24Z")
I have a test meeting that gets created and two people join. It’s just me and my other browser for testing. I also tested joining the meeting with my Zoom app on Android, and get the exact same behavior as below. I start the meeting with the host user, works, meeting starts and I join. I see 1 participant (myself). The other user joins the meeting, it works, they’re joined. They hit the waiting room. On the host screen I never see they joined, I don’t see an option to let them into the meeting. The only thing I can do is unselect “Put attendee in waiting room on entry” and when I do that, the attendee screen switches to what looks like the meeting immediately. Participants says 0. In the participant window I see “(Me)”. On mobile the participant does not leave the waiting room. Neither user can see the other user’s chat messages. I’m not sure if this is a problem, or just weirdness caused by trying to join the meeting twice from the same computer, using different browser windows. ---
**Author:** ![sales1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@sales1](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/sales1)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 3:35pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/joining-a-meeting-weirdness/14622/2 "2020-04-23T15:35:00Z")
Is it possible to disable the Waiting Room via the Create Meeting API, or this this an account/user level global setting? It appears that after disabling the waiting room this works, at least with my limited testing so far. ---
**Author:** ![tommy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tommy/32/72769_2.png) [@tommy](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tommy)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/joining-a-meeting-weirdness/14622/3 "2020-04-27T18:43:55Z")
Hey @sales1, You can disable the waiting room at the [meeting](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/meetings/meetingcreate), [user](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/users/usersettingsupdate), and [account](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/accounts/accountsettingsupdate) level with the API. Thanks, Tommy ---
**Author:** ![sales1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@sales1](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/sales1)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/joining-a-meeting-weirdness/14622/4 "2020-04-27T18:48:49Z")
I don’t remember seeing that but I do now. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![tommy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tommy/32/72769_2.png) [@tommy](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tommy)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/joining-a-meeting-weirdness/14622/5 "2020-04-30T20:53:05Z")
Happy to help! 🙂 -Tommy ---
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Closed on August 21, 2020, 8:59pm UTC