# Rooms API - Request for Clarification on Alert calls

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rooms-api-request-for-clarification-on-alert-calls/125247>\
**Category:** Zoom Rooms\
**Created:** [January 24, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rooms-api-request-for-clarification-on-alert-calls/125247 "2025-01-24T20:47:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![bstrelko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/bstrelko/32/43750_2.png) [@bstrelko](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/bstrelko)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/rooms-api-request-for-clarification-on-alert-calls/125247/1 "2025-01-24T20:47:26Z")

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Looking to get clarification on what the zoomroom.alarm\_start and zoomroom.alarm\_stop calls are actually meant to do. I have run them on several Zoom rooms and received success responses, but do not see anything different onscreen, in the admin portal for the room, etc. I do not receive any email alerts either.

What feature/parameter in the actual ZR do these alerts/‘alarms’ actually refer to?

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