# Start Meeting without host start?

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/start-meeting-without-host-start/6115>\
**Category:** Web\
**Created:** [October 2, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/start-meeting-without-host-start/6115 "2019-10-02T03:42:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![arunkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@arunkumar](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/arunkumar)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2019, 3:42am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/start-meeting-without-host-start/6115/1 "2019-10-02T03:42:26Z")

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Hi

My Application Scenario is like this:

1. create a meeting by back-end-server using API.
2. 3 users, join the meeting by Web SDK & JS SDK.
3. I am getting an error message like “meeting not started”.

can I start meeting without the host start?  
or  
How can I start by meeting by API? any other way?  
or  
Do users join the meeting without a host?

Create Meeting Parameters:  
{  
“topic”: “Testing API Create Metting”,  
“type”: 1,  
“password”: “”,  
“agenda”: “3 users join the test meeting”,  
“settings”: {  
“host\_video”: true,  
“participant\_video”: true,  
“join\_before\_host”: true,  
“mute\_upon\_entry”: true,  
“watermark”: true,  
“use\_pmi”: false,  
“approval\_type”: 2,  
“audio”: “voip”,  
“auto\_recording”: “none”,  
“enforce\_login”: false  
}  
}

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**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:** [October 2, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/start-meeting-without-host-start/6115/2 "2019-10-02T15:59:31Z")

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Hey @arunkumar,

You can start the meeting via the Web SDK by setting the `role` to `1` in the `meetConfig` object. This allows a user to join the meeting as a host which starts the meeting.

> [@Meeting not started!](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/meeting-not-started/5040/5):
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> Hey @danish, happy to help! You can [start a meeting with the Web SDK](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/sdk/native-sdks/Web-Client-SDK/getting-started/join-a-meeting#set-your-meeting-config-object). To start a meeting with the [sample web app](https://github.com/zoom/sample-app-web) follow these steps, $ git clone https://github.com/zoom/sample-app-web.git $ cd sample-app-web/CDN $ npm install $ npm run start Enter your API\_Key and API\_Secret in the js/index.js file. Change the role on the meetConfig object to 1 to start a meeting as a host. Refresh your browser, and enter your meeting ID in the meeting number input and click the blue Join button. This w…

Let me know if this helps! 🙂

Thanks,  
Tommy

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**Author:** ![arunkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@arunkumar](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/arunkumar)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/start-meeting-without-host-start/6115/3 "2019-10-03T02:34:20Z")

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Hi @tommy,

```
    Thanks to help me. yeah its working 

```

Thanks,  
Arun

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**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:** [October 3, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/start-meeting-without-host-start/6115/4 "2019-10-03T15:19:53Z")

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Happy to help! 🙂

-Tommy

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**Author:** ![Matiboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6bbea6/32.png) [@Matiboy](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Matiboy)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/start-meeting-without-host-start/6115/5 "2020-03-26T04:39:33Z")

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Hi Tommy,

Is there documentation of what each role value corresponds to somewhere?

Thanks!

Mat

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**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:** [March 26, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/start-meeting-without-host-start/6115/6 "2020-03-26T07:02:31Z")

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Hey @Matiboy,

To start a meting, pass in role 1, to join a meeting pass in role 0.

[We will make this more clear in our docs.](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/sdk/native-sdks/web/essential/start-join-meeting)

Thanks,  
Tommy

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 7:24pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/start-meeting-without-host-start/6115/7 "2020-08-21T19:24:41Z")

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