Zoom Room API - Schedule call does not start instant meeting

API and Webhooks Meetings
1

I’m trying to create an instant meeting in a Zoom Room using API, I tried making a call to “Schedule”:

Call details:
Type: POST
URL: https://api.zoom.us/v2/rooms/35mdwlWtRu2VspOly179sA/meetings
Request:
{
“jsonrpc”: “2.0”,
“method”: “schedule”,
“params”: {
“password”: “Aa123”,
“callback_url”: “https://api.test.zoom.us/callback?token=123”,
“meeting_info”: {
“topic”: “my meeting”,
“start_time”: “2022-04-12T14:30:00”,
“timezone”: “America/Los_Angeles”,
“duration”: “30”,
“settings”: {
“join_before_host”: false
}
}
}
}
Response:
{
“jsonrpc”: “2.0”,
“result”: {
“room_id”: “REDACTED”,
“send_at”: “2022-04-12T21:33:33Z”
},
“id”: “REDACTED”
}

However no meeting is started in the Zoom Room, I gave the current time as start time and 30 mins duration. Any idea what may be causing this, appreciate any help or comments about this issue.

2

Hi @Atlona_Velocity ,

I believe you have to manually start the meeting once it’s scheduled for the Zoom Room:

Let me know if this clarifies things!

Gianni

3

The meeting does not show up in the room schedule, I connected to the Zoom Room via controller app after sending this “schedule” web request, but there was no upcoming meeting or current meeting shown in that room.

4

@Atlona_Velocity are you able to create non-instant scheduled meetings and do you see those in the ui?

5

No, just tried it at 9:30 AM for meeting starting at 10 AM and it does not show up in the controller UI, here is the payload:
Request:
{
“jsonrpc”: “2.0”,
“method”: “schedule”,
“params”: {
“password”: “Aa123”,
“callback_url”: “https://api.test.zoom.us/callback?token=123”,
“meeting_info”: {
“topic”: “my meeting”,
“start_time”: “2022-04-13T10:00:00”,
“timezone”: “America/Los_Angeles”,
“duration”: “30”,
“settings”: {
“join_before_host”: false
}
}
}
}
Response:
{
“jsonrpc”: “2.0”,
“result”: {
“room_id”: “REDACTED”,
“send_at”: “2022-04-13T16:29:31Z”
},
“id”: “REDACTED”
}

6

HI @Atlona_Velocity , thank you for this information. Can you please open up a support ticket with the request/response samples you shared and the behavior you’re observing? Our Support team will look into your account specifically and help isolate the root cause for this unexpected API behavior.