'useRemoteVideoTileState' hook is not returning anything

The ‘useRemoteVideoTileState’ hook is not returning anything on addition of new participants in the meeting.

const { tiles, attendeeIdToTileId } = useRemoteVideoTileState(); Expected behaviour It should return the updated object mapping attendeeIdToTileId every time a new user joins the meeting as specified in the docs. But it repeatedly returns a blank object.

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Image from the docs specifying the hooks return values

The hook not returning anything causes my functional logic to break (Below only two video tiles should be rendered) Here the two tiles depict 2 remote users who have joined in on a chime meeting

Desktop OS: macOS Catalina Browser: Chrome Version: 85

[p-foucht]

Ah sorry - I might have misunderstood, I’ll re-open!

From the images, it looks like you’re pulling the attendeeIdToTileId property from the state returned from useRemoteVideoTileState.

The attendeeIdToTileId value is an empty object, which is the correct state when there aren’t any remote users sharing video. In your screenshot, it does not look like there are any remote users sharing their video, which should be why the attendeeIdToTileId object is empty.

Can you start sharing video as a remote user, and see if the value is updated?

[p-foucht]

Hi ronork,

The useRemoteVideoTileState hook returns the state associated with remote videos being shared in the meeting session. It doesn’t provide the list of attendees (See useRosterState and useAttendeeStatus for state associated with attendees)