Question: Join meeting without turning on the camera?

Currently when I run meetingManager.join() the camera is turned on by default. Is it possible to to join without turning on the camera and allow the user to test their camera if they choose to?

[alexander-teemyco]

Hi @nicklera1 ,

I’m a Software Developer of another team who also need to start meeting with turned off camera.

You wrote:

You could look there to modify the code and set to null to prevent camera (videoInput) being included.

How we can modify MeetingManager logic and still continue using of all other Chime React components?

One of our attempt was creating new logic using inheritance of MeetingManager.

We’ve tried to do something similar to AudioVideo documentation: https://aws.github.io/amazon-chime-sdk-component-library-react/?path=/story/sdk-providers-audiovideoprovider--page

But there was a problem that we cannot override MeetingManager in MeetingContext to continue usage of all other Chime React components that depend on MeetingManager.

MeetingContext is exported here: https://github.com/aws/amazon-chime-sdk-component-library-react/blob/5b4bb2fc3d1172a4c1ebae4c1f9d27db74d0d0c1/src%2Fproviders%2FMeetingProvider%2Findex.tsx#L25

But MeetingContext is not exported then here: https://github.com/aws/amazon-chime-sdk-component-library-react/blob/c37cc41c8c5e1c8f88f35ad26d44013b0deb0af8/src%2Findex.ts#L109

So our attempt failed.

Can you please specify how we can change MeetingManager as you suggested?

[p-foucht]

Issue should be addressed in the above linked PR. It will be available in the next NPM release – feel free to verify using the demo app