Videotile not reliable: No transition found from NotConnected with Update

When joining the meeting, I sometimes experience that my own video is not shown, even though the video is connected properly. Othertimes everything works out perfectly and my video shows once I join a meeting.

The difference in the log is the following entry that only shows up in testcases, when my own video does not appear: SDK - no transition found from NotConnected with Update

Once I deactivate and reactivate my camera, the video reappears in these cases.

Can someone explain what the warning means and how to resolve this issue?

Thanks!

Platform

• OS: Mac OSX
• Browser: Firefox
• Browser Version: 76
• Amazon Chime SDK GitHub Commit: 812f3b2

[andibrae-amzn]

The SDK could do a better job of handling the case where video is enabled during connection. It should probably throw if the client attempts to startLocalVideo without an active session rather than sometimes working and sometimes not working due to asynchronous effects.

[triplrrr]

Really? Dang. Well then, instead of complaining about a bug that doesn’t exist for me, I’ll complain about something else.

I could’ve realized that sooner if the documentation in the readme wasn’t terrible, or if there were just some minimal code examples somewhere. The use cases are good at outlining the code, but not explaining it. I had to go to a discord server to find out that this needs to be used in a webpack project. I couldn’t find it written out plainly anywhere on the readme.

There needs to be some serious work on documentation if this library is to be taken seriously. I’d be happy to write some short examples or create a setup guide if y’all’d let me, but I kinda wish it was already there.