Empty room timeout adjustment

[mblazek-moravio]

Hello. I’m trying to extend the empty room timeout. But no matter what I set in

this.client.createRoom({
                name: sessionId,
                emptyTimeout: emptyTimeout,
                maxParticipants: sessionSize
            });

the room is finished after ~30s after last/only participant disconnects. My use case is: Instructor (presenter) joins from eg. firefox, receives warning from our app hat they should join using chrome (due to restrictions in streaming video), so they disconnect, need to log into our app in chrome, find the session and join again. But this usually won’t happen in 30s and in that case (if no one else joins in that time) the instructor can't join the session and needs to create a new one

[jimmy-sandoval]

Hi @mblazek-moravio in my organization we are also having this problem. Thanks for reporting it

[lpusz]

Hello, @mblazek-moravio. Same problem in our current project. We've to do some workarounds.

Any chances to fix it by authors in the near future?

[RSC-88]

Same problem

[wzJun1]

Same problem +1

[davidzhao]

I think this is probably a poorly named parameter.. this timeout is the length of time to keep a Room active before a participant joins.

It seems like it would be useful to have a IdleTimeout to keep the Room after the last participant has left? Would that be helpful to folks here?

[shoaibsharif]

@davidzhao I think that's great.

[shoaibsharif]

@davidzhao this issue is here for quite a long time. We are going to production pretty soon. So just wondering if there is any timeline there or not or any work around that?

[glennlaysonjr]

@davidzhao We are running into the same problem now and the latest update is now not even giving us any delay at all. We are running a big application on this service which is becoming a issue for us and our customers. Any word on when this might be fixed?

[Tushar-Gupta11]

is this is due to RoomDepartureGrace @davidzhao ? giving fixed time if the room is empty after the last participant has left

[Tushar-Gupta11]

related to #2120 clearly