Meeting not Started

[mobeendev]

@mieszko4 , @zvs001 I have integrated the SDK successfully and I can join the meeting.

However, I can not start the meeting as host: if I invoke the start meeting function it asks for the password as shown below:

and after entering the password it doesn't make me host as you can see below:

Here is the function call

async start() { try {

  console.log("starting...",);

  await ZoomUs.startMeeting({
    userName: "my@email.com or username",
    meetingNumber: "94975169839",
    userId: "Mylf1UJdoJzEQTUID",
    zoomAccessToken: "1eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiIsInzS2TaKzNW6w",
    userType: 2, // optional
  });
} catch (e) {
  console.warn({ e });
}

}

[mieszko4]

How did you retrieve zoomAccessToken ?

[mobeendev]

@mieszko4 I have this script where I allow use php to generate access token:

`<?php

ini_set('display_errors', 1); ini_set('display_startup_errors', 1); error_reporting(E_ALL);

require_once 'config.php';

$url = "https://zoom.us/oauth/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=".CLIENT_ID."&redirect_uri=".REDIRECT_URI; ?>

Login with Zoom

`

after authentication from above, I get this url // callback url

https://mydomain.com/staging/zoom-integration/callback.php?code=FROM-ZOOM-CODE-JdoJzEQ

and here's the callback script:

`<?php require_once 'config.php';

try { $client = new GuzzleHttp\Client(['base_uri' => 'https://zoom.us']);

$response = $client->request('POST', '/oauth/token', [
    "headers" => [
        "Authorization" => "Basic ". base64_encode(CLIENT_ID.':'.CLIENT_SECRET)
    ],
    'form_params' => [
        "grant_type" => "authorization_code",
        "code" => $_GET['code'], --------------------------This is the code with which I am making call to /oauth/token 
                                   --------------------------------to generate access token
        "redirect_uri" => REDIRECT_URI
    ],
]);

$token = json_decode($response->getBody()->getContents(), true);
print_r($token);

    die('done');

} catch(Exception $e) { echo $e->getMessage(); }`

so this returns the access token / zak

[mobeendev]

@mieszko4 how would you suggest me to make an access token, so that I can initiate the meeting from mobile app.

[zvs001]

I think this route not for zak creation.

We create zak from users route:

 const result = await client.get(`/users/${user_id}/token`, {
    params: { type: 'zak' }, // query
 })
return result.data.token

[mieszko4]

I will try to update the example with fetching zak https://github.com/mieszko4/react-native-zoom-us-test so maybe that will help.

[mobeendev]

@mieszko4 yes that would be so nice. Also I noticed that you are giving zak for userId, is that required!

const startMeeting = async () => { 
    try {
      const startMeetingResult = await ZoomUs.startMeeting({
        userName: 'John',
        meetingNumber: exampleMeeting.meetingNumber,
        userId: exampleMeeting.zoomAccessToken,  <<----------------------------
        zoomAccessToken: exampleMeeting.zoomAccessToken, <<----------------------------
      });

      console.log({startMeetingResult});
    } catch (e) {
      Alert.alert('Error', 'Could not execute startMeeting');
      console.error(e);
    }
  };

[mobeendev]

@mieszko4 I solved this issue, actually I was using Access Token which I was getting after OAuth from server-side authentication. that token is used to make API calls to create meetings/list meetings/see user/ view rooms etc.

The zoom access token is obtained if we retrieve meeting information from this API and in the headers of this request we'll pass above OAuth Access Token :

{{baseUrl}}/meetings/94975163239

{
    "uuid": "pTLY+5h/QMCxUYUj+HSpBg==",
    "id": 94975163239,
    "host_id": "Mo3adfQ7elf1UJdoJzEQ",
    "host_email": "mobeen@mydomain.com",
    "assistant_id": "",
    "topic": "Integrate zoom APIs",
    "type": 2,
    "status": "waiting",
    "start_time": "2020-12-24T17:30:00Z",
    "duration": 30,
    "timezone": "Asia/Qatar",
    "agenda": "",
    "created_at": "2020-10-11T09:24:08Z",
    "start_url": "https://zoom.us/s/94975163239?zak=eyJ6bV9za20iOiJ6bV9vMm0iLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJjbGllbnQiLCJ1aWQiOiJNb0xQSlJoZFE3ZWxmMVVKZG9KekVRIiwiaXNzIjoid2ViIiwic3R5IjoxMDAsIndjZCI6ImF3MSIsImNsdCI6MCwic3RrIjoiZjk1YWFlQ01qakROZjVzUk1Vcl9TM3lRNXowMzF5WWRKZjUwazJsSmczRS5CZ1VnUlM5V2VVVTViM2xhUkU1VVZtVkROVVUwV0V0YU9Dc3phRnBsYjFkamRsSkFOelkzWlRreU5tVTNaV0kzWkRnMk9UVXlOMkV5T1dZeE5UWTBZamcyTkRjMllUQXlNMlpqTm1Zd05UQTJOVEU1TkRkbVltRXpaREkzTUdWaE5HVTNPQUFNTTBOQ1FYVnZhVmxUTTNNOUFBTmhkekUiLCJleHAiOjE2MDU2OTU2MjIsImlhdCI6MTYwNTY4ODQyMiwiYWlkIjoiY0pNWlpiMnRRdjZHVmNEOC12bVJ2ZyIsImNpZCI6IiJ9.snrNvXgQUCzI7dFYpF855TlxzpPXYN2boUe00pfiQg4",
    "join_url": "https://zoom.us/j/99676269266?pwd=QVpEblNwa3FRbzc0OGdFTlFYaFZiZz09",
    "password": "123456",
    "h323_password": "123456",
    "pstn_password": "123456",
    "encrypted_password": "QVpSidfei1l2k3jGdFTlFYaFZiZz09",
    "settings": {
        "host_video": false,
        "participant_video": false,
        "cn_meeting": false,
        "in_meeting": false,
        "join_before_host": false,
        "mute_upon_entry": false,
        "watermark": false,
        "use_pmi": false,
        "approval_type": 2,
        "audio": "voip",
        "auto_recording": "none",
        "enforce_login": false,
        "enforce_login_domains": "",
        "alternative_hosts": "",
        "close_registration": false,
        "show_share_button": false,
        "allow_multiple_devices": false,
        "registrants_confirmation_email": true,
        "waiting_room": true,
        "request_permission_to_unmute_participants": false,
        "registrants_email_notification": true,
        "meeting_authentication": false,
        "encryption_type": "enhanced_encryption"
    }
}

above response contains the start_url and zak as shown below:

"start_url": "https://zoom.us/s/94975163239?zak=eyJ6bV9za20iOiJ6bV9vMm0iLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJhdWQiOiJjbGllbnQiLCJ1aWQiOiJNb0xQSlJoZFE3ZWxmMVVKZG9KekVRIiwiaXNzIasdfasjh1k2h3kj1hl3jViM2xhUkU1VVZtVkROVVUwV0V0YU9Dc3phRnBsYjFkamRsSkFOelkzWlRreU5tVTNaV0kzWkRnMk9UVXlUiLCJleHAiOjE2MDU2OTU2MjIsImlhdCI6MTYwNTY4ODQyMiwiYWlkIjoiY0pNWlpiMnRRdjZHVmNEOC12bVJ2ZyIsImNpZCI6IiJ9.snrNvXgQUCzI7dFYpF855TlxzpPXYN2boUe00pfiQg4",
we need to extract that zak value and pass to the await ZoomUs.startMeeting method. it will then work fine.

[mieszko4]

Great, thnx @mobeendev That will definitely inspire me to integrate it in the example app.

[mobeendev]

Welcome @mieszko4 🌟