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Starting or joining a meeting from a Zoom Room Follow

Overview

There are several ways to join or start a meeting from a Zoom Room. If your Zoom Room is integrated with a calendar service, you start from the scheduled meeting list. You can also join by calling out or entering a meeting ID.

For a printable version of this information, see the Zoom Room user guide.

This article covers:

Prerequisites

  • Zoom Rooms for Conference Room
    • Windows: 4.3.0 (390.0130) or higher
    • macOS: 4.3.0 (446.0130) or higher
  • Zoom Rooms Controller
    • Android: 4.3.6 (40253.0127) or higher
    • iOS: 4.3.6 (220.0125) or higher

Starting a scheduled meeting as a host

  1. Tap Meeting List in the left panel.
  2. Tap the topic of your scheduled meeting.
    Note: To display meetings from a calendar service, you must integrate the Zoom Room with Google Calendar, Office 365, Exchange 2016/13, Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2007.
  3. Tap Start to start the meeting.

Starting an instant meeting

Note:

  • The room list on the controller automatically displays up to 2,000 rooms in the same account. Rooms not displayed on the list are still searchable using the search bar at the top the room list.
  • Users are not displayed in the contacts list but are searchable using the search bar at the top of the room list.

  1. Tap Meet Now in the left panel.
  2. Select a Zoom Room to invite, or use the search bar to find a user.
  3. Tap Meet Now to start an instant meeting.

Joining a meeting using the meeting ID

You can join a Zoom meeting by entering the meeting ID.

Note: If multiple Zoom Rooms join a meeting, the first one to join becomes the meeting host. If you're supposed to be the host, you can claim host by using the host key.

  1. Tap Join in the left panel.
  2. Enter the meeting ID using the number pad.
  3. Tap Join.
  4. (Optional) Claim host by using the host key if you're supposed to be the host.

Joining a meeting using meeting history

You can also join a meeting by selecting a meeting from list of previously-joined meeting. 

Note: The meeting history list only displays meetings joined by entering the meeting ID.

  1. Tap Join in the left panel.
  2. Tap the downward arrow to display recently-joined meetings.
  3. Tap the meeting topic to join.

Other methods to start or join a meeting