YASNQ: what's the penalty for having meetings run continuously?

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

(YASNQ, FYI, is my just-now created acronym for Yet Another Stupid Newbie Question.  Apologies.)

I'm wondering what the penalty for having (say) 30 meetings all running, but with no attendees.  I ask because I'd really like meetings to be sort of an "on-demand" thing -- click the URL, and there you are -- and not have to be set up after the first initialization.  Or... is there a way to have them just restart, even after they've ended?  It's entirely possible I'm missing a salient point, here.

Thanks, and apologies for all the questions.

-Ken

[Richard Alam]

Hi Ken,

You can just call the create API each time a user joins. Essentially,
all users will call the Create-Join sequence.
The first user to call Create creates the meeting. The succeeding
users when they call Create, bbb-web will
see that a meeting with the meetingID has been created, so it ignores
the request. Although it returns a warning in the
API reply. After that, the users will call the Join API and they end
up in the same meeting.

So there's no need to pre-create any meetings before hand. In your
third-party app, you just do the Create-Join sequence convention.
I believe all the demos that comes with BBB does this.

Richard

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>
> -Ken
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[Ken D'Ambrosio]

I just wanna take a moment out to thank you guys.  As a new user of BBB, it's been my undiluted pleasure to have such responsive, knowledgeable people out there to help out.  It's experiences like this that show just how well the Open Source model can work.

As for the create/join bit... I now feel kinda dumb for not thinking of that myself.  This makes my life much, much easier.

Thanks again, and muchly,

-Ken