Show other users Chime call is being recorded

Question

I am building a videocall webapp with the aws chime sdk and javascript which allows users to record the call. I want to show other users on a call when they are being recorded, is there something within the chime sdk that allows for this easily?

Accepted Answer

There are two different ways you could accomplish this:

1. When the media pipeline is created, a new pipeline-related attendee will join the call. In your callback that subscribes to attendee presence (which you have for roster updates), you could use the presence of this pipeline attendee to turn on (and off) a recording indicator.
2. You could use the data message feature of the SDK and have the client that initiates the recording also send a data message to all the other clients telling them to turn on (or off) the recording indicator. (https://aws.github.io/amazon-chime-sdk-js/modules/apioverview.html#9-send-and-receive-data-messages-optional)

Option 1 might be easier since most of the mechanism is already provided. But, option 2 would also let you send other information -- like which attendee initiated the recording.

Answer

I am not able to locate any documentation on your reuquest. I do find the below - 
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/business-productivity/capture-amazon-chime-sdk-meetings-using-media-capture-pipelines/
"""
Notifications
The media capture pipeline can be in six different statuses:
Initializing | InProgress | Failed | TemporarilyFailed | Stopping | Stopped
"""
You may use one of the six statues alert to notify your participants on your recording action.

Show other users Chime call is being recorded

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