AWS Chime SDK meeting duration limitations
Is there a limit to the length of a Chime SDK meeting session? For example, we will have meetings that may last for a full week or longer with folks around the world joining and dropping as they wake and sleep. Based on my research thus far it would seem as though meetings automatically end at the 24 hour mark. If this is indeed the case would I be able to essentially extend the meeting duration to any length by creating a new meeting session at the 23 hour mark and moving all participants from the old to the new?
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You are correct that the meeting will automatically end after 24 hours. (Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime-sdk/latest/dg/create-mtgs.html)
But you are also correct that you can build a user experience where the meeting will appear to go on for much longer. There are a number of ways that you could do that. One approach would have the connected clients (your front-end app) talk amongst themselves to have one of them create a meeting and distribute the new meeting ID. They could then coordinate a move to the new meeting to minimize the disruption. The data channel for the existing meeting can be used to communicate this. (Data channel reference: https://aws.github.io/amazon-chime-sdk-js/modules/apioverview.html#9-send-and-receive-data-messages-optional.)
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Thank you Doug. This is what I suspected. We also faced a similar limitation while using the Zoom Video SDK and through some fairly simple mechanics were able to facilitate a 15-minute meeting session refresh countdown within the user experience to inform all users that their meeting session will refresh once the countdown expires. It sounds like this solution, or something similar, will work here as well.