Rooms
Update room
Rooms
Update room
Use this action to set a room’s privacy and config properties through Daily’s API. Learn more about this API call at Daily API Reference
Fields
General
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Room | Text | Name of the room that you would like to configure. |
| Privacy | Text | Determines room access. Options: public or private. Default is public. |
| Enable Knocking | Boolean | Turns on a lobby experience for private rooms. Users without meeting tokens can request access by “knocking.” Options: Yes or No. Default is true. |
| Language | Text | Default language for the room. Options: en (English), es (Spanish), etc. Default is en. |
| Enable Screen Share | Boolean | Determines whether screen share is enabled. Options: Yes or No. Default is true. |
| Enable Chat | Boolean | Determines whether chat is enabled. Options: Yes or No. Default is true. |
| Enable People UI | Boolean | Determines whether to display People UI. Default is true. |
| Enable Prejoin UI | Boolean | Determines whether participants enter a waiting room with camera, mic, and browser checks before joining. Default is true. |
| Video Processing UI | Boolean | Enables background blur controls for participants. Default is false. |
| Enable PiP UI | Boolean | Sets whether Picture in Picture controls are enabled in Daily Prebuilt. Default is false. |
| Emoji Reactions | Boolean | Enables emoji reactions in the call. Default is false. |
| Hand Raising | Boolean | Allows participants to raise hands in Daily Prebuilt. Default is false. |
| Noise Cancellation | Boolean | Enables microphone noise cancellation during calls. Default is false. |
Advanced Settings
The following fields are optional advanced settings:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Not Before (Unix Timestamp) | Number | Users cannot join the room before this time. A Unix timestamp (seconds since epoch). Optional. |
| Expires (Unix Timestamp) | Number | Users cannot join the room after this time. A Unix timestamp (seconds since epoch). |
| Owner Only Broadcast | Boolean | If set to yes, only meeting owners can turn on camera, unmute mic, and share screen. Configure meeting owner token using Daily - create meeting token action. Default is false. |
| Eject at Room Expiration | Boolean | If a meeting is ongoing at room expiration time, this setting ejects all participants. Optional. |
| Eject After Elapsed Time | Number | Ejects participants after a set number of seconds. Optional. |
| Meeting Join Hook | Text | Optional URL to receive a webhook when a user joins a room. |
| Advanced Chat | Boolean | Provides enhanced chat options like emoji reactions and Giphy messages. Default is false. |
| Breakout Rooms | Boolean | Sets whether Daily Prebuilt’s breakout rooms feature is enabled. When set to true, an owner in a Prebuilt call can create breakout rooms to divide participants into smaller, private groups. |
| Shared Chat History | Boolean | When enabled, newly joined participants in Prebuilt calls will request chat history from remote peers, in order to view chat messages from before they joined. |
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Max Participants | Number | Maximum participants allowed in a room at the same time. Default is 200. Optional. |
| Enable Recording | Dropdown | Determines whether recording is enabled. Options: cloud, local, rtp-tracks, output-byte-stream, cloud-beta. Optional. |
Transcription
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| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Live Captions UI | Boolean | Sets whether participants can see a closed captions button in the call tray. When set to yes, the button appears, and participants can toggle captions locally. When set to no, the button is hidden. |
| Transcription Storage | Boolean | Controls whether live transcriptions started with startTranscription() are saved as WebVTT files. |
| Auto Transcription | Boolean | Set to yes to enable automatic transcription. Requires additional settings in the create meeting token action and to set the following fields. |
| Language | Text | Specifies the transcription language. See available options in Deepgram’s documentation. |
| Model | Dropdown | Selects the model for transcription. View available models in Deepgram’s documentation. |
| Profanity Filter | Boolean | Filters out recognized profanity, replacing it with a non-profane word or removing it entirely from the transcript. Learn more here. |
| Punctuate | Boolean | Adds punctuation and capitalization to the transcript. Learn more here. |
| Endpointing | Number | Controls the delay (in milliseconds) for returning transcripts when pauses in speech are detected. The default is 10 milliseconds. Learn more here. |
| Redact | Text | Removes sensitive information from transcripts. Provide a comma-separated list of entities to redact. Learn more here. |
| Raw Response | Boolean | Includes Deepgram’s raw response in the transcription data. |
Returned Values
The following values are returned by the action:
| Value | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy | Text | Defines room privacy setting (public or private). |
| URL | Text | The room URL created. |
| Created At | Date | The date and time when the room was created. |
| Expiration (Unix Time) | Number | The expiration time for the room in Unix timestamp format. |
| Enable Chat | Boolean | Indicates if chat is enabled. |
| Room ID | Text | The ID of the created room. |
| Room Name | Text | The name of the created room. |
| Owner Only Broadcast | Boolean | Indicates if only the owner can broadcast in the room. |
| Not Before (Unix Time) | Number | The time before which no one can join the room. Optional. |