Enable lobby (waiting room) feature by default

[JohnLukeP]

Hi,

I would like to know if there’s a parameter to enable the lobby (waiting room where users request permission to enter the conference) by default on each newly created call.

Thanks very much

[Freddie]

Not out of the box, but you can write a custom prosody module to do this. Search the forum.

[SBS1]

@Freddie

custom prosody module

I searched the forum and still cant see how to implement the said custom prosody module. Can you provide some guidance?

[shawn]

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