Automatic meeting detection and recording | Voters

Automatic meeting detection and recording

It would be great if Hedy could automatically detect a Zoom or Teams meeting in progress and start recording, as well as stop recording.

March 21, 2025

Cesar

This would be awesome

Ines

I'd definitely love for it to start automatically. I've been using Augment AI so far, which could do that for all online meetings. I've changed to Hedy a they've pivoted and no longer provide this service. Glad to have found you!

Prithvi Raju

> https://hedy.canny.io/feature-requests/p/auto-end-session

Similar ask above; I see this is needed given I keep forgetting that I need to manually turn off on desktop app and continues to record, this messes up the overall quality of the summary in the end. If auto ends after X seconds of silence or detecting the change in system audio recording, it'll be great . Please see if can be stacked up on your priority Julian Pscheid

Julian Pscheid

Prithvi Raju thanks for the bump. We've been looking for a way to do this reliably, but at this time the risk of false positives that would end the session prematurely is too high. Either way, it's something we do want to solve eventually, we just didn't have the right solution yet.

Julian Pscheid For Zoom, there are a couple of ways to check the status of a meeting that I have come across. Feel free to use these to implement auto-start/auto-stop if they meet your needs:
AppleScript Cron Job
if application "zoom.us" is running then
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "zoom.us"
if exists (menu item "Mute audio" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Meeting" of menu bar 1) then
set returnValue to "Unmuted"
else if exists (menu item "Unmute audio" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Meeting" of menu bar 1) then
set returnValue to "Muted"
else
set returnValue to "Idle"
end if
end tell
end tell
else
set returnValue to "Idle"
end if
return returnValue
Check open ports use by Zoom during meetings. If the Zoom app is simply running with no meeting, it should return 1. If a meeting is in progress, it will return a value greater than 1.
lsof -i 4UDP | grep zoom | awk 'END{print NR}'

Also check out apps like Shadow.do as they implement pretty reliable meeting detection for a variety of apps.

Prithvi Raju

AJ Also other apps that have this reliably detected on desktop are Quill (quillmeetings.com) & Macwhisper (goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper). Although closed source, devs might assist.

Kenessary Tolembek, Prithvi

I guess it would help if you voted to bump this up in addition to commenting on this idea.

Kenessary Tolembek

Google Meet should be there as well. Those are the Big 3 in the online meeting world. I think WebEx and Chime take less than 5% of the market.

Prithvi

This would really help; there are cases where I forget to turn this off and recording would have gone for really long. Even a reminder on silence windows will help. Kindly prioritise this.