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Auto-join

Auto-join

Auto-join makes the bot follow members into voice channels without anyone running /discmeet join. You pick which roles act as triggers; whenever a member with one of those roles enters a voice channel, the bot joins and starts recording automatically — joining and recording are a single action.

This is a Pro feature configured from the Settings tab on the dashboard .

When to use it

  • Recurring stand-ups where the host always joins first — the bot is just there waiting.
  • RPG tables where the DM should never have to remember to start recording.
  • Any team where one or two specific people drive when meetings happen.

Admin setup (browser)

  1. Open the dashboard 
  2. Select your server
  3. Go to Settings → Auto join
  4. Turn on Enable auto join & record
  5. Pick one or more trigger roles (the bot only follows members who hold one of these roles)
  6. Optional: pick specific voice channels to limit auto-join to. Leave empty to auto-join in any voice channel.
  7. Optional: under Record as RPG campaigns, map a voice channel to a campaign so auto-joining it records an RPG session instead of a meeting (see Record RPG sessions below)
  8. Save

When auto-join is on, at least one trigger role must be selected to save. The voice channel list is optional — empty means “any channel”. There is no separate record toggle: whenever the bot auto-joins, it records.

How it works

When a member enters a voice channel, the bot checks:

  1. Is auto-join enabled for this server?
  2. Does the member have one of the trigger roles?
  3. Is the entered channel allowed? (Either the channel scope is empty, or this channel is in the list.)
  4. Is the bot free to join? (See Multi-channel below.)

If all four are true, the bot joins and starts recording immediately, and posts the same control message you’d see after /discmeet join — Start/Stop buttons and recording status — to your notifications channel (or notes channel as a fallback).

Multi-channel

Auto-join uses the same routing as /discmeet join:

  • With multi-channel (Pro+) — assistant bots join in parallel; the main bot doesn’t need to be free.
  • Without it — if the main bot is already in another voice channel, auto-join is skipped for the new one. End the existing session first, or upgrade to Pro+ for multi-channel.

Behavior notes

  • Already recording in that channel? The bot stays put; the new member is added as a participant via the normal flow.
  • Trigger role removed mid-session? Doesn’t end the session; only entry triggers the bot.
  • Bots and other automated accounts never trigger auto-join, even if they hold a trigger role.

Record RPG sessions

By default an auto-join records a regular meeting. To record an RPG session instead, map a voice channel to a campaign under Record as RPG campaigns in the Auto join settings. When the bot auto-joins that channel, it records an RPG session for the mapped campaign; any channel without a mapping stays a normal meeting.

The mapping is per voice channel and configured from the dashboard only. Session notes post to the campaign’s channel — split into player and GM notes if the campaign has a GM channel set. You can still start a session manually with /discmeet start and pick the campaign.

Auto-join is independent of Consent opt-in:

  • Auto-join decides whether the bot joins and starts recording.
  • Consent opt-in decides whose voices are included in the resulting transcript.

If both are enabled, the bot will auto-join and start recording, but only consenting members appear in the transcript.

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