Use the Meet touchscreen to control audio and video

To join a scheduled meeting, just tap the meeting name on the touchscreen. 

If you don’t see the name on the touchscreen:

1. In the event invitation, get the meeting code or name. 
2. On the touchscreen, tap Enter a code or nickname,enter the code or name, and tap Join.

1. Tap Enter a code or nicknameand tap Join.
2. Share the meeting code with the people you’re meeting.

Tip:Meeting codes generated by the Meet touch controller, will expire when all users leave the meeting. Learn about Google Meet meeting codes .

With Connect Room in Meet, you can quickly start meetings inside Meet rooms from your laptop. This feature saves time and simplifies the process to join and start meetings.

Important:This feature isn’t available to all users yet. However, you can access it through the Google Meet external preview rooms program.

Start a meeting with Connect room:

Before you begin

To access Connect Room in Meet, your administrator must first turn on the Proximity Detection device setting in the Admin console. Learn how to turn proximity on or off for Meet hardware devices .

1. Enter a Google Meet Hardware enabled conference room.
2. On your laptop, go to Google Meet .
3. On the Meet page, you can either:
   • Enter a code or nickname click Join.
   • Select a scheduled meeting.
4. It re-directs you to the pre-meeting, also known as the green room. Once in the green room, on the right side of your screen, the “Use Companion mode” button changes to “Room detected” and then transitions to “Connect Room.”
5. Click Connect room.
   • You can directly join the meeting via the Google Meet Hardware device and your laptop automatically checks into the room through Companion Mode.
   • When you’re in Companion Mode, you can:
     • Use Meet features that aren’t available through the Meet Hardware device. This includes features such as Q&A and Polling.
     • Make your presence easily recognizable when multiple people join a meeting from the same room. Learn how to use Companion mode for better collaboration .

   For more details about using Connect Room in Meet, go to Use Connect room feature in Google Meet .

1. Tap More actions   People.
2. Tap  Add people.
3. Enter the email of the new participant and tap  Send invite.

1. More actions   People.
2. Tap  Add people. 
3. Tap Call .
4. Enter the phone number.
5. (Optional) To open the keypad to enter additional numbers, such as an extension, select the phone number from the participant listtap Dial .
6. If you need to hang up, select the phone number from the participant listtap  End call. 

Participants can join using a meeting code, dial-in phone number, or PIN. To see this information for the current meeting, tap  View meeting details.

During a video meeting, you can see the list of participants on the touchscreen. To control their participation and who you can see, tap the participant, and then choose an option:

• More actions   People.
• Tap the participant, and then choose an option:
  • To mute a participant, tap Mute .
    If you mute someone, you cannot unmute them. They need to unmute themselves. 
  • To see a participant on the display in a room, regardless of who is speaking, tap More  Pin .
  • To remove someone from the video meeting, tapMore  Remove . If you want them to rejoin, you have to reinvite them to the meeting. 

• To adjust the speaker volume in the room, tap the volume buttons to increase or decrease the volume. drag the volume control.
• To mute or unmute the room, tap Microphone.

Turn the room camera on or off

On the home screen, tap Camera.

Automatically frame participants

Use Dynamic tiles to automatically frame meeting participants and adjust the layout. It gives up to 3 people their own video tile, so everyone is easier to see.

For details, see Learn about Dynamic layouts, Dynamic tiles & Face match .

1. On the touchscreen, tap More actions  Camera controls.
2. Select Dynamic tiles .

Enable device-based automatic framing

If you are connected to a pan tilt zoom camera from the Google Meet qualified peripherals list, then you can enable its device-based framing capability to automatically frame all the people in a room. 

1. On the touchscreen, tap  More actions  Camera controls.
2. Select an option such as Logitech automatic framingor Huddly smart framing.

For Poly devices, go to Poly Studio Support .

Manually control the camera

You can manually move the camera view if connected to a pan tilt zoom camera from the Google Meet qualified peripherals list. Manual PTZ controls are not available when using automatic framing.

1. On the touchscreen, tap More actions  Camera controls.
2. Select Manual controland use the following options.

The administrator or the meeting coordinator must turn on recording in the Google Admin console. For details, go to Turn recording on or off for Meet .

1. Start the meeting.
2. Tap More actions  Record.
3. Get consent from all participants and tap Start Recording.
4. Tap Closeto see the meeting participants or a presentation.
5. When the meeting is over, tap Stop recordingand Stop recordingagain to confirm.
   A link to the recording is emailed to the meeting organizer.

1. In a meeting, tap More actions   Activities Live streaming.
2. In a meeting, tap Start streaming  Start live stream.
3. To stop streaming, tap Stop streaming  Stop live stream.

For details, go to Set up a live stream .

• New chat messages appear as notifications on the display (not on the touchscreen).
• Tap Chatto view a chat during the meeting.
• Tap Chat history to see the previous chat messages for the meeting on the display screen in the room. You can only see chat messages on the display. You cannot use the touchscreen to respond.