If Vinyl isn't automatically joining your scheduled Google Meet meetings, it's usually one of a few things: nobody admitted it to the meeting, it isn't set to record that meeting, your calendar needs reconnecting, or the meeting isn't in your calendar.

This guide will help you check what's going wrong and how to fix it.

Vinyl joins Google Meet as a guest, so the meeting host needs to admit it. Vinyl waits up to 10 minutes to be admitted, then leaves. Recording Google Meet meetings with Vinyl explains how the waiting room works.

Vinyl relies on your connected calendar (Google or Outlook) to detect and join upcoming meetings. Google Meet links in an Outlook calendar are joined too. If a meeting was created manually inside Google Meet without a matching calendar event, Vinyl won't be able to join it.

To check:

If the meeting does not exist in your calendar, Vinyl cannot detect or join it automatically.

Vinyl needs access to your calendar to work properly. If you've recently changed your password or revoked permissions, the integration may need to be refreshed. If your calendar card on the Integrations page says Reconnect needed, click Reconnect.

Learn how to connect or reconnect your Google Calendar.

If the meeting wasn't added to your calendar or Vinyl didn't join, you can still capture the meeting manually using the ad-hoc capture option.

If you've checked everything and Vinyl still isn't joining, chat with us below. You can also find more tips in our Google Meet FAQs.