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With auto-start, Jamie begins recording on its own when joining a scheduled meeting - no clicks required.
Auto-start is available in the Jamie desktop app on Windows (version 5.7.7 and above) and macOS (version 5.7.13 and above). If you don’t see the setting, update to the latest version.

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How it works

Jamie watches for two signals at the same time:
  • Your microphone becomes active - for example when you join a call in Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or any other app that uses your mic.
  • A meeting is scheduled in your calendar - either starting within the next 5 minutes or having started within the last 10 minutes.
When both are true, Jamie automatically starts recording and opens the recorder. If there’s no matching event in your calendar, Jamie stays out of the way and does nothing.
Auto-start requires a connected calendar (Google Calendar or Outlook). Without a connected calendar, Jamie has no scheduled meetings to match your microphone activity against. Connect your calendar in Settings → Integrations.

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Managing auto-start

Auto-start is off by default. Turn it on when you want Jamie to handle starting for you. To review or change the setting:
  1. Open the Jamie desktop app
  2. Go to Settings → Preferences
  3. In section Meeting Automation toggle Automatically start Jamie on or off
You can also configure a countdown before Jamie starts - enabled by default - so you have a few seconds to cancel if you don’t want to record this meeting. Adjust Give me time to cancel and the countdown length in the same section.

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Only start for known meeting apps

By default, auto-start reacts to any app that activates your microphone. If that’s too eager - for example a voice memo or dictation tool triggering a recording - enable Only start for known meeting apps in the same section. Jamie will then only auto-start when your microphone is used by an app it recognizes as a meeting app. Independently of this option, apps on your Excluded apps list (Settings → Preferences → Excluded apps) never trigger auto-start - the same list that controls the automatic meeting detection reminder.
Only start for known meeting apps requires desktop app version 5.7.13 or above on both Windows and macOS.
This setting can only be changed in the Jamie desktop app. If you’re viewing your settings in the browser, open the desktop app to adjust it.
Prefer to decide meeting by meeting? Turn auto-start off and use the automatic meeting detection reminder instead, which prompts you with a Start Jamie button without recording automatically.

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When auto-start won’t trigger

To avoid unexpected recordings, Jamie will not auto-start when:
  • The Automatically start Jamie setting is turned off
  • You have no connected calendar, or there’s no meeting active or starting within the next 5 minutes
  • The meeting started more than 10 minutes ago
  • No app is using your microphone
  • A recording is currently already in progress
  • The app using your microphone is on your Excluded apps list
  • Only start for known meeting apps is enabled and the app using your microphone isn’t a recognized meeting app