All scheduled RingCentral Video meetings require a host. The host can configure the video meeting settings so that other participants can join earlier than the scheduled time or run the meeting without the host. This is helpful when the host will be late for the meeting or if the host can’t attend.
If a meeting does not allow participants to join before the host starts the meeting, the participants will get the notification ‘Waiting for host’ when they join the meeting before the host.