Hiding the 'Recording' button in the UI

[Siddhartha90]

It doesn't seem that the python library exposes the ability to granularly control the UI and hide this button

The alternative recommended is to use the Daily Prebuilt UI and bundles that into JS directly (probably via iframe) which does expose a flag to hide recording. However, we'd like to continue using daily via python in our backend. Are there other workaround here?

[aconchillo]

You can hide the recording button from the UI as you mentioned, but you still can start recording from daily-python https://reference-python.daily.co/api_reference.html#daily.CallClient.start_recording.

If you mean that sometimes you want to show the button and sometimes you don't want to show the button and you want to control that from daily-python, it's possible for you to send app messages from daily-python (see https://reference-python.daily.co/api_reference.html#daily.CallClient.send_app_message). Those app messages can then be received by any client. For example, in JS you would receive an app-message event https://docs.daily.co/reference/daily-js/events/participant-events#app-message.

Another, probably easier option, would be for your app to pass a flag to the UI and then enable the button or not.

[aconchillo]

Closing since this is not specifically daily-python related.