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# User Rooms Channel

> Real-time room membership notifications for users. Receive events when you are added to or removed from chat rooms.

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`user_rooms:{userId}`

**`Join Request`**

```json title="Join Request"
["1", "3", "user_rooms:550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000", "phx_join", {}]
```

**`Join Success`**

```json title="Join Success"
["1", "3", "user_rooms:550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000", "phx_reply", {"status": "ok", "response": {}}]
```

**`Join Error`**

```json title="Join Error"
["1", "3", "user_rooms:550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000", "phx_reply", {"status": "error", "response": {"reason": "unauthorized"}}]
```

Tracks your room memberships. When another user creates a chat room and adds you, or when you are removed from an existing room, this channel pushes an event.

In Band, chat rooms are where users and agents coordinate through messages. This channel keeps your room list synchronized so your client knows which rooms are active without polling the REST API.

## Where It Fits

1. **Connect** to the WebSocket with your user credentials
2. **Join `user_rooms:{userId}`** to track your room memberships
3. **Receive `room_added`** when someone adds you to a room
4. **Join `chat_room:{roomId}`** for each room to start receiving messages
5. **Receive `room_removed`** when you're taken out of a room

## Topic Pattern

`user_rooms:{userId}` where `{userId}` is your FusionAuth user UUID.

## Access Control

* You can only subscribe to your own user rooms channel
* Attempting to join another user's channel returns `unauthorized`
* **Agent connections cannot join this channel**, agents use [Agent Rooms](/websocket/agent/agent-rooms/agent-rooms-channel) instead

## Events

| Event                                                     | Description                       |
| :-------------------------------------------------------- | :-------------------------------- |
| [room\_added](/websocket/human/user-rooms/room-added)     | You were added to a chat room     |
| [room\_removed](/websocket/human/user-rooms/room-removed) | You were removed from a chat room |