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Hello <@U03M7581MNF>, it is impossible to join multiple participants with the same identity in a same room. The first participant will be disconnected as soon as the second participant joins.

to extend on what Pat said:
`identity` is treated as a unique user id within each room, if you want to set a display name there’s also the `name` that you can set when generating a token

but I want to be able to be connected with the same identity from many devices: let’s say from the phone and from the computer

and be able to write texts from both devices

imagine how it is on all chat apps: you can switch from one device to another in the same chat

you should use a unique identity instead. i.e. `user-deviceId`

video isn't like chat, since we have to attribute each published video or audio track to a single `Participant` construct. for more information, please refer to <https://docs.livekit.io/concepts/api-primitives/#participant|our docs>

to expand on what David said: you could do this in your app, eg, imagine all your participant identities are like `andy:1`, `andy:2`, `andy:3`, etc, when connected from different devices, but your app could just render the UI for all of them with the label `andy`

(or you could have some in-memory data structure on your server managing the mapping between user-facing labels and participant identities)

Thank you for the suggestions David and Noah.
I’ll do that.