diff --git a/src/ElementCallView.tsx b/src/ElementCallView.tsx
index 72cf9ddaf..d0b3e4f34 100644
--- a/src/ElementCallView.tsx
+++ b/src/ElementCallView.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import { type MatrixClient } from "matrix-js-sdk";
 import { type MatrixRTCSession } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/matrixrtc";
 
 import { GroupCallView } from "./room/GroupCallView";
-import { type MuteStates } from "./state/MuteStates";
+import { useMuteStates } from "./state/useMuteStates";
 import { type UrlParams } from "./UrlParams";
 
 interface Props {
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ interface Props {
   client: MatrixClient;
   /** The call to join. */
   rtcSession: MatrixRTCSession;
-  /** The audio and video mute state to start from, and keep in step with. */
-  muteStates: MuteStates;
   /**
    * Whether the user is signed in as a guest, and so should be offered the
    * chance to create an account when the call ends.
@@ -40,15 +38,10 @@ interface Props {
  * showing one: no routing, no authentication, no resolving of room aliases.
  * Those belong to whatever is hosting it — the standalone app's own shell, or
  * an application embedding Element Call directly.
- *
- * TODO: `muteStates` is still passed in, because the standalone shell shares
- * one with the lobby it shows while waiting to be let into a room. Ownership
- * moves here once that lobby has its own.
  */
 export const ElementCallView: FC<Props> = ({
   client,
   rtcSession,
-  muteStates,
   isPasswordlessUser,
   confineToRoom,
   preload,
@@ -56,6 +49,9 @@ export const ElementCallView: FC<Props> = ({
 }): ReactNode => {
   // Whether the user is in the call is the call's own business, not its host's.
   const [joined, setJoined] = useState(false);
+  const muteStates = useMuteStates();
+
+  if (muteStates === null) return null;
 
   return (
     <GroupCallView
diff --git a/src/room/KnockLobbyView.tsx b/src/room/KnockLobbyView.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..39643b20c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/room/KnockLobbyView.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { type FC, type JSX, type ReactNode } from "react";
+import { type MatrixClient, type RoomSummary } from "matrix-js-sdk";
+import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
+import { CheckIcon } from "@vector-im/compound-design-tokens/assets/web/icons";
+
+import { LobbyView } from "./LobbyView";
+import { E2eeType } from "../e2ee/e2eeType";
+import { useMuteStates } from "../state/useMuteStates";
+
+interface Props {
+  client: MatrixClient;
+  /** What we know about the room from peeking at it. */
+  roomSummary: RoomSummary;
+  /** The user's own name and avatar, to show in their own tile. */
+  profile: { displayName: string; avatarUrl: string };
+  /**
+   * Asks to be let in, if the room allows it. Absent once we have asked and
+   * are waiting for an answer.
+   */
+  knock: (() => void) | null;
+  confineToRoom: boolean;
+  hideHeader: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The lobby shown while the user is outside a room they want to call in —
+ * either able to ask to join, or waiting for someone to answer.
+ *
+ * This belongs to the app shell rather than to the call: it exists precisely
+ * because there is no call to be in yet. It keeps its own mute state, which is
+ * why it is a component rather than part of the page — so that the call's mute
+ * state and this one are never alive at the same time, reporting over each
+ * other to the host.
+ */
+export const KnockLobbyView: FC<Props> = ({
+  client,
+  roomSummary,
+  profile,
+  knock,
+  confineToRoom,
+  hideHeader,
+}): ReactNode => {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  const muteStates = useMuteStates();
+
+  if (muteStates === null) return null;
+
+  const waitingForInvite = knock === null;
+  const enterLabel: string | JSX.Element = waitingForInvite ? (
+    <>
+      {t("lobby.waiting_for_invite")}
+      <CheckIcon />
+    </>
+  ) : (
+    t("lobby.ask_to_join")
+  );
+
+  return (
+    <LobbyView
+      client={client}
+      matrixInfo={{
+        userId: client.getUserId() ?? "",
+        displayName: profile.displayName,
+        avatarUrl: profile.avatarUrl,
+        roomAlias: null,
+        roomId: roomSummary.room_id,
+        roomName: roomSummary.name ?? "",
+        roomAvatar: roomSummary.avatar_url ?? null,
+        e2eeSystem: {
+          kind: roomSummary["im.nheko.summary.encryption"]
+            ? E2eeType.PER_PARTICIPANT
+            : E2eeType.NONE,
+        },
+      }}
+      onEnter={(): void => knock?.()}
+      enterLabel={enterLabel}
+      waitingForInvite={waitingForInvite}
+      confineToRoom={confineToRoom}
+      hideHeader={hideHeader}
+      participantCount={null}
+      muteStates={muteStates}
+      onShareClick={null}
+    />
+  );
+};
diff --git a/src/room/RoomPage.tsx b/src/room/RoomPage.tsx
index 604840e5f..f49509e30 100644
--- a/src/room/RoomPage.tsx
+++ b/src/room/RoomPage.tsx
@@ -6,21 +6,11 @@ SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
 Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
 */
 
-import {
-  type FC,
-  useEffect,
-  useState,
-  type ReactNode,
-  useRef,
-  type JSX,
-} from "react";
+import { type FC, useEffect, useState, type ReactNode, useRef } from "react";
 import { type MatrixError } from "matrix-js-sdk";
 import { logger } from "matrix-js-sdk/lib/logger";
 import { Trans, useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
-import {
-  CheckIcon,
-  UnknownSolidIcon,
-} from "@vector-im/compound-design-tokens/assets/web/icons";
+import { UnknownSolidIcon } from "@vector-im/compound-design-tokens/assets/web/icons";
 
 import { useClientLegacy } from "../ClientContext";
 import { ErrorPage, FullScreenView, LoadingPage } from "../FullScreenView";
@@ -29,22 +19,15 @@ import { ElementCallView } from "../ElementCallView";
 import { useRoomIdentifier, useUrlParams } from "../UrlParams";
 import { useRegisterPasswordlessUser } from "../auth/useRegisterPasswordlessUser";
 import { HomePage } from "../home/HomePage";
-import { useHostBridge } from "../HostBridge.ts";
 import { CallTerminatedMessage, useLoadGroupCall } from "./useLoadGroupCall";
-import { LobbyView } from "./LobbyView";
-import { E2eeType } from "../e2ee/e2eeType";
+import { KnockLobbyView } from "./KnockLobbyView";
 import { useProfile } from "../profile/useProfile";
 import { useOptInAnalytics } from "../settings/settings";
 import { Link } from "../button/Link";
 import { ErrorView } from "../ErrorView";
-import { useMediaDevices } from "../MediaDevicesContext";
-import { MuteStates } from "../state/MuteStates";
-import { ObservableScope } from "../state/ObservableScope";
-import { calculateInitialMuteState } from "../state/initialMuteState.ts";
 
 export const RoomPage: FC = (): ReactNode => {
   const urlParams = useUrlParams();
-  const hostBridge = useHostBridge();
   const { confineToRoom, preload, header, displayName, skipLobby } = urlParams;
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const { roomAlias, roomId, viaServers } = useRoomIdentifier();
@@ -63,26 +46,6 @@ export const RoomPage: FC = (): ReactNode => {
 
   const groupCallState = useLoadGroupCall(client, roomIdOrAlias, viaServers);
 
-  const devices = useMediaDevices();
-  const [muteStates, setMuteStates] = useState<MuteStates | null>(null);
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const scope = new ObservableScope();
-    setMuteStates(
-      new MuteStates(
-        scope,
-        devices,
-        calculateInitialMuteState(
-          urlParams.skipLobby,
-          urlParams.callIntent,
-          urlParams.isWidget,
-        ),
-        hostBridge,
-      ),
-    );
-    return (): void => scope.end();
-  }, [devices, urlParams, hostBridge]);
-
   useEffect(() => {
     // If we've finished loading, are not already authed and we've been given a display name as
     // a URL param, automatically register a passwordless user
@@ -123,64 +86,34 @@ export const RoomPage: FC = (): ReactNode => {
     switch (groupCallState.kind) {
       case "loaded":
         return (
-          muteStates && (
-            <ElementCallView
-              client={client!}
-              rtcSession={groupCallState.rtcSession}
-              isPasswordlessUser={passwordlessUser}
-              confineToRoom={confineToRoom}
-              preload={preload}
-              skipLobby={skipLobby || wasInWaitForInviteState.current}
-              muteStates={muteStates}
-            />
-          )
+          <ElementCallView
+            client={client!}
+            rtcSession={groupCallState.rtcSession}
+            isPasswordlessUser={passwordlessUser}
+            confineToRoom={confineToRoom}
+            preload={preload}
+            skipLobby={skipLobby || wasInWaitForInviteState.current}
+          />
         );
       case "waitForInvite":
       case "canKnock": {
         wasInWaitForInviteState.current =
           wasInWaitForInviteState.current ||
           groupCallState.kind === "waitForInvite";
-        const knock =
-          groupCallState.kind === "canKnock" ? groupCallState.knock : null;
-        const label: string | JSX.Element =
-          groupCallState.kind === "canKnock" ? (
-            t("lobby.ask_to_join")
-          ) : (
-            <>
-              {t("lobby.waiting_for_invite")}
-              <CheckIcon />
-            </>
-          );
         return (
-          muteStates && (
-            <LobbyView
-              client={client!}
-              matrixInfo={{
-                userId: client!.getUserId() ?? "",
-                displayName: userDisplayName ?? "",
-                avatarUrl: avatarUrl ?? "",
-                roomAlias: null,
-                roomId: groupCallState.roomSummary.room_id,
-                roomName: groupCallState.roomSummary.name ?? "",
-                roomAvatar: groupCallState.roomSummary.avatar_url ?? null,
-                e2eeSystem: {
-                  kind: groupCallState.roomSummary[
-                    "im.nheko.summary.encryption"
-                  ]
-                    ? E2eeType.PER_PARTICIPANT
-                    : E2eeType.NONE,
-                },
-              }}
-              onEnter={(): void => knock?.()}
-              enterLabel={label}
-              waitingForInvite={groupCallState.kind === "waitForInvite"}
-              confineToRoom={confineToRoom}
-              hideHeader={header !== "standard"}
-              participantCount={null}
-              muteStates={muteStates}
-              onShareClick={null}
-            />
-          )
+          <KnockLobbyView
+            client={client!}
+            roomSummary={groupCallState.roomSummary}
+            profile={{
+              displayName: userDisplayName ?? "",
+              avatarUrl: avatarUrl ?? "",
+            }}
+            knock={
+              groupCallState.kind === "canKnock" ? groupCallState.knock : null
+            }
+            confineToRoom={confineToRoom}
+            hideHeader={header !== "standard"}
+          />
         );
       }
       case "loading":
diff --git a/src/state/useMuteStates.ts b/src/state/useMuteStates.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ab35169f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/state/useMuteStates.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+Copyright 2026 Element Creations Ltd.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only OR LicenseRef-Element-Commercial
+Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
+*/
+
+import { useEffect, useState } from "react";
+
+import { MuteStates } from "./MuteStates";
+import { ObservableScope } from "./ObservableScope";
+import { calculateInitialMuteState } from "./initialMuteState";
+import { useMediaDevices } from "../MediaDevicesContext";
+import { useHostBridge } from "../HostBridge";
+import { useUrlParams } from "../UrlParams";
+
+/**
+ * Audio and video mute state, kept in step with the host.
+ *
+ * `null` until the media devices have been looked at, since what the user
+ * starts muted depends on what they have.
+ *
+ * Whoever shows the user their own camera owns one of these. Note there should
+ * only ever be one alive at a time: each reports the user's mute state to the
+ * host, so two would have them talking over each other.
+ */
+export function useMuteStates(): MuteStates | null {
+  const urlParams = useUrlParams();
+  const hostBridge = useHostBridge();
+  const devices = useMediaDevices();
+  const [muteStates, setMuteStates] = useState<MuteStates | null>(null);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const scope = new ObservableScope();
+    setMuteStates(
+      new MuteStates(
+        scope,
+        devices,
+        calculateInitialMuteState(
+          urlParams.skipLobby,
+          urlParams.callIntent,
+          urlParams.isWidget,
+        ),
+        hostBridge,
+      ),
+    );
+    return (): void => scope.end();
+  }, [devices, urlParams, hostBridge]);
+
+  return muteStates;
+}