Scenes, night and guest mode
Scenes through the dayβ
The Dock changes its look on a schedule built from your real wake and bed times in the main site's daily schedule. With no schedule it uses 6:30 am and 10:00 pm.
| Scene | When | What it's like |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | Wake time, for 2Β½ hours | Peach light, the routine and the weather |
| Day | After that | Chores and activity |
| Evening | The 2Β½ hours before bed | Dusk light, winding down |
| Night | From bedtime | A dark, dim face for a bedroom |
All the colors follow the scene, so the whole screen fades over when the light changes.
To give one screen its own times: Settings, then After bedtime, then Use different hours on this screen only. A caregiver can also do this from the corner's π Wakes up at and π Goes quiet at rows. Follow the app's hours again undoes it.
Your Dock gets sleepy at bedtime too. Tap π‘οΈ if someone comes in and you want it to look like a clock.
Nightβ
The night face is dark on purpose, so it's readable without lighting the room. In After bedtime you can show just a big quiet clock instead of the pages (one tap brings the pages back for a little while), and dim the whole screen.
Want night now? Use π Bedtime, then Tuck me in from the Everything menu. The Dock shows a dim Tucked in screen until your wake time.
Guest modeβ
The "someone just walked in" control. The Dock is replaced by a plain clock: no lock icon, no blur, no hint to tap. Even the browser tab says Clock. Tapping it does nothing.
Turn it on first in Settings, then If someone walks in, then Let me switch to a plain clock. With that off, the gestures below do nothing.
Getting inβ
- Tap the π‘οΈ shield at the top.
- Hold the top bar.
- Press Escape on a keyboard.
It's instant and needs no connection. It also sticks: a reload, crash or power blip won't reveal the Dock.
Entering guest mode switches the monitor off straight away, camera and microphone both.
Getting outβ
Hold anywhere on the clock for about a second. A progress bar appears so you know it's working. Pressing Escape three times also works.
If Ask for my password to come back is on, you'll need your account password either way.
Optionsβ
In Settings, then If someone walks in:
- What a visitor sees: A clock, or A photo frame (a soft gradient with a small clock, never your photos).
- Switch to the clock on its own after: Never, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes or 1 hour without a touch. Handy for a screen in a room people walk through.
- Ask for my password to come back.
Whether guest mode is on is remembered by this tablet only.
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