Video call the TV
Press Video call. The TV answers by itself: it turns on, switches to the Pi, chimes, and you fill the screen, with your voice from the TV. What you say is captioned along the bottom, big. In the app you see the room, with yourself small in the corner, and Mute and Hang up beside it.- More than one of you. While someone is on a call, the remote says so, and Join the call puts you on it too, up to four at once. The TV shows everyone side by side, each captioned under their name.
- Add someone. Add someone rings someone else in your account. Or make a link for anyone else, such as a doctor or a friend: they join from any phone or computer, with no app or account. A link works until the call ends.
- Camera off turns your camera off, and the TV shows your name instead.
- Share screen, on a computer, puts your screen on the TV in place of your camera.
- Whoever is at the TV can hang up with OK on the TV’s remote.
Drop in
Drop in shows what the camera sees, and plays what it hears, in the app. Nobody at the TV has to answer, and nothing from the app is seen or heard in the room.- The TV says so. A notice at the top of the screen says who dropped in, with a chime.
- Silent drop-ins, in the remote’s settings for that TV, turn the notice and chime off. Only the account’s owner can turn it on; anyone can turn it off. Each drop-in is noted in Activity.
- It ends with Leave, when you close the remote, or after 10 minutes.