1. 2 years ago on Feb.9.2010 | Notes: 12

    iHome+Sleep 101

    Some users have asked for an instruction manual for our app.  This is for you. Other users ignored our app’s first-use pop-up tutorials.  If you did and regret it, this too is for you.

    What follows is a quick run through of iHome+Sleep, our new free app.  The goal is to get users familiar with some of the layout, features, and unique terminology.  If still not enough to get you going, please visit our Get Satisfaction page and see if other users or our employees can help you out in that forum.  Then if you must still, please email us.

    The Home Screen

    The home screen has a few things going on, organized into a few glass “panes” floating above a “card slot”.

    1. Clock pane with bedtime/wakeup event slider controls
    2. Weather widget pane
    3. iPod controls (hidden in above image)

    The card slot is the fourth major component of the home screen.  On the front face of the card slot, are two icons, they give users access to two important sections of the app.

    1. Sleep Card Manager
    2. Backside of the app with access to Stats and Settings

    When you first download iHome+Sleep, there are no cards loaded.  So you will see an empty card slot.   You can go to the Sleep Card Manager and configure your first “Sleep Card.”

    Sleep Card Manager

    When you enter the sleep card manager, press the big plus sign to make a new card.  A new blank card will appear with the card settings view to edit…

    You can make two types of cards, a Alarm, or a Nap.  They differ primarily in how the alert rings at a set time, or after a set amount of time.

    Scroll down and set all kinds of things:

    • custom card name
    • alarm time (or nap timer for naps)
    • alarm repeat schedule (by days of week)
    • snooze time - how long the snooze period will be between alarm alerts
    • vibrate
    • Sleep-to music - what you wish to start playing after sliding Bedtime
    • Sleep timer - how long you will hear music after sliding Bedtime
    • Wake-to music - what you wish to start playing for a wakeup sound
    • Choose reminders to show yourself at bedtime or wakeup
    • Choose social media alerts to fire off at bedtime or wakeup
    • delete your sleep card

    When you’ve configured how you want to go to bed and wake up, you can “save & set” the card, or simply flip it back around to the front face using the “gear” icon, Then drag it down into the slot below.

    Once the card is in the slot, it is a “set” alarm.  You can remove it by tapping it or by sliding it out.

    If you have multiple cards configured, you will be able to browse them by swiping left and right in the Sleep Card manager.  They look nice don’t they?

    If you have multiple cards in the slot, you can view them by swiping the card slot left or right.

    You can make more cards or return to the home screen by pressing “Close.”

    App Backside

    The app’s backside has two major sections.

    1. Stats
    2. Settings

    First, the sleep stats… Right now this is a simple summary of your sleep patterns based on when you slide bedtime and wakeup.

    Therefore, to start seeing your stats, at night, slide the bedtime slider, and in the morning, slide the wakeup slider (see next image).

    Secondly, the Settings… this is where the app can become very personal.  The following is a list of each Settings menu item and what it’s good for…

    • Weather - turn on or off the weather display.  Also lets you toggle between F and C.
    • Accounts - enter you twitter and facebook account info so iHome+Sleep can post messages to these accounts
    • Reminders - manage your reminders… add, delete, edit…
    • Messages - manage the messages you may want to send to twitter and facebook.  These add some convenience to say goodnight without typing it everytime… add, delete, edit…
    • Bedtime Dimmer - sets the display dimmer level that the homescreen will use after bedtime and before wakeup.
    • Home Screen Background - allows you to pick a homescreen background from your personal photos
    • Overnight News - turn this on to wake up to a summary of your twitter and facebook account activity while you were sleeping
    • Clear stats - reset your sleep stats
    • iA5 - Coming soon.  Hardware specific features for customers of the iHome iA5.
    • About - Access version info as well as send us feedback without leaving the app.

    We hope this run-through is useful, but still firmly believe the best way to get to know the app is to use it!

    You also may like to review the videos from around the web that show our app in action.  We’ve collected some of them here.

    Thanks.

    We love hearing everyone’s feedback, and look forward to making iHome+Sleep as robust as possible.

    ——

    Some known issues at the time of this post (reference app version 1.1.1):

    • International Weather: Right now the weather feed only supports USA weather, so international customers can go to Settings > Weather > Display weather OFF to hide the weather widget until information service is added (soon).
    • iPod Control: We are working on adding a more complete set of iPod controls to this pane.

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