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Determine the best location for your Owl
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Feel free to experiment with the placement of the Owl to best suit your needs.
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Plugging in the owl
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Plug in the USB
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and power adapter cables into the bottom of the meeting owl.
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Plug the USB cable to your computer and the power adapter into an outlet. (Preferably USB 3.0 port as shown below.)
You should see the owl light up and “Hoot” once connected properly.
Connecting to the owl
Load your video conferencing platform and choose the Meeting Owl for audio and video.
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Load your video conferencing platform and select the Meeting Owl as your video, microphone, and speaker. The Meeting Owl Pro works with video conferencing software like Zoom, GoToMeeting, Skype, Cisco WebEx, and moreThe Owl should already be selected as the microphone and camera, but if it isn’t, here’s how we get to the settings to do that. This process is similar while using platforms other than Zoom. Icons or locations of icons may vary.
While in a Zoom call, click the small arrow next to the “Mute” button in the bottom left.
Make sure “Meeting Owl” is selected for both the microphone and the speaker.
Click the small arrow next to the “Video” button in the bottom left.
Make sure “Meeting Owl” is selected for the Camera.
Owl Functions
The Owl learns where people are sitting in the room. If a new person sits at the table, or if you speak, then move to another location and speak again, it can take up to 5 seconds for the video to switch. Switching may take longer the further away you are sitting from the Owl. For testing purposes, we recommend testing with multiple people in the room with the Owl.
Troubleshooting an issue
If you find that the owl is not acting as expected, try the following in no particular order:
Unplug the USB from the computer and plug it back in.
Unplug the micro-USB from the bottom of the meeting owl and plug it back in.
Unplug the power cable from the bottom of the meeting owl and plug it back in.
Unplug the power cable from the outlet and try a different outlet.
Remove a USB extender. USB signal can only transmit audio and video so far before it starts to fail.