The Nest webinar recap

The Nest is Owl Labs’ fleet administration platform that offers clients unparalleled entry to all of their Owl gadgets. On September thirteenth, 2023, we hosted a stay webinar showcasing the ability of the Nest, its newest options, and our prime ideas for ensuring you get probably the most out of each your Nest expertise and your Owl gadgets. 

After you signal into the Nest, you’ll see your customized Dashboard, which gives a fast abstract of all excellent points and a complete view of the standing of all of the Owl gadgets that you just’ve marked as a favorites. This offers you the power to maintain a detailed eye on the standing of your most used gadgets and know instantly if any excellent points should be addressed. 

These statuses replace in real-time, so you possibly can shortly examine in to see which gadgets are getting used. The abstract part additionally reveals which gadgets have a software program replace out there, and offers you the choice to set off that replace with the press of a button. 

The Units tab offers you entry to the complete checklist of Owl gadgets that belong to your group in a single easy-to-read checklist. This tab gives data just like the title of every machine, real-time use standing, machine serial quantity, the present software program model that every machine is operating, and the geographical location of every machine. 

The Units tab is a go-to supply of Owl machine data for any IT supervisor. One of many options that units Owl gadgets aside is their capacity to study over time due to their AI-driven software program. To maximise that potential, it’s important that organizations maintain their Owl gadgets up to date to the newest software program model. The Units tab present software program model column marks gadgets with out-of-date software program with an orange exclamation level, so IT managers can simply establish and replace outdated Owls straight from this display screen. 

Do you know you can give every machine a customized title? Owl puns are closely inspired.  

The Units tab additionally permits customers to view analytics for every Owl machine listed. At the moment, the analytics out there within the Nest present a timeline abstract of the variety of conferences held by every Owl and the typical variety of in-room assembly contributors in contrast over the identical time period. 

To make machine administration even simpler, the Units tab permits customers to pick out a number of gadgets directly, and apply setting modifications throughout all of them concurrently. 

By clicking into a selected Owl machine out of your full checklist, you might be delivered to a tool particulars web page, which as senior product supervisor, Mark Whitehead mentioned through the webinar “…is the place the enjoyable begins.” The machine particulars web page reveals you all the things you should learn about your Owl machine. You’ll be able to edit the machine title, search for (and provoke) any software program updates, and discover all of the salient particulars about your machine, together with its serial quantity, location, standing, registered e-mail, and extra. 

Maybe most significantly, the machine particulars web page lets you change all of the settings to your Owl machine. This consists of video settings like Presenter Improve, Pano View, and Vertical Video Flip, together with audio settings like Noise Discount and Double Speak. You’ll be able to even set an Owl Passcode from this display screen if you happen to’d prefer to have your machine passcode locked. 

Adjustments to settings will take impact instantly (so long as the machine is on-line), which implies that IT managers can remotely troubleshoot throughout a stay assembly if wanted.

To make IT supervisor’s lives even simpler, the Nest features a Fleet Administration tab. On this part, customers are given the choice to regulate some settings for his or her total fleet of gadgets. For instance, that is the world the place customers can select whether or not they need to allow or disable automated software program updates for all of their gadgets and add or take away the Owl Labs emblem from the assembly display screen.

The Fleet Settings part can also be the place you possibly can alter your data-sharing permissions. This data-sharing part refers back to the basic machine utilization and assembly metrics that energy the analytics tab. It’s value noting that Owl Labs doesn’t acquire, retailer, or transmit any visible or audio information, even when data-sharing permissions are turned on. 

The Staff tab is the part that lets you add new workforce members to your Nest account, and edit their permissions. Nest customers can both be added as an administrator or a member. Directors have the ability to edit something within the Nest, together with Fleet-wide settings, whereas members can solely edit particular person machine settings. 

Will older variations of the Owl work with the Nest, or have they got to be the Assembly Owl 3’s?

Sure! They may work with the Nest. 

Is there a option to do comparative analytics evaluating utilization? I am pondering of gadgets in two completely different rooms in addition to two gadgets in the identical room.

Sure! We’ve analytics that let you know the utilization.

Can an administrator log right into a sure Owl and watch remotely?

No, we don’t acquire or retailer video or audio streaming information, so with a purpose to see what’s occurring in a gathering with an Owl, they’d have to affix that assembly hyperlink through Zoom, Meet, and many others. 

The Nest is an extremely highly effective fleet administration platform if you know the way to make use of it accurately. This webinar is a good place to begin for anybody occupied with maximizing the potential of their Owl gadgets. For those who have been unable to affix the webinar, don’t fear! We’ve a whole recording of the webinar you can watch right here. For any extra questions, please be happy to succeed in out to hi there@owllabs.com.