PetVibes Help

The Main view is the focus of PetVibes

This view loads at startup.

The first time you start PetVibes

or after a Factory Reset, a simple Button will be shown to help you select a Pet to be displayed here.

This is an image of PetVibes running on an iPad.

When you first load PetVibes you are brought to the Pets Page so that you may select a Pet for your "Home" page.

These default Pets are provided to help you get started with PetVibes.

You may add your own Pets, and you may delete these Pets included with PetVibes.

When adding your own Pets, you may take a picture or load an existing picture.

Here this Pet has been selected on a Samsung phone.

Pet the screen (move your finger over it) for tactile feedback. Feel your cat purr, your lion roar, your pet moan / hum / ...

Swipe right, and if you have attached one or more "Petters" to this "Pet", then you may quickly send them a message.

Pets

The Pets navigation item allows you to

Select a Pet for the Main View
Add new Pets
Edit a Pet
- Change the name
- Add/change the description of this pet.
- Select an image that is on your device, or take a picture with your camera.
- Attach one or more Petters to this Pet.
Delete a Pet
- Restore a deleted Pet
- Permanently delete a Pet

Add a Pet

Images of PetVibes running on
a Samsung Phone.

When the use the "Add Pet" button, you may add a new Pet to your list.

You must add a unique Name for this Pet

You may

Enter a description.
Add an image that is already on your phone,
Take a picture with your camera.
Link a Petter to this Pet (for sending vibes in the Main view).

Be sure to use the Save button so save your changes (will be enabled when you make a change).

Note - on Apple products, the color of the button may not change to indicate that it is enabled depending on the device and OS. Please note that if you follow these procedures, that the button will be enabled.

Select a Pet for the Main view

This is an image of PetVibes running on
a Samsung Phone.

When the "Active Selection" is Load, then you may select any Pet to have it loaded into the Main view.

The Main view with then instantly display the selected pet.

The Active Selection

This is an image of PetVibes running on
a Samsung Phone.

Here the current Active Selection is "Edit"

When you Press on "Edit", the "Active Selection dialog" will appear.

Load - select this to instantly load a Pet into the Main View.
Corral (delete) - select this to delete Pets every time you select a Pet.
Edit - select this to Edit a Pet every time you select a particular Pet.

Corral (delete) a Pet

This is an image of PetVibes running on
a Samsung Phone.

The first time you Select a Pet when the Active Selection is set to "Corral", the Pet will appear as shown to the left (white background).

If you Corral (delete) this Pet again, you will be prompted to either

Permanently delete it,
Restore this Pet.

Vibes

This is an image of Vibes running on a Windows computer.

Notice that Vibes you send have the Image (if there is one), Name and 'Vibe' along the left edge and 'how long ago' you sent it at the right edge of this page.

The Filter combobox allows you to view:

Received Vibes
Sent Vibes
Both
Vibes sent 'This week'
Deleted (Corralled vibes)

The On Select combobox allows you to decide what happens when you select a 'Vibe':

Vibe this Petter - send a quick 'Vibe' to this Petter
Show this Petter - allows you to Edit this Petter's information
Filter by this Petter - only show this Petter's 'Vibes'
Delete - every 'Vibe' you select will be removed and placed into the "Corral". See below to permanently delete Vibes.

Note: the headings Filter and On Select only appear in this header on Computers. On a smartphone they do not appear, only the combobox appears as shown below

The On Select combobox changes when you are viewing Corralled (Deleted) Vibes:

Restore - this Vibe is returned to the 'Vibes' view (for received Vibes)
Permanently delete - caution must be exercised here; every Vibe you select will be immediately and permanently deleted.
Vibes are not permanently kept online after they have been delivered to the recipient.
They are only kept on your local device.
Hence if you permanently delete a Vibe, it is permanent!

Sending a Vibe is fast and easy.

Petters

Create an Invitation - invite others to join you.
Accept an Invitation - enter the code from a friend's invitaton.

Before you Add a Petter (connection), your PetVibes will be strictly offline.

When you first Add a Petter, you will register an anonomous, random integer to identify your PetVibes Instance with our Server(s) and obtain a Token that you will then share with friends and/or family.

This Instance Identifier is anonomous; we do not collect any personal information other than temporary nicknames that are transferred between you and potential connections.

Create an Invitation to share with friends and family

The nickname is optional; if you don't want to enter a name, then leave it blank.

Accept an Invitation

You may toggle each type of action:

Press the Accept an invitation sent to you button once and the Accept invitation form is shown (left).
Press the Button again and it is hidden and both Buttons appear again (right).

There may be slight difference in how PetVibes appears in Windows, an android (right), iPhone (left), iPad, or tablet, however, the functionality is the same.

Settings

Images of Settings on a Windows Computer.

You may disable Haptic feedback if you don't want the Main view to provide tactile feedback when you move your finger on your display.

Once you Add a Petter (have Invited a connection to a friend, or Accepted an invitation) PetVibes will check for new connections or Vibes periodically, and PetVibes will notify you when connecting online unless you turn off this notification.

In this image the user has scrolled down showing our logo, status, version and copyright notice.

Notice that the Status is online (below our logo & PetVibes.net) even though the Setting above shows that Connect online is turned off.

This is by design; Status indicates that PetVibes is capable of being online (this user does have internet) and may connect online if the Connect online setting is turned on.

You may turn off Connecting online if you no longer wish to receive Vibes or Petters. This option will be disabled if:

you don't have a connection to the Internet
you haven't initiated a connection to our Server(s) by Adding a Petter.

The Primary Settings include:

Haptic Feedback
Notifications
Language:
- English
- French
- Spanich
- German
- Japanese
- addional languages may be added at a later date
Theme:
- System - use the theme that is the default choice as set in your phone.
- Light - override the default setting, or set manually to light if your phone doesn't specify a Light or Dark theme.
- Dark

Secondary Actions include:

Restore Backup
Reset Token for Petter Invitations
Technical Support
Reset Connection
Factor Reset

Restore Backup

When you change your settings and save the changes, a backup of your previous settings is created.

If you Restore Backup then the previous settings are restored.

You undo your last changes.

Reset Token for Petter Invitations

When you first Invite a connection (Petter) you create a token that can be shared with one, or many friends.

Should you decide to prevent that invitation from being used to connect with you, then you would choose this button to create a new token for invitations.

For example, if you took a screen shot of your Invitation and posted it on social media, then you decide that too many people are accepting your invitation, then you could use this process to invalidate the original inviation while creating a new invitation.

Technical Support

Reset Connection

Factory Reset

Extreme caution must be used with these two Actions, which is why they are disabled by default.

To enable these actions, you may "Show" then "Hide" these Actions 3 times. On the 3'rd time showing (without navigating to a new page, such as "Petters") these actions, the Buttons will be enabled.

Reset Connection

This should never be necessary, and should only be undertaken if your system has become corrupted. This will be evident if communication with our Server(s) fails repeatedly.

If this happens you should contact technical support first.

You will be prompted to confirm you choice, and warned that this may invalidate your Petters and Vibes.

Factory Reset

Similar to "Reset Connection", this should only be done for the following reasons:

your system has been corrupted and you repeatedly receive error messages about connecting to our Server(s) while you have internet access available to your device.
You should check with "Technical support" before initiating a Factory Reset.
you have been using PetVibes with other people and no longer wish to interact with others.
This will result in an 'offline' use of PetVibes, unless you again decide to connect with other people.

It should be noted that all of 'your' Pets, Petters and Vibes will be lost.

For this reason, you will be prompted twice to confirm you choice to do a Factory Reset.

Technical Support

An image of Technical support on an iPhone.

In order to use this Page, you must have:

Contacted Technical Support through our website at https://PetVibes.net
Validated your email address
Obtained a Ticket Code and Confirmation token

You would then enter these in the marked fields and then use the Process button.

If the ticket and token are correct, then the needed updates will happen automatically.

Additional instructions may be given at that time, such as "restarting the application".

While PetVibes (the application) does not require person information, technical support does (email address) in order to get the proper instructions and tokens to you while confirming that this information isn't sent to a 3'rd party's email address.

Warning: numerous, repeated 'failed' attempts with the wrong code and/or token may result in your application instance being blocked from accessing our Server(s).

This service should not be used except when catastrophic corruptions occurs within your device. If for example your application becomes corrupt and you repeatedly receive error messages when connecting to our Server(s), including after restarting your application, then this might be a means of restoring your application before having to do a Factory Reset.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is the picture I take on my iPhone sideways on PetVibes?
There is an bug with the interface PetVibes uses to take pictures on apple devices that rotates the picture. While we work on a fix for this bug, you should take a picture with your camera directly, and then Select it in PetVibes as an Image.
I have just sent a vibe to a friend. My friend has the message but it isn't showing up in my Vibes
Check the "Filter" selection box at the top left of the screen. You must select "Both" to view both Sent and Recevied Vibes.
I want to change the description of a petter however the Save button remain disabled.
There is an issue with some apple devices that prevents the enabling of a button from being displayed. As long as you have a name for the Petter and an image, even if the Save button 'appears' to be grayed out, it will still work.