Introduction
The Vibe User Preferences allow a user to control how Vibe operates on startup and under normal operation. Vibe's user Preferences are set by clicking on the Menu button in the upper left of the application and then by clicking on 'Preferences'. Once you do that the following pop-up window will be shown:
General Settings
There are two startup options listed at the very top of the Preferences window. These are Auto Login and Language.
Language
The language used the in Vibe will be English unless you select a different language from the drop-down menu at the top of the window.
Disable Screen Saver While In Meetings
If you happen to be in meetings where you don't interact with your keyboard or mouse, the computer's screen saver may get enabled. This setting will prevent the screen saver from enabling while you are in a meeting.
Auto Sign-In
Checking the Auto Sign-In box (or unchecking it) determines whether Vibe proceeds directly into the application or stops and prompts at the Sign-In page each time.
Always display Sign-In screen first
Audio
System Sounds Volume
The System Sounds Volume slider control lets the user control how loud the different Vibe system sounds are relative to their overall system volume.
Microphone on when entering meeting
Enabling the "Microphone on when entering meeting" option will cause your selected Microphone to automatically be enabled for every meeting that you join. If you do not enable this feature, you'll need to click on the microphone for every room that you enter to enable it.
Auto Gain Control
The Auto Gain Control (AGC) feature adjusts the microphone input value automatically. If you have issues with your microphone always going to the maximum setting you may want to disable this setting.
Enable Echo Suppression
Echo suppression code attempts to deal with echo caused by your microphone picking up sounds from your speakers. Users with headsets don't generally require this. In most cases, however, the user will want to leave this enabled.
Video
Camera on when entering meeting
Enabling the "Camera on when entering meeting" option will cause your last selected camera to automatically be enabled for every meeting that you join. If you do not enable this feature, you'll need to click on the camera for every room that you enter to enable it.
User Grouping
Each user can have multiple videos coming from their clients. Enabling User Grouping will contain all of the videos and user deskshare together in a "Picture-in-Picture" display.
You can select which video is larger with the double box icon (as shown in the screenshot above. The inset video can also be moved around by dragging it.
Show only active Videos
Users can choose to display video or not. If users do not show video, by default they will be represented by a still image they have uploaded. If as a user you'd like to save desktop space and not show the still images, you can enable 'Show only active Videos' and not display the still images.
Disable Animations
Animations are used as windows open or close or as you join and exit rooms. To speed up the display you may want to disable these animations which is the purpose of the 'Disable Animations' setting.
Change Still Image
The still image is displayed when the camera is enabled but no video cameras are enabled. This can also be seen in Menu -> Configuration -> Camera Configuration
Chat
Incoming Chat Sounds
The user can select whether Vibe plays a notification tone every time a new message arrives.
User Enters/Leaves Sounds
The user can select whether Vibe plays a notification tone every time a user arrives or leaves the meeting room.
Show Popup When Hidden
The user can determine if popup messages are displayed or not when the Vibe application is hidden.
Show Popup for Hidden Tabs
Popup messages for Appliaction Tabs that are hidden can be shown (or not) with this setting. App Tab popup messages may interrupt other actions in Vibe and require that they be closed first.
Use a Compact Message Style
The setting "Use a Compact Message Style" will disable avatars in the Chat window and simply show different user names in different colors.
System Message
Informational messages from the system can be enabled or disabled or show only your own with this setting. System messages will be sent if somebody in a Meeting Room you are in is having connectivity troubles.
SIP
Vibe has SIP Softphone capabilities built in. This is where you control the registration information required to register to the SIP system.
Register / unRegister
The Register button will allow you test the registration immediately. If successful, a green light will be shown and the window will indicate 'Registered' where it says 'Not Registered' at the top of the window.
Registrar
The Registrar is the SIP server (or SIP Domain) that you'd like to register to. Sometimes your SIP user account is represented as sip:user@domain or sip:user@server. This entry would be 'server' or 'domain'.
User
This is the user part of your SIP registration. Sometimes your SIP user account is represented as sip:user@domain or sip:user@server. This entry would be the 'user'.
Auth User
The Auth User setting is used by some registrars (such as Cisco Call Manager) for authentication purposes. Your system administrator will supply this to you if your system uses Auth User.
Password
The SIP password for your Registrar should be provided to you by a system administrator. This is usually a complex and long value for security purposes.
Use TCP
If your SIP system utilizes TCP based signaling vs. UDP signaling this can be enabled with this check box.
Auto Register
Will cause Vibe to automatically register to your SIP registrar each time Vibe is started.
Allow Inbound
The Allow Inbound setting controls whether you'd like to be able to receive phone calls in the Vibe client or not.
Auto Answer
If any call comes in, your meeting audio will be muted and you'll automatically answer the call.
Ringtones
The Ringtones button allows you to select a WAV file and set the playback volume of the ringtone.
Wav File
Click on the 'Wav File' button to pick a WAV file.
Slider
The slider control below the 'Wav File' button controls the ringtone volume.
New
Clicking on 'New' will allow you to set up a ringtone for a specific incoming caller.
Defaults
Returns Ringtones to the default settings.
Close
Closes the Ringtones screen.
Deskshare
Auto Transmit
Automatically start Deskshare when you click on the deskshare button. If Auto Transmit is disabled, a warning message will be displayed before Deskshare starts.
Show Share Locally
This controls whether the user sees their own deskshare or not. This might be useful if you are interested in what the other users in the Meeting Room can see.
Auto Deskshare Grouping
This setting controls whether Deskshare windows are automatically grouped with other video tiles from other users in a Meeting Room.
Keyboard Shortcuts
There are keyboard shortcuts for most actions in Vibe. This setting will let you control what keys are used for the different actions.
To change a particular shortcut, click on the current shortcut and then press the key sequence you'd like to use.