VV Family
Videovisit Family - user guide
Videovisit Family - user guide
Supported devices
Supported devices
- Works on Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS & Android OS
- This service is recommended to be used on a laptop or desktop PC/Mac with external audio- and videodevices (headset and webcam)
- This service can not be used on the following operating systems: Windows Phone and other rarer operating systems
Laptops and desktop systems
Laptops and desktop systems
Supported browser based operating systems and browsers - Videovisit recommends using newest version of Chrome or Firefox browser
- Windows 7 - Chrome, Firefox
- Windows 8 - Chrome, Firefox
- Windows 8.1 - Chrome, Firefox
- Windows 10 - Chrome, Firefox, Chromium Edge
- MacOSX - Chrome, Firefox
- MacOS - Chrome, Firefox
- Linux variants - Chrome, Firefox
Mobile devices - getting started
Mobile devices - getting started
- Download the Videovisit Family -app from your mobile devices app store
- Application can be found on Play Store (android) and App Store (iOS)
- Once the app is downloaded, please log in using your Videovisit credentials
Mobile devices - User interface and calling
Mobile devices - User interface and calling
- Pressing the globe icon allows you to change the apps language before logging in.
- Options are Finnish, English and Swedish
- Log in by entering your Videovisit credentials (Username and password) and hit Sign in
- Settings -menu allows you to change the applications settings
- Select language - choose the app's language between English, Finnish and Swedish
- Terms of service - opens in your default browser
- Privacy policy - opens in your default browser
- Send feedback - a feedback form will open in your default browser
- Sign out - signs you out of the service
- Contacts - shows available contacts you can call to
- To initiate a video call, press the phone icon next to the contacts name
- Recent - Shows recent calls in descending order from latest to oldest
- Shows inbound and outbound calls. These are marked with an arrow up or down
- You can call a contact by pressing the phone icon next to that contact (just like how you'd call through the Contacts -interface)
- In-call UI layout- Shows participants and their status
- You'll see the other participant in fullscreen while your own and their videos can also be seen in the top right corner
- Shows an icon when a participant has muted their microphone or camera, as seen in the small icon in the top right
- Pressing the small pictures in the top corner makes the chosen participant focus, moving their video feed to fullscreen
- In-call settings - Tapping the screen while in a call open up in-call options
- Call duration and name of the focused participant shows up in the top left corner
- Settings - Allows you to change your camera feed (front, back etc.), microphone and speakers
- Mute - Mutes your microphone. Pressing this again unmutes mic.
- Disable camera - Disabled your camera. Pressing this again unmutes camera.
- Leave call - Ends the call and takes you to end call screen
- End call screen - shows after you've left the call
- Shows call duration
- Pressing Close takes you back to the page where you called initially