Meeting Owl 4+

The Owl Pro is a great device, but it would be better to have audio controls included in the mobile app. We sometimes use our Owl to allow panelists and other briefers speak to our staff remotely, and the people in the room with the owl aren’t always close enough to the camera or the laptop running the meeting to mute/unmute the device. If there were audio controls built into the app then it would make those meetings run much smoother. I wish it worked more like the Echo Dot with controls on the device and in the app.

Beyond functioning as the only tool for connecting the meeting owl to net work, the app itself is fairly useless. There are three or four options you can manage inside the app, but what’s missing is the ability to run the meeting owl from a tablet. Now that USB-C is the standard there must be a quick way to build a remote camera functionality into any USB-C enabled tablet. The bandwidth is there, but the app isn’t.

As someone who uses this device in remote locations all over the world, the less I have to carry and the more free I am to move around and interact with my constituents during a presentation the better.

This is no longer a “ luxury product,” it is essential to community building and communications around the globe. If meeting owl wants to stay on top of this game, they need to improve the user experience along with their hardware.

The device itself works pretty well, but I have to repeat the registration process in the app quite a bit. This also requires reentering the wifi information repeatedly.