How the sleep trainer clock works on a tablet

Bedtime, every night

1. At bedtime the pal settles and six stars glow. They go out one by one while your child falls asleep.
2. When the sun comes up, the pal shows it is OK to get up. You choose the times in the schedule in Parent mode, for bedtime and for naps. Bedtimes and wake-ups are set for each day of the week, so a Friday and Saturday weekend can have its own times.
3. With Plus, a present appears. Inside is a toy for your child’s shelf, then balloons to pop. You can turn the surprise, the balloons and its sounds on or off at any time. Toys on the shelf stay there, even if Plus ends.

The same stars and sunrise run every nap, so it is a nap clock in the day. With Plus, bedtime can begin with a routine: you choose the steps, the pal does each one with your child, then a lullaby plays as the screen dims. See the bedtime routine app.

The schedule is stored as clock times in your home time zone. When the tablet is somewhere with a different time zone, Parent mode asks whether to keep home times or use the new time zone from the next sleep. Nothing changes unless you choose, and there is nothing to reprogramme by the bed. Snoozaroo makes no claim about jet lag or about how your child will sleep; it keeps the signal they know the same wherever they are.

Setting up a bedroom screen

Open Snoozaroo on the bedroom tablet and choose to set it up as a Pal Screen. It shows a code. In Parent mode, open Devices and add a screen by scanning that code. The camera is used only to scan the code. If you only have one tablet, you can use that device as the Pal Screen instead.

Your family has one six-digit grown-up PIN. Every Pal Screen in your family accepts it, and each screen checks it on the screen itself, even offline, so it works on a plane or in a hotel without Wi-Fi. To reach the grown-up controls on a screen, hold the padlock and enter the PIN.

From your phone

From Parent mode you can send an action to a screen, such as starting an activity or a wake. It applies only while Snoozaroo is open on that screen, the screen is awake and the tablet is online. If the app is closed, the screen is locked or the tablet is offline, the action waits until it expires and Parent mode tells you it did not apply. This is how phones and tablets work, not a fault. On Android, screen pinning keeps Snoozaroo open, and you can exit it.

Sounds

You can choose a sound for each sleep, such as noise, nature or a lullaby, and when it stops. A wake sound is short. Snoozaroo starts quiet and never plays above a volume cap that you can lower. It never changes the tablet’s own volume, so set that low and keep the tablet across the room. Snoozaroo does not make any claim about safe listening levels.

Keeping the tablet quiet

Notifications and calls from other apps can wake a child, so set the bedroom tablet to be quiet while Snoozaroo is open. On Android, Snoozaroo asks once for Do Not Disturb access, then turns its own quiet mode on for each sleep and off at wake. Its sleep sounds keep playing. Clock alarms set on the tablet still ring. Snoozaroo does its best here, and cannot promise that no other app will ever make a sound.