Evo Quick Start Guide
How to Join the One of the primary challenges to cross-company engineering collaboration in the global renewable energy industry is lack of “face time.” Engineers want to be able to see, hear, and interact with their peers in real time–and that is why we are introducing SunSpec Interactive.

What is SunSpec Interactive?

SunSpec Interactive is the SunSpec Alliance’s “channel” on the EVO Collaboration Network. EVO is a revolutionary high-definition videoconferencing and collaboration solution, originally created for the global energy research community, and is provided through SunSpec’s partnership with the California Institute of Technology (CalTech).

Upcoming Broadcast

Wednesday September 22 at 10 AM PDT: SunSpec Plug Fest Test Lab Wrap Up Session. Live from the campus of CalTech in Pasadena, CA. Meet and interact–in full motion video–with the software engineers making SunSpec standards a reality. Leading providers of inverters, meters, combiners, environmental systems, industrial computing and networking solutions will be presenting their plans to demonstrate plug-and-play interoperability at Solar Power International 2010.

Join SunSpec Interactive Now

Joining SunSpec Interactive is easy to do and absolutely free to SunSpec members and friends. To join this online community, please go to http://evo.caltech.edu and get an account on the EVO network. Launch the EVO client, then search for and join the “SunSpec” community (case sensitive). If you need additional help, please download and read the SunSpec Interactive primer and check out the EVO corporate web site at http://www.evogh.com/.

Join

QUICK START

MINIMAL REQUIREMENTS

a COMPUTER (Windows, Mac or Linux)

JAVA installed (from Oracle/SUN MicroSystems http://java.com)
INTERNET connection (DSL is a minimum)

for more information please look at our requirements page.

Look for your invitation

Click the meeting link

Type in your login info

Go to the meeting room

Note that this is a moderated meeting

AUTHENTICATE YOURSELF

Type the EVO web address in your web browser
Click on the “START” button. Wait for the Koala program to start and detect your setup. You may be asked you to trust certificate.
Log In with the login and password that you have received (if you do not have a login, please register).

MEETING ROOM

1. At this step you are connected. You have in front of you, in the middle of the Koala window, the list of ongoing meetings. There’s always a “Testing Room” at least.

2. To join a meeting, click on the bar that contains the meeting title.

3. Once you are in the meeting, a second window shows up. It is the video application (called ViEVO) in which we see all videos from the remote participants. You can transmit your video from ViEVO (if you have a video camera). Note that with Windows a requester may ask you to block or unblock the application. Please make sure that you always allow the application or else EVO would not work.

4. To send your video (if you have a video camera) click on the button in the Koala window.

5. To talk, the controls are in the Koala window. In Koala, the microphone is muted by default. To open your microphone click on that will become in the following area:

6. You will see the connected participants and you can Chat with them:

The Chat: At the bottom of the Koala window there is an empty field (at left of the smiley) in which you can type your text and push the ENTER or RETURN key to send your text to the meeting.

At the center area of the Koala window is the list of the remote participants. A click on a participant shows a menu that provides special features to interact with the selected participant.

TEST YOUR SETTINGS

1. Star the loopback: Check the quality of the audio and video that you can send from your microphone and your webcam via a click on the menu item from the “Help & Test” menu. For more information look at Loopback documentation.

2. If you have problem with the audio: Adjust the audio mixer of your operating system. You can also select the input and output audio devices in the “Audio” tab of the “AV Controls” window. Click on of the DashBoard to open this window.