Pukuku
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Getting started

You need an Android phone with Android 9 or newer and Google Play services, and the Google account whose email you gave us.

Install

  1. Open the invitation from Firebase App Distribution (noreply@firebase.google.com) and accept it with your Google account.
  2. Download Pukuku. Android asks once whether to allow installs from that source: allow it.

Set up, in five screens

  1. What Pukuku reads and what it never reads.
  2. Your places. Add Home and Work, and choose the role for each. Drag the map until the cross sits on the building: indoors, the map can start a hundred metres off.
  3. Permissions. For location, choose Allow all the time on the page Android opens, or arrivals are only noticed while the app is open.
  4. Working pattern. Your hours a week and working days. They set the "leave at" time; they are not a schedule.
  5. Help improve Pukuku. Optional and off by default. Preview shows exactly what would be sent.
Without a Home place, Pukuku can't draw a day at home at all. And a home saved as Work makes every day there look like an office day.

After setup

  1. Standing at each place, open Settings › Diagnostics › Where am I? and tap Check now. It should say you're inside.
  2. Sign in for updates once: Settings › Updates › Sign in, with the same Google account.
  3. Leave battery optimisation on. Diagnostics shows "Not exempt" in red, and that's fine.

Every day

Use your phone as usual. Answer a question when one comes, and confirm or fix the summary of your day in the evening. At home without a desk beacon, tap Start work when you begin and Done when you stop; Work again picks the day back up.

When a new version is ready, Today shows it with Install. Tap it, then stay on Android's update dialog until it says the app was installed. Your data is kept.

Fixing a day

Tap any stretch on Today to see why Pukuku drew it. From there you can turn it into work or a break, or use Adjust start and Adjust end. Edit day sets the start, the end and a missed break in one go.

Every change is one step with one Undo, and what you set always wins over what Pukuku worked out. If a day is wrong in a way you can't fix, tap Report this on the stretch.

Desk beacon

A small Bluetooth beacon on your desk lets Pukuku draw the start, the breaks and the end of a day at that desk without a tap. It's optional. The reference beacon is the MOKO H2; any iBeacon with a fixed address works the same way.

  1. Save the place first, then open Places › your place › Desk beacon and tap Start.
  2. Hold the new beacon against the back of your phone until it says Hello, new beacon, then tap Set it up.
  3. Keep it there through Setting up. When it says That's your desk, tap Done, then Save.
Pukuku gives the beacon its own password, kept on your phone, so nobody nearby can change it. If it says the beacon already has a password, reset it in the vendor's app first.

Dashboard

Open the dashboard in Chrome or Edge on a computer with a webcam, start the camera, and tap Show on PC on your phone. Hold the screen 20 to 40 cm from the camera with the brightness up, and tilt it a little if the light reflects.

Camera access is blockedAllow the camera for the page with the camera icon in the address bar, then try again.
No camera foundConnect one, then try again.
The camera is in useClose it in the other app, then try again.

More about the dashboard

Something isn't right

No invitation emailLook in spam for noreply@firebase.google.com. If it's not there, tell us: the invitation comes with the next version.
No update ever showsSign in once under Settings › Updates.
"Installation failed" after InstallTap Install again and stay on Android's dialog until it says installed.
The download finishes, nothing installsAllow "Install unknown apps" for Pukuku in Android's settings.
My day is emptyA permission is missing, usually location all the time. Settings › Permissions shows what's granted; grant the rest, then Settings › Diagnostics › Restart sensors.
It says I'm outside while I'm at homeThe pin is off. Check with “Where am I?”, move the pin, then restart sensors.
Home days never show upCheck under Settings › Places that a Home place exists and has the Home role.

Leaving the pilot

Open Settings › Help improve Pukuku › Delete my uploaded data. Collection switches off, and the days you uploaded are deleted within a few days. We confirm in the pilot chat when it's done.

Still stuck? Send feedback from the app, ask in the pilot chat, or write to [CONTACT EMAIL]