# Getting around your Peko Pal

Your Peko Pal has no screen — it talks instead. Every button press gets a
spoken response or a sound, so children learn their way around by ear. This
guide explains what each button does, and how to move between apps.

## The buttons at a glance

- **Power button** — a quick press leaves the current app and returns to the
  main menu. Two quick presses open your shortcut app (see below). Holding it
  for about two seconds turns the device off.
- **Direction pad up / down** — moves through a list one item at a time, and
  your Peko Pal says each one. Up goes to the previous item, down to the next.
- **Direction pad left / right** — in the main menu, switches between the
  sections. Inside an app, adjusts within whatever is currently playing or
  selected, where the app supports it.
- **Action button** (the big one) — opens what you chose, plays and pauses,
  talks, records.
- **Volume buttons** — louder and quieter, always, in every app.

## The main menu

Press the power button once and you are in the main menu. Your Peko Pal says
which **section** you are in — "Main menu: Apps" — and then waits.

There are up to three sections, and left/right moves between them in a loop:

- **Apps** — everything installed on the device.
- **Friends** — the people your child can send voice messages to or call.
- **Lessons** — the topics you have set up for them to learn.

A section only exists if there is something in it. A device with no friends set
up has no Friends section to land in, so the menu stays as simple as what the
device can actually do.

## Choosing something

1. **Press the power button once.** Whatever was playing stops, and your Peko
   Pal names the section — "Main menu: Apps".
2. **Press up or down** to hear what is in that section, one name at a time —
   "Stories… Podcasts… Radio…". Press left or right first if you want a
   different section.
3. **Press the action button** to open the one you want.

Two details that matter in daily use:

- **Arriving in the menu does not name an item, only the section.** The cursor
  is wherever it happened to be left, which is not a choice your child made — so
  the device does not read it out as though it were.
- **The action button only opens something after at least one up or down
  press.** Press it straight away and your Peko Pal prompts — "press up and
  down to choose an app" — instead of opening whatever the cursor was resting
  on. This exists so a child cannot launch something by accident on the way into
  the menu.

Nothing opens until the action button is pressed, so your child can listen
through the whole list as many times as they like.

## Inside an app

Once an app is open, the direction pad belongs to that app, and can no longer
switch to a different one:

- **Up / down** changes the item: the episode in Podcasts, the chapter in a
  story, the station in Radio, the friend on the walkie-talkie, the recording
  slot in the Recorder. Up is the previous one, down the next.
- **Left / right** adjusts within the current item where the app supports it —
  skipping back and forward inside a story, the glowlight's color mode, the
  night light's sound.
- **The action button** stays the "do it" button: play and pause, start and
  stop, talk.

Each app announces what it's doing as you go, so there's nothing to memorize —
press up or down and listen.

## The double-tap shortcut

Press the power button twice, quickly, and your Peko Pal jumps straight to one
app, wherever your child is: inside another app or in the main menu. It starts
as **Peko Bot**.

To choose a different app, or switch the shortcut off, open the Pal's settings
in the Peko Pal app and pick an app under **Shortcut**, **Double-Tap Power**. Pick
**Nothing** to switch it off.

## Turning it off and on

- **Off:** hold the power button for about two seconds, then let go.
- **On:** press and hold the power button briefly until the logo lights up.

When it turns back on, your Peko Pal reopens the app that was in use when it was
switched off, so a bedtime story is never more than a button press away. If your
child was only browsing the menu and never opened anything, it comes back to the
menu.

## Good to know

- A quick press of the power button never turns the device off — it only leaves
  the current app. Turning off always requires the two-second hold.
- Pressing the power button while already in the main menu does nothing. The
  device just waits for a pick.
- If the device is ever completely unresponsive, holding the power button for
  ten seconds forces it off. This is a hardware failsafe and always works.
- If the shortcut is set to **Nothing**, pressing the power button twice
  quickly does nothing.
- Some modes behave differently on purpose: Baby Smash gives every button a fun
  response (a quick power press still exits it), and during setup the exit press
  and the shortcut are disabled so pairing isn't interrupted.