Initial Setup

The very first time you open the Play Attention software, you will be taken to this initial set up screen:

The License key should have been provided to you by us.  Please key it in when you see this screen and hit <Activate>.  You will then be taken to this screen:

Choose whichever language you prefer and click <Done>.

Next, you are asked to provide information to setup your Primary Account. The Name and Email fields are required. All other fields are optional.

Fill in the fields with the appropriate information and then press <Done>. Play Attention will attempt to send the Primary Account an email. If the email is sent successfully then you are sent to the System Settings screen.

The System Settings screen looks like this:

As you can see, you have the ability to change the language on this screen, and/or change the Administrator information you entered earlier.

You may have also noticed the option Click to show Help Text again in the top right:

Various fields have little help bubbles that pop up over them the first time you run through the program.  These bubbles tell you what each field is for.  If you would like see the bubble again, simply click the orange “i” in the circle.

We also have a secondary email field:

This is used if the manager of your Play Attention program is someone other than the main Play Attention offices.  This is usually only applicable to resellers.

Assuming that you already plugged your USB Bluetooth Adapter into your computer before beginning the installation process, the next step is to locate it and thus connect the Play Attention hardware to your computer.

At this time it would be good to assemble the Play Attention equipment.  Again, assuming the USB Bluetooth Fireplug is already plugged into your computer, there are three additional steps:

• Insert batteries into the interface box. These should be brand new high end name brand batteries.

• Insert the interface box into the armband sleeve.

• Plug the little blue cord from the armband sleeve into the interface box.
  
  

Note: if the interface box automatically turned on when you put the batteries in, (you’ll see a red/orange light on the front if this happened), go ahead and turn the interface box off by holding the red button down until the red/orange light disappears.

You can now put the armband on you or another person.  Even though it is called an “armband”, it doesn’t necessarily have to be on your literal arm.  With this technology, the entire body is the medium through which the brainwave signals are picked up.  Thus, it could be your arm, your leg, your forearm—it doesn’t matter where it attaches, as long as it is comfortable, and all three sensors are in good contact with bare skin.

Once you are wearing the equipment, turn the interface box on by hitting the red button on the front.  The light will initially flash green, then it will go solid red/orange.  That red/orange color means “Standby”. Later on, when you are actually playing a game, it will start flickering green, which means that information is being exchanged between your interface box and the computer.

Once the interface box is turned on, hit the <Set up BodyWave armband> button.

You will see your device detected like so:

Click "Save Device".

Be sure to hit the Save button in the bottom right before moving on.

The Play Attention system has a variety of features that allow each person to customize their training experience.  However, many of these customizations are not used by everyone.  As such, this manual will go through a linear progression of the basic, most used, and primary features initially, and then at the end there will be multiple appendices that will describe all of the other features.

Given that you just installed, you are currently logged in under the System Administrator username and password, which is wise to make note of:

Username: system
Password: admin

(All lowercase letters)

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