FluentPet

The base took a little convincing to connect, I was able to connect one button and the other seven that I purchased are basically useless because they cannot be connected. It seems like the app is not catching the connection of the button despite the connection sound ringing. Super disappointed

If you follow the set up instructions that come with your base and buttons, it will take an unnecessary amount of time to actually load all the information in. My recommendation is to associate all of the buttons to the base station at the same time, then assign the words to each button without updating the base station until you are completed assignment. There is no ability to bulk assigned button presses to users so if you have more than one pet and a lot of activity, you’re going to completely skip the assign feature because it’s a waste of your time. There is no way to activate the connect base station from your phone app, which seems like a total mess to me. However, once you get past all of that, everything works reasonably well and is highly entertaining.

The set up took a bit of patience but the instructions were good enough to get through it. You have to charge the base and pair it to the app before you do anything else. Once you have that worked out, the rest is pretty easy. Being able to pause notifications is helpful during training sessions. I really like that it has battery indicators for the buttons and that you can edit the button names. I think this is going to be a lot of fun.

Getting texts from my pets has been a game changer. There were some glitches early on, but the customer service has been phenomenal is getting us up to date. I appreciate all of the new app updates as well - it just keeps getting better!

This product is expensive, especially the new connection buttons. We have spent a lot on both the old and new buttons. We really wanted this app to work so that when we are on a different floor, we can hear the dogs. However, this app has been malfunctioning from day one, and now we can’t even log into it. It keeps trying to sync with the website, but we get errors. It started by not loading and gradually led to not working at all. You need to look into this, please.

The app freezes every time I try to assign a button hit/sequence. I have to quit the app and reopen to assign every hit/sequence. It is arduous. Button connecting and setup is also slow. It took me 60+ minutes to connect 18 buttons. The app and hardware needs a lot of work.

App keeps locking up, I have to keep quitting the app and restart it. Looks like there was an update yesterday and now this keeps happening. Please fix this issue, I paid a substantial amount of money for this connect system.

I have a log in and password but it refuses to recognize it and keeps saying wrong password. I even changed it. I can’t even get started. I had feeling this was going to be sketchy app - spent $500 for nothing should’ve stuck w the oils school version

Connect can’t be used without this clumsy and restrictive app. It lags when recording sounds so I need 5 takes for the word to record clearly. It lags when typing. It’s not efficient to edit multiple activities… so deleting 30 events means about 90-120 screen taps. Most of this app is just hyperlinks to their website, which is not helpful, and the website doesn’t display great on mobile devices. There’s no way use a browser on a computer to check / edit any of your Connect data using mouse and keyboard, so Connect is thumbs-only only and drains my phone battery. Connect can’t be initially set up or used without this app. Connect can’t record sounds without this app. I hope Connect is in the early stages because this entire system, hardware and software, still needs a LOT of work. Thankfully mine barely got dirty.

So I have an unresponsive FluentPet base, a slow blinking blue light, it started because I had to do a factory reset because I got a new wifi device so I was re-pairing the buttons and then it just got stuck on the blue blinking light. I’ve tried doing a hard reset and that’s not even working. I asked for help 3x and they just keep sending me the same article about how to pair buttons. It’s frustrating for me and my dog whose voice that she’s come to rely on is gone. I should’ve just stuck with the old buttons.