Test on your own Jibo

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Try your work on a Jibo you own before you share it, and get back to the way he looked before at any time.

Who this is for: theme and skill authors who own a compatible Jibo linked to their account.

Before you test

Check your project on your computer first. The local check needs no robot and no account, and it writes nothing:

node tools/theme-kit/cli.mjs check copper

Then confirm what your Jibo supports. A compatible Jibo advertises the theme runtime and the theme API your pack uses. A software version number alone does not prove support.

Software and API versions

Themes: try it from the Skill Store

Themes reach your Jibo through the Skill Store. There is no direct copy to the robot and nothing to sign on your computer.

1. Submit a version from the publisher dashboard. An operator reviews those exact bytes before they are signed and published.
2. After publication, choose List publicly. A theme appears in the Skill Store, for you as for every owner, once it is listed publicly, so finish the local check and the checklist below first.
3. Install it on your own Jibo from its Skill Store page, after reading the appearance consent. Installing does not apply it.
4. Choose it for that Jibo in Settings → Themes on Jibo, or under Installed → Appearance in the Skill Store. Jibo shows a short trial with Keep and Undo.
5. Check every menu, long labels and both layouts. Use the full theme testing checklist.

Waiting in the console is not a result. Wait until Jibo reports Applied, Reverted to Default, Failed or Conflict.

Get back to Default

Default theme is built into Jibo. It needs no download and works offline. Choose it in Settings → Themes whenever something is hard to read. Removing an active theme also returns that Jibo to Default.

Skills: local test builds

Native skills install on your own Jibo as local test builds, with your physical approval on his screen. The skill guide and its starters open with the Jibo software release that supports local test builds. Until then, a native skill cannot be installed for testing, and the theme upload form does not accept skill bundles.

Software and API versions

When something goes wrong

Keep the exact version, the error code and the step that failed. Then open a support ticket. Never share tokens, keys, account details or personal images.