Devices

In the Devices panel you can create, setup, rename and delete devices.

The Devices panel in Kinetic Designer.

Icon	Action
	Add a new device
	Delete one ore more selected device(s)
	Enable/disable a device

You can quickly rename any device by double clicking on it’s name in the list.

When clicking on the button, a pop-up window will appear to choose the device to add. Devices are sorted by category.

You can create multiple units of one device type by specifying the Amount field in this window with the number of copies of the selected device that you wish to create.

When adding more than one device at a time, you can also fill the Start IP field to automatically increment the IP addresses of all the devices that will be created.

The pop-up window to add a device.

*Note : Devices must be connected to your Kinetic Designer workstation, not to your V-Nodes.

Editor

Select a device in the Devices panel to access its properties in the Editor panel.
Every device can be enabled or disabled here and the Run at startup property can be toggled to automatically enable the device when Kinetic Designer and the show is launched.
Most devices require an IP address or similar property to be set to function correctly.
For some devices (for example Video Projectors), you can access an embedded device controller in the Editor panel.

The Editor window for a Barco VP device with embedded controller.

Drag & Drop

Devices can be drag & dropped in the following places:

• Task panel, as the subtask of a task (it’s possible to drag&drop several devices at once)
• Task panel, as a trigger to a task
• Timeline panel, in a command layer
• Digimap panel, as a trigger to a digimap
• Graph Editor panel, in a Compute graph
• UI Designer panel, in a user panel
  

Setting up multiple devices at once in a subtask with a drag & drop.

*Note : Not all devices have actions in each of these panels.
Check the individual manual pages of each device for more information.

*Note : By default, all devices can be enabled/disabled (and display this status) via a UI designed panel.

Timecode linking

Some devices can be assigned to control the timecode of a timeline.
These are regrouped in the Timecode category of the Add device window.

To control the timecode of a timeline, drag & drop the device in the timecode field of the timeline like this:

Linking a timeline's timecode to a device.

*Note : It is also possible to drag & drop the Midi device (MTC incoming timecode).