The tablet

The scene desk and the Control booth also open on a tablet or a phone on the theatre network. This way you can focus the lights from the stage, or follow the performance from the house. Nothing is installed on the tablet: you open the browser, and the show computer serves the pages. The fixtures, sounds and videos stay connected to the computer.

Turning tablets on

On the computer open Configuration → Tablets and turn on Tablets on the network. A QR code, the computer's address and a six-digit code appear. The code is valid for five minutes and can be used only once; New code makes another one straight away.

While Tablets on the network is off, nobody on the network sees the program. It stays on the next time you open the app, until you turn it off.

Traffic between tablet and computer is not encrypted. Use a theatre network protected by a password, not a network open to the public.

Pairing a tablet

Scan the QR code with the tablet's camera: the pairing page opens with the code already filled in. Otherwise open the address in the browser and type the code by hand. In Tablet name write what you will call it, for example "Stage" or "House", then tap Pair.

The tablet stays paired on the following days too. In Configuration → Tablets you see the list of tablets and when each one last connected. Remove disconnects a tablet: on its next request it goes back to the pairing page.

What opens on the tablet

The tablet shows the scripts on the computer, and for each one Control booth and Scene desk. Script, setups, patch and configuration are prepared on the computer.

From the Control booth the tablet can do everything the computer does: start and stop the show, press GO, jump to a point, retouch the lights, press Panic. If two people press at the same time, the first command to arrive wins.

The desk on several devices

The computer and the tablets can work together on the scene desk of the same setup. What one adjusts appears on the others within a second, and the stage always shows the last move. Above the stage you read who else is working on the same scene; in the list of scenes you see their name next to the scene they have open.

The changes stay pending for everybody until someone taps Update, which saves them in the scene, or Cancel, which puts it back as it was. The stage goes back to how it was only when the last device leaves the desk.