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Easywire™

Easywire™ is the guided wiring system on every IgorBox controller. There's an LED next to every WAGO® connector, and Studio uses those LEDs to walk you through wiring a new prop, sensor, light, or motor — one wire at a time.

It's the difference between staring at a wiring diagram with a multimeter in one hand and a flashlight in the other, and just plugging the wire into the connector that's blinking.

How it works​

In Studio, on the controller's Configuration tab, click Connection Helper next to the channel you're wiring. A friendly little robot named CarlBot walks you through three steps.

1. Pick what you're connecting​

Choose your peripheral from the list — DC solenoid, LED panel, wiper motor, button, reed switch, and so on. Studio shows you a picture of the device and the list of wires you'll be working with (and any jumper wires you'll need).

2. Install the wires​

CarlBot tells you which wire to grab and the corresponding LED on the controller starts blinking. Plug that wire into the blinking connector, hit Done — next wire, and CarlBot moves you to the next one.

If a step has a safety warning (high inrush, polarity, hot side first), it shows up in red before the wiring instruction. Read it.

For multistate channels (the ones that can be either a relay or a solid-state output), CarlBot will ask you to pick the mode that matches your peripheral before the wiring starts.

3. Test it​

Once everything's wired, Studio drops you into a test mode for that channel:

  • Outputs (lights, solenoids, motors) — Use the on-screen control to drive the channel and confirm the peripheral does what it should.
  • Inputs (buttons, sensors) — Trigger the input physically (press the button, trip the sensor); the on-screen indicator lights up so you can confirm it's wired right.

While you're here, you can also give the channel a friendly name ("Front Door Hit", "Coffin Lid", "Strobe") and pick a channel color so you can spot it later in the timeline editor.

When everything works, click Done. That's it.

What it covers​

The Easywire library covers the peripherals we ship plus the most common haunt and escape-room hardware:

  • DC pneumatic solenoids
  • LED panels and pinspots
  • Wiper motors and other DC motors
  • Buttons, footswitches, reed sensors, and other inputs
  • The RGBW-PWR breakout for the LED Controller (with its own dedicated install wizard)

We add to the library regularly. If we don't have a recipe for the thing you're wiring, you can still wire it manually using the wiring guide for your controller — and please tell us about it so we can add it.

Why we built it​

Wiring is where most show-control installs go wrong. A miswired solenoid will burn out a relay; a sensor wired backwards won't trigger; a motor on the wrong channel will trip on inrush.

Easywire turns wiring from "read the manual carefully" into "follow the lights." Less stress, fewer dead components, faster install.

See also​

  • Status LED — the front-panel status LED uses similar color signals
  • Magic Provision — provisioning a brand-new controller
  • The wiring guide for your specific controller, linked from each controller's overview page