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
- Indicator Lights — what the connector lights mean when Easywire isn't driving them
- Magic Provisioning — provisioning a brand-new controller
- The wiring guide for your specific controller, linked from each controller's overview page