Devices

The Devices menu is where you connect and manage the extra hardware that works with the booth. Devices connect mostly over Bluetooth or USB and are used during a session.

What counts as a device

Lighting devices.
A spinner — the platform that rotates the camera around the guest.
GlamBot — DzenTech’s robotic camera arm. It has its own detailed section: GlamBot.
Other add-on hardware.

Enable, not Connect

For every device there’s an Enable toggle rather than a one-off Connect button. When a device is Enabled, the app keeps trying to find it and remembers that state. So after a restart — say you had to reboot the laptop mid-event — you don’t have to go back into Devices and reconnect each one: enabled devices reconnect on their own, as long as the connection is otherwise fine.

Devices run on scenes

Every device works through scenes. A device has:

an active scene — what it does during a capture, and
an idle (waiting) scene — what it does while the booth waits between sessions.

Recommended: run devices in remote-control mode

For a Spinner or GlamBot, we recommend not using the standard Photobooth or Mirror mode, but the dedicated remote-control mode.

When you press Start Event, you get a choice of three modes — one is Spinner / Robo-arm (shown with a remote-control icon). This mode turns your device into a control panel: you can quickly switch between projects and templates, and drive everything with a presenter remote connected to your device, using its Page Up / Page Down buttons — rotation start/stop and capture start.

A typical flow:

Put the guest on the platform and press a button to start the rotation.
When they’re ready, press another button to start recording — a 3-2-1 countdown runs, then recording begins.
Or use a single button: it starts the countdown, the arm spins up during it, and capture begins.

We recommend this mode for both the Spinner and GlamBot.