Button
Ideal for direct actions. A button can react to a tap, long press, touch down, or touch up.
DeviceJockey Guide
Items
Items are the controls and displays you arrange on a panel to interact with devices and software.
Your building blocks
Turn a panel into your control surface.
Every button you press, value you adjust, and status you monitor is represented by an item. Combine different item types to build a panel that matches the controls required by your workflow.
Items can send commands through an interface and react to incoming events. Their appearance and behavior can be configured independently, so the same item type can serve many different purposes.
ControlTrigger actions with buttons, toggles, sliders, rotary controls, and radio buttons.
DisplayShow names, values, and status information with labels and monitors.
CustomizeAdjust an item’s appearance, commands, events, and available interactions.
Common controls
Choose the item that fits the action.
Slider & Rotary
Change a value within a range. Examples include volume, brightness, camera settings, or position.
Toggle
Switch between two states and show whether a function is currently on or off.
Radio Button
Select one option from a group, such as a source, operating mode, or panel destination.
Label
Display static or changing text and use light states to communicate additional status.
Monitor
Present a received value together with a label that identifies its source or meaning.
Specialized items
More than standard controls.
Send MIDI notes to a DAW with configurable keys, octave, starting note, and velocity.
Monitor commands, events, and system information while developing and troubleshooting a panel.
Use logging during development.
Monitoring interfaces requires additional resources. Select only the interfaces you currently need to inspect.
Display web content inside a panel and update or reload its URL through events.
Use logging during development.
Monitoring interfaces requires additional resources. Select only the interfaces you currently need to inspect.
Commands and events
Items communicate in both directions.
Commands describe what an item sends when you interact with it. Events describe how the item reacts when a device, application, or DeviceJockey itself sends information back.
Example: an OBS scene button
A tap command changes the scene in OBS. An event from OBS lights the button when that scene is active.
Getting started
Add and configure an item.
1
Open a panel
Go to the panel on which you want to place the new control.
2
Add an item
Touch and hold an empty position, then choose “New” and an item type.
3
Design it
Set its title, colors, appearance, and item-specific properties.
4
Connect it
Add commands to send and events that update the item.
Across several panels
Choose where an item appears.
An item can remain on one panel or appear across a panel group or complete scene.