Custom Menus

Custom menus are simplified, purpose-built control panels. Instead of exposing the full system, you present end users with just the controls they need - buttons for specific scenes, a volume slider, a source picker. Menus appear on the touchscreen, in the Web UI (under Operation > Custom Menu), and - when enabled - to guests in the browser without logging in.

You can create multiple menus, each with its own items, look, and audience. They are especially useful in lock-down mode, where a custom menu is the only interface available on the device.

Managing Menus

Menus are designed under Control & Integrations > Custom Menus in the Web UI. Each menu has:

• Code - a short unique code (auto-generated, e.g. MENU1, but freely changeable) used for direct links
• Enabled - turn the whole menu on or off
• Only Admin - restrict the menu to admin users
• Available to Guests - expose the menu in the Web UI without login, so anyone on the network (or a wall tablet) can use it
• Type - Items (buttons, the default), Items (small view) for compact lists, or Wall panel (the fixed fader-and-buttons layout for wall controllers, see Wall Panel Menus). For a page of faders, use Items and add a Faders page item
• Look - icon, header logo with height, and background

Menus can be exported and imported as JSON - see the custom menu samples on GitHub for ready-made layouts.

On the touchscreen, open a menu from Main Menu > Utilities > Custom Menu. If Only show custom menu is on (Device > System), non-admin users start on the custom menu; admins are exempt.

Menu Items

Click Add item in the editor. Each item has a name, optional subtitle/description, icon, background color, and one of these types:

Type	Description
Action	A button that triggers an action (see below)
SubMenu	Opens a nested menu level
Slider	A fader. The Slider target panel sets the target: a fixture’s brightness, a zone dimmer, the master dimmer, the audio volume, a DSP level (Control Value (Level) and the Control Value from the dropdown), or a preset, cue or sound as a playback fader (see Preset, Cue and Sound Faders). The code field suggests your fixtures, zones, presets, cues and sounds. On the touchscreen the item shows its level, and a tap opens a large fader (Enter value switches to a keypad for an exact number)
Faders page	Opens a page of faders, one per entry, for a set of lights and levels you pick (see Faders Page)
Segmented selector	A source/input picker bound to a Selector Control Value
Value display	A read-only live readout of a Control Value of any kind (see below)
Presets / Cues list	A browsable list of presets or cues (touchscreen only)
Scene Panel	Opens the Scenes page: scene tiles with a color wheel and dimmer (Web UI only; the touchscreen leaves this item out)
OSC direct message	Send a raw OSC message when tapped

Value Display

A Value display item shows a Control Value without offering to change it: a scoreboard’s HOME 14 / AWAY 7 next to the keys that step the scores, or the bar volume beside an Up/Down pair. Pick the Control Value; the item prints a Level as a percent, a Counter as its number, a Selector as its choice and a Toggle as On/Off, and follows the value live wherever it is changed from. On the web the value sits big under the item’s name; on the touchscreen the value is the card title with the name beneath it. The optional Format uses the same syntax as a Stream Deck key’s value format: {0} is the value, {1} the default text, so {0} pts reads “14 pts” and Vol {0:P0} reads “Vol 63%”; for a Toggle, Yes|No names the two states.

Faders Page

A Faders page item gives end users a mixing-desk page for exactly the lights and levels you choose: the bar lights, the patio and the music volume, without the rest of the system. Add the item, click Open, and add one entry per fader. Each entry is a fader target, the same as a Slider item:

• Fixture Intensity (the default) - the fixture’s brightness. The strip shows the fixture’s live color as a chip; tapping the chip opens a color picker, and tapping the name opens the fixture’s full controls
• Control Value (Level) - a DSP or internal level such as a music volume, with MUTED shown while it is muted
• Master Dimmer, Zone Intensity or Audio Volume
• Preset, Cue or Sound (playback fader) - pushing the fader up from 0 starts it, the fader sets its level, and 0 stops it (see Preset, Cue and Sound Faders)

Each entry can have a Name (left blank, the target’s own name is used) and a Color for its strip. The faders appear in the order of the list.

On the touchscreen the page shows as many faders as fit, with arrow buttons for the rest. Drag a fader by its cap; tapping the track does nothing, so a brushed screen cannot jump a light to full. The rotary knob moves the selected fader (tap a fader to select it, press the knob for the next one, hold it to open the fixture’s controls). Release hands the page’s lights back to whatever presets and cues are doing; it only affects the fixtures on this page.

In the Web UI and for guests, the item opens the same faders in the browser, with the fixture’s color and controls in a pop-up.

Raising the brightness of a color fixture that has no color set (for example after a release) starts it from white, on this page and everywhere else a brightness fader or knob is used, so the light does not stay dark.

Preset, Cue and Sound Faders

A fader can also play a preset, a cue or a sound, the way a playback fader works on a lighting desk. Pick Preset, Cue or Sound (playback fader) as the target of a Slider item or a Faders page entry, and the item’s code. Only the presets, cues and sounds you put on the menu can be reached from it.

• Pushing the fader up from 0 starts the item at the fader’s level, with no fade: the fader is the fade.
• While it runs, the fader sets its level. For a preset, that is the brightness of the lights it sets, on top of the preset’s own dimmer, so 100% is the preset as saved. For a cue, it is the cue’s brightness and the volume of its sound together. For a sound, it is the volume, where 100% is the volume set on the sound.
• Taking the fader to 0 stops it, and whatever was underneath (an ambient preset, another cue) shows again.
• A cue or sound fader has its own Loop: how many times the fader plays the item, where 0 plays it until the fader goes back to 0 (default 1). The unit’s default loop count and fade times are for starting items from the cue and sound lists; they never change what a fader does.

The strip shows On while a preset is applied and Playing while a cue or sound plays, wherever it was started from. A sound, and a cue with a sound, shows a speaker mark, and a preset with a scene color shows it as the strip’s chip, bright while it is on.

Started somewhere else, by a button or a schedule, the item shows at 100% and the fader takes over its level from there. When an item stops while its fader is up - a cue or sound reaches its end, a stop comes from somewhere else, or another cue replaces it on the same playback layer - the fader stays where it is and the On or Playing mark goes off. Moving the fader then does not start it again: take the fader down to 0 first, then up.

Good to know:

• A cue’s fader dims every channel of a universe that has no Cue Fade Mask, pan, tilt and color too. The editor lists those universes; add a fade mask to keep such channels steady.
• A preset that sets no brightness (color only, or only an effect) is just started and stopped by its fader; the fader does not dim an effect.
• A sound fader drives the sound played on its own. The same sound playing as a cue’s audio follows that cue’s fader instead.
• Keep the target’s Min value at 0: with a minimum above 0 the fader never reaches 0, so it can never stop the item.
• Release on a Faders page hands back fixtures only; it does not stop presets, cues or sounds.
• A menu that uses these targets does not load on a unit with older software, so update every unit first.

The same targets are available to knobs and faders on control surfaces, input triggers and Control Value drives, so a MIDI fader can be a cue’s playback fader too.

Actions

An Action item can: Apply Ambient Preset, Apply Preset, set/step a Control Value, Fade Out, Fire Output Event, Play Cue, Play Sound, Play Timeline, Run Script, Step Effect, Stop or Blackout, Tap Tempo, Audio Mute, DMX Output, or Toggle Schedule.

Per-item options:

• Press mode - Normal, Toggle on/off, or Flash (hold) - active only while the button is held
• Fade-in / fade-out time and loop count - override the item’s playback settings
• Dimmer - playback brightness for this button
• Require confirmation - ask before executing. Control surface buttons use Hold to confirm instead of a dialog (the Surface Operator still asks Yes/No)
• Live state - highlight the item while a Control Value equals a given value (e.g. light up “Input B” while that source is selected), or automatically while its own action is active

Menu Structure

Menus support multiple levels via SubMenu items - a top-level menu with a button per room, each opening that room’s scene options. A glow state indicator shows items whose target is currently active.

Wall Panel Menus

A menu of type Wall panel (called Faders before v2026.1026) is the wall-controller layout for a DSP such as Q-SYS or Symetrix: each SubMenu item is one column on the touchscreen. A column of Action items shows them as buttons, lit while their state is active. A column of Slider items shows one fader that all its sliders share: the button above the fader switches which one it drives, and a slider with a switch-back time returns the fader to it after that many seconds without a touch. The rotary knob drives the fader, and a knob press switches, or runs the menu’s knob action (such as a mute) when one is set. Drag the fader by its cap; tapping the track does nothing. A slider can drive any fader target, not only a DSP level.

Guest Access

A menu marked Available to Guests can be used from a browser without logging in - ideal for a lobby tablet or letting staff trigger scenes from their phones without handing out PINs. Guests see only guest-enabled menus; everything else still requires a login. A Faders page item on a guest menu gives guests full control of the fixtures on it - brightness, color and every function in a fixture’s controls - and lets them start and stop the presets, cues and sounds on it, and nothing else. A Scene Panel item on a guest menu opens the panel for guests only when Scene Panel available to guests is on in System settings (see Scenes).

Direct Links and QR Codes

Every menu has a code that opens it directly by URL - perfect for a QR code posted at the site, a wall-tablet home page, or a browser bookmark:

http://<device>/guest/custommenu?code=LOBBY
http://<device>/op/custommenu?code=LOBBY

The guest/ form works without login for menus marked Available to Guests; the op/ form is for logged-in users. Codes are matched case-insensitively and stay stable even as you rename or reorganize the menu, so printed QR codes keep working. The menu editor shows ready-made direct links next to the preview link once a code is set.

Favorites

Favorites are a Web UI list (Operation > Favorites). They are not shown on the touchscreen home screen.