Showduino User Manual
The complete guide to the current Showduino platform, including system architecture, hardware roles, operation, emergency behaviour and specialist nodes.
Run it.
Understand it.
Official operating and setup documentation for the current Showduino system.
Quick Start Guide
A shorter setup and commissioning guide for getting a Showduino system powered, connected and ready to operate.
Director Operator Guide
Day-to-day operating guidance for the touchscreen Director and the controls an attraction operator actually needs.
RELEASE CANDIDATE ยท REVIEWED 20 OCTOBER 2026
Use the guide for your installed build.
Record P4, Communications, Director and Node versions. Source implementation and browser preview do not establish physical acceptance. Export from Website Studio, persist through the S3 local console, then load and start separately.
Showduino ID and community access are free. Optional Starter / Pro / Studio memberships are proposed; pricing, features and hardware-owner entitlements await confirmed terms. Paid activation is not available.
BUILDERS AND MAKERS
Document every board, wire and library.
Want to maintain your own Showduino or replace a module later? Start with a real parts register and a repeatable test record, rather than relying on a generic kit list.
Hardware, Software & Parts Register
Installed board families, active node roles, source-backed pinouts, firmware folders, programming libraries, repair checklist and photographs to collect. Marks unverified details clearly.
First Show & Documentation Weekend
A practical step-by-step guide for inventory photographs, capturing build environment versions, assembling the first simple SHDO v2 production and recording hardware test evidence.
TECHNICAL REFERENCES
Guides for each part of the system.
Wiring and pinouts
The current P4, S3 and node connections, plus reserved GPIO and powering notes.
Read the wiring guideSHDO v2 format
How projects, scenes, tracks, cues, devices and emergency policy are represented in the show file.
Read the formatCommissioning and open gaps
Which source features have been documented and which still need physical acceptance.
Review gaps
REPOSITORY
Technical source
Showduino's current firmware, protocol documentation and hardware implementation live in the main Showduino repository.
new_showduino on GitHub
The manuals above are maintained with the codebase so the website does not keep a second, drifting copy.
HAUNTSYNC COMMUNITY
Creator accounts and first steps
Join the creator community with a free Showduino ID. Read the community rules and the privacy notice before you post or share a production.
Documentation records its reviewed firmware baseline. Compare it with your installed build and consult the open gaps before operation. The historical downloadable Word manual is not the current manual; use the maintained guides linked above.