Device Manager

Note

The Device Manager is only available in PsychoPy 2025.2.3 and later.

PsychoPy^® includes a Device Manager to help you set up and manage your hardware devices, such as monitors, keyboards, mice, and other input/output devices.

To open the Device Manager, click on the Device Manager icon in the PsychoPy toolbar. From here you can select “add device” to add a new device or select an existing device to edit its settings. Give the device a name and select OK.

To use a specific device in a component you can select the “Device” tab. For example, to present a sound through a specific speaker, configure a speaker in device manager, then in the sound component > Device select the name of the speaker that you configured.

Fig. 1 Screenshot of the device manager window showing a list of configured devices (left) and how to use a configured device in a component (right).

Devices you might configure include:

• Microphones

• Speakers

• Sound sensors (for validating auditory timing)

• Light sensors (including a light sensor emulator for emulating a photodiode, for validating visual timing)

• Cameras

• Button boxes

• Serial devices

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