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title: "Starting a Device"
slug: "enable-the-device"
updated: 2024-11-20T17:50:20Z
published: 2024-11-20T17:50:20Z
canonical: "docs.ai-op.com/enable-the-device"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ai-op.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Starting a Device

Once you’ve created a device and made sure it’s on the same network as Koios, try to [test the device](/v1/docs/testing-a-device) to ensure connectivity. If the device is testing successfully, use the status bar or detail dropdown to pull up the [control popup](/v1/docs/control-popup) and enable the device. At this point, the device will attempt to connect inside of the Data Collector service, and if there is a failure, the device will continue to attempt to reconnect while giving you error messages to review on the device detail page.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/9fab5c8f-2756-48da-b963-232bd8533649/Images/Documentation/image(123).png)

### What’s Next?

Seeing the success message in the status banner? Awesome! Now it’s time to start adding tags. We will review how to do that in the next section.