Installation and first launch

Installation takes a few minutes and does not require administrator rights. Below is the whole path: from downloading the installer to the moment your phones appear in the window. Login errors are covered separately - that is where most newcomers stumble.

What you need before installing

• a Windows computer (64-bit build);
• an account at lusiesta.com with an active license: you sign in to the program with the same email and password as your account area;
• an internet connection - without a link to the server the program will not let you into the main window and will not receive the automation scenarios;
• free space in your user profile: the app installs into %LOCALAPPDATA%\\Lusiesta.

You do not need to install ADB, scrcpy or any extra utilities separately - the supporting components are already part of the installation. A manufacturer USB driver for Windows is sometimes still required, but that belongs to connecting the devices rather than to installing the program.

Step 1. Download the installer

1. Sign in to your account area at lusiesta.com.
2. Open the download page - in the account area this is the "Download build" button.
3. Save the LusiestaSetup.exe file.

Download it only from your account area. The installer is signed, and during an automatic update the app verifies the file's signature and checksum; a copy "from a forum" fails those checks and could be anything at all.

Step 2. Install the application

1. Run LusiestaSetup.exe. No administrator rights are needed: the installation goes into the current user's profile.
2. On the "Additional tasks" step, leave the "Create a desktop shortcut" checkbox ticked if you want one.
3. Wait for the files to finish copying.
4. On the last screen leave "Launch Lusiesta Studio" ticked, or start the program from the shortcut.

How to check that it installed correctly: a Lusiesta Studio entry appears in the Start menu (and on the desktop if you chose the shortcut), and the %LOCALAPPDATA%\\Lusiesta folder is not empty. That is also where the app writes its working data - the login session, tasks, settings and the proxy store.

If a previous version is already installed, simply run the new installer over it: it closes the running application and updates the files by itself. There is no need to uninstall the old version manually, and it is better not to - your settings would go with it.

Step 3. Sign in to your account

On the first launch the "Sign in" window opens, captioned "Enter the email and password for your Lusiesta account". Without a successful sign-in the main window is never created - this step cannot be skipped.

1. Enter your email in the field hinted with you@example.com.
2. Enter your password. The eye button on the right switches between "Show password" and "Hide password".
3. Click "Sign in". While the check runs, the label changes to "Signing in...".

If you have forgotten your password, the "Forgot password?" link in the same window leads to recovery. On later launches the email is filled in from the saved session, and the session itself is stored on disk in encrypted form and tied to your computer and Windows account: copied to someone else's PC, that file is useless.

If sign-in fails

The program shows the specific reason rather than a generic "error". What to do in each case:

• "Incorrect email or password." - check the keyboard layout and capitalization, and reset the password in your account area if needed.
• "This account has no active license." or "Your license has expired." - handled in the account area, see Plans and the device limit.
• "The device limit for this license has been reached." - the license is already taken by other computers; free up a slot or move to a bigger plan.
• "No connection to the server. Check your internet." - the internet, a VPN, an antivirus or a firewall blocking the app.
• "Too many attempts. Please wait a moment." - brute-force protection has kicked in, wait a couple of minutes and try again.
• "Your app version is out of date - update to continue." - download the current installer from your account area and install it over the old one.
• "Account blocked. Contact support." or "This device is blocked." - can only be resolved through support.

What happens right after you sign in

The window opens maximized to the full screen. In the background the ADB server starts and device discovery begins. Until the phones are found, Home shows the "Looking for ADB devices" state with a note that the first ADB start after a computer reboot can take a few seconds. If nothing turns up, the heading changes to "No ADB devices found" and a "How to connect a phone" button appears next to it.

Useful details about the first launch:

• the application runs as a single instance: clicking the shortcut again does not open a second window, it brings the existing one to the front;
• the device list refreshes by itself every few seconds - there is nothing to refresh manually;
• the license is re-checked in the background (roughly every 6 hours), so a plan renewal is picked up without reinstalling.

Connecting your first phone

The sequence in short: enable developer options on the phone (seven taps on the build number), turn on USB debugging, plug in the cable in file transfer mode and approve the access request from this computer on the phone's screen. Tick "Always allow", otherwise the prompt will pop up on every reconnect.

Detailed steps for different firmware are in Developer options and USB debugging and Connecting a phone over ADB. If the phone does not show up, go to Device does not connect or is not visible: it covers cables, ports and Xiaomi quirks.

Once the phone appears as a tile with a picture, the installation counts as finished. The next thing to do is install the Siesta input agent - some tasks will not start without it; the "Initialize agent" button is in the right-hand panel, and the details are in the article about the agent.

Updates and uninstalling

When a new version comes out, the program shows the "A new version is available" window titled "What's new in Lusiesta Studio?", with a list of changes and the "Update" and "Continue working" buttons. With "Update" the app downloads the installer itself, verifies the checksum and the signature, installs the update silently and restarts. If the update is mandatory, there will be no "Continue working" button: that happens when the old version stops working with the server.

The app is uninstalled like any other Windows program, through Apps & features. The folder with its working data is cleaned up along with it, so tasks, settings and saved proxies do not stay on disk. If you plan to reinstall and do not want to enter your proxies again, keep the list in a separate txt file - you can import it back on the Proxies page.

Once you are comfortable with the window, move on to the interface overview.