What is HoloLens Device Portal?

The Windows Device Portal for HoloLens lets you configure and manage your device remotely over Wi-Fi or USB. The Device Portal is a web server on your HoloLens that you can connect to from a web browser on your PC. The Device Portal includes many tools that will help you manage your HoloLens and debug and optimize your apps.

How to setup device portal?

• Turn on your HoloLens device.

• Tab your wrist(HoloLens 2) or make a bloom gesture(HoloLens 1) to initiate Windows menu.

Windows menu.

• Open the Settings > Update & Security.

Update & Security Settings.

• Select For Developers tab on the right hand panel.

For Developers Settings.

• Enable "use developer features" by toggling on/off button.

• Scroll down at the For Developer settings to enable "Device Portal".

Device Portal Toggle.

• Go back to all settings page by clicking "Home" on the left hand panel and select "Network & Internet" settings.

Network and Internet Settings.

• Select "Wifi" tab on the left, if it is not already selected.

• Select the wifi you are connected to and click on "Advanced Options".

Wifi Advanced Options.

• Scroll down and write down the IPV4 address.

• You will type in this IP address to your browser to reach to your device portal.

• You might see a connection Alert as shown below:

Your connection is not private alert.

• Go ahead and click Advanced button and click Proceed to <your IP address>(unsafe).

• Congrats, you made it to your device portal.

Device Portal.

• Click Views on the right hand panel and select "Live Preview" to see the camera view of your HoloLens.

Live Preview on Windows Device Portal.

• You can turn off PV camera if you would like to share or record what you are seeing through your HoloLens but do not want to capture your environment.

• You can see the videos recorded or screenshots you snapped by asking Cortana here, on the Videos and Photos section, if you enabled voice commands.