# Waiting Room

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The Edge Devices Waiting room lists any Edge Devices that have connected using the pre-deploy script and are pending association with the Portainer instance. The list can be filtered by Edge Group, group, and tag.

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To associate a device with your Portainer instance, tick the box next to the device and click **Associate Device**.


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