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Getting started with formant
Overview
System requirements
Receiving the introductory email
Setting up your device
Create a device
Install the Formant agent via Docker (ROS 2)
Install the Formant agent via Docker (ROS1)
Install the Formant agent for Debian
Delete a device
Ingesting telemetry data
Add a ROS topic stream
Add a ROS localization stream
Add a ROS transform tree stream
Add a non-ROS data stream
Add a video stream
Add a file tail stream
Add a directory watch stream
Configure a stream
Configure stream ingestion rate
How telemetry streams work
Default streams
On-demand streams
Orientation and Altitude
Viewing data in Formant
The overview page
The device sidebar
The timeline
Views and modules
Create a view and add modules
Advanced modules
Events and notifications
Create an event and configure notifications
Create a custom event
Annotations and annotation templates
Multi-device observability
Formant Analytics
Commands
Create a command template
Issue a command
Schedule a command
Intervention requests
Teleoperation
Set up real-time connections
Build a teleoperation interface
Add a URDF file
Setting up your Formant organization
Configure access levels
Create and apply tags
Users, roles, and teams
Create a user
Create a custom role
Create a team
Create a service account
Protect your users' Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Fleet management
Create a device configuration template
Create a device group
Create a channel
The Formant Agent
The Formant agent
Advanced agent provisioning
Install the Formant agent via Apt
Re-provisioning an agent
Bulk provisioning
Automated provisioning
Video encoding with the Formant agent
Reduce bandwidth in constrained situations
Bypass Formant video encoder
Video no longer ingesting
Video performing poorly
Generate media encoder logs
Images black, glitchy, out of order when ingesting pre-encoded video
Environment variables for the agent
Terminal and port forwarding security
Set custom directories for agent data operations
Agent FAQ
Formant Analytics
Analytics overview
Create an Analytics view and add modules
Custom SQL queries in Formant Analytics
Query events in Analytics
Query datapoints in Analytics
Querying entities in Analytics
Task summaries
Create a task summary
FAQs & troubleshooting
Data not showing up in Formant Analytics
Embedded views
Embedded views
Embed a Formant view in an external site
Publish a module
Custom CSS variables
Generate an auth token for an embedded view
Teleoperate from an embedded view
Legacy experience
Overview
Create a view and add modules
The overview page
Teleoperation
Telemetry vs. realtime data streams
Add a teleoperation image stream
Add a real-time numeric stream
Add a mouse click stream
Add an audio stream
Configure joystick control
Joystick: Twist messages
Joystick: Joy messages
Add a joint states stream
Add a point cloud stream
Add a realtime odometry stream
Add buttons to your teleoperation interface
Configure localization for teleoperation
Add a relocalization stream
Localization and relocalization workflows
Create a teleoperation interface
Monitor network statistics during teleoperation
Advanced modules
Overview
3D scene module
Add and configure a 3D Scene module
Plan a mission
Marker arrays in the Scene module
Develop custom 3D Scene maps and layers
Command buttons module
Heatmap module
Realtime video module
ROS diagnostic message module
Stream last value table module
Terminal module
Add a custom module
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Single sign-on
Configure Google SSO
Configure OpenID Connect (OIDC) SSO
Audit changes to your Formant organization
Build a custom portal
Build a white-labeled robotics interface
Create a custom workflow email template
Applying Formant
Incident management
Fleet observability
Advanced Telemetry Guide
Data ingestion from a device
Data ingestion from anywhere
Ingest from the Cloud SDK
Ingest from Capture
Ingest from SMS
Ingest from fctl
Data visualization
Default visualization types
Custom views
Telemetry streams FAQ
Data export
How data export works
From the web application
Using the Cloud SDK
Export to Google Sheets
Export to AWS S3
Export to local machine
Data FAQ
Data share
Share with external users
Deep Linking - Share with Formant users
Adapters
Add an adapter
ROS 2 Adapter
ROS 2 Getting Started Guide
JSON decomposition adapter
ROS service adapter
ZeroMQ adapter
Advanced Teleoperation Guide
Introduction
Sending more than two images
Handle disconnections safely
Adding a custom view to the sidebar
Working with the Formant app
Upload files to Formant Cloud
Hot keys
Integrations
Overview
Send events to PagerDuty
Trigger webhooks from events
Send events to Slack
Integrate with Google Sheets
Event-triggered SMS alerts
Tutorials
Install docker-based TurtleBot3 simulator
Assign v4l2 device a static name
Video: Custom Teleoperation View
FAQ & Troubleshooting
Overview
Telemetry
FAQs
Handling text logs in Formant
Hardware acceleration of video encoding without Jetson GPU
Overlay timestamp on video
Change ROS workspace URI for agent after installation
Add GeoJSON information to a location module
Latency of Formant features
Reduce the density of point cloud data
Create view of a particular stream from all devices in a group
Visualize a numeric without a chart
Does map consume bandwidth even though ROS topic is not updating?
Change time zone in observability
Resize and reorder modules in a device view
Troubleshooting
Module shows “Seek” even though data is ingested
Cannot add multiple topics to a stream
ROS topic cannot be ingested as both image and video
Cannot access directory watch files
I don't see ROS data in Formant
Teleoperation
FAQs
Use formant.run_script in teleop
Difference in video quality between telemetry and teleoperation
Stamp twist data
Troubleshooting
Issues connecting to device via teleop
RTSP camera not working
Formant web app
FAQs
Supported browser
Searching events
Logout due to inactivity
Send a text message from Formant with more data
Disable and remove notifications for old interventions
Enable command buttons only during interventions
Create annotation when template does not exist
Pull reports from Formant
Exporting asset data to external cloud storage
Troubleshooting
Position layer is at 0 in 3D Scene module
Scheduled command sends unexpected parameter
Overview page: map displays devices in wrong location
Value does not persist in view despite 'persist last known value'
Can't export images, video, JSON via Google Cloud Platform integration
Export Events not working
Can't mark notifications as read
3D Scene: Only first field in marker array rendered
3D Scene: Realtime odometry doesn't work in teleop
Cannot delete group
Formant agent
FAQs
Link roslaunch with Docker
Does the agent restart adapters?
Device states
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting an agent installation
Generate Formant agent logs
Datapoint not being uploaded
Error: context deadline exceeded
ImportError in Formant agent log: cannot import name 'cygrpc' from 'grpc._cython'
Error installing or uninstalling agent: mv: cannot stat '/usr/lib/formant/sidecar/sudoers.d/formant': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing package formant-sidecar (--configure):
Formant agent occupies port 9090
Cannot connect to Formant agent on different network
Error invoking Docker in Formant terminal
Expired key incident
APIs & SDKs
FAQs
Programmatically update tags on a device
Forward a local web page or port to your client device
Add dropdown to selection intervention request
Get the name of a user's role using the Admin API
Troubleshooting
post_text data gets truncated
Using getLatestTelemetry in Data SDK isn't updating
Error 422 when creating device with fctl
Cloud SDK not always returning all info
Timeout error during SSH via fctl
Data ingestion from a device
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