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Getting started with formant
Overview
Receiving the introductory email
Setting up your device
Install the Formant agent
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
Viewing data in Formant
The overview page
The timeline
Views and modules
Create a view and add modules
Events and notifications
Create an event and configure notifications
Create a custom event
Commands
Issue a command
Schedule a command
Intervention requests
Teleoperation
Telemetry vs. realtime data streams
Add a teleoperation image stream
Add a mouse click stream
Add an audio stream
Configure joystick control
Add a joint states stream
Add a geometry stream
Add a point cloud stream
Add a realtime odometry stream
Add a relocalization stream
Add a navigation stream
Using the localization and relocalization workflows
Setting up your organization
Add teammates
Configure access levels
Advanced Telemetry Guide
Data ingestion from a device
How telemetry streams work
Default streams
Configuring stream rate (Throttling)
Orientation and Altitude
On-demand streams
Restrict stream rate
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
Mission and data annotations
Commands
Create custom commands
Scheduling Commands
Data share
Share with external users
Deep Linking - Share with Formant users
Ingesting ROS2 Data with the Formant ROS2 Adapter
Advanced Teleoperation Guide
Introduction
URDF
Teleop connectivity
Sending more than two images
Handle disconnections safely
Adding a custom view to the sidebar
The Formant Agent
Advanced agent provisioning
Installing the Formant agent using Docker
Agent installation with Apt
Re-provisioning an agent
Bulk provisioning
Automated provisioning
Formant agent management
Managing a native installation
Managing a docker installation
Update the agent
Environment variables for the agent
Agent FAQ
Terminal and port forwarding security
Expired key incident
Configuration Templates
Working with the Formant app
Device Groups
Device Configuration
Upload files to Formant Cloud
Delete a device
Hot keys
views and modules
Overview
3D scene module
Add a 3D Scene module
3D Scene configuration
Develop custom 3D Scene maps and layers
Analytics View
Add an Analytics view
Task summaries
Create a task summary
Add a custom module
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Overview
Users, service accounts, and teams
Resources & roles
Custom roles
Scoping down access to specific entities
Single sign-on
Google SSO
SSH & VPN
SSH to your robot
Troubleshooting SSH connectivity
Setting up VPN tunnel over SSH to your robot
Tutorials
Install docker-based TurtleBot3 simulator
Assign v4l2 device a static name
Video: Custom Teleoperation View
Integrations
Overview
Send events to PagerDuty
Trigger Webhooks from events
Send events to Slack
Integrate with Google Sheets
Event-triggered SMS alerts
FAQ & Troubleshooting
Overview
FAQs
Device states
Use formant.run_script in teleop
Logout due to inactivity
Stamp twist data
Overlay timestamp on video
Add a stream to the overview page
Add GeoJSON information to a location module
Change ROS workspace URI for agent after installation
Latency of Formant features
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting an agent installation
How do I generate Formant agent logs?
Video performing poorly
Timeout error during SSH via fctl
ImportError: cannot import name 'cygrpc' from 'grpc._cython'
mv: cannot stat '/usr/lib/formant/sidecar/sudoers.d/formant': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing package formant-sidecar (--configure):
Cloud SDK not always returning all info
Formant agent occupies port 9090
Export Events not working
Data visualization
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