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Quick Reference
Concepts overview
Devices and Groups
Agent
Ingestion, Streams, Datapoints, and Assets
Views and Modules
Tags
Events
Commands
Teleoperation
Adapters
Getting started with formant
Overview
Receiving the introductory email
Setting up your device
Create a device
Install the Formant agent
Install the Formant agent via Docker
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
Configure 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
Create a command
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 point cloud stream
Add a realtime odometry stream
Add a relocalization stream
Add buttons to your teleoperation interface
Add a navigation stream
Using the localization and relocalization workflows
Monitor network statistics during teleoperation
Setting up your Formant organization
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)
Configure access levels with tags
Fleet management
Create a channel
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
Data share
Share with external users
Deep Linking - Share with Formant users
Adapters
Add an adapter
ROS 2 Adapter
JSON decomposition adapter
ROS service adapter
ZeroMQ 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
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
Set custom directories for agent data operations
Formant Analytics
Analytics overview
Create an Analytics view and add modules
Custom SQL queries in Formant Analytics
Task summaries
Create a task summary
Working with the Formant app
Device Groups
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
Marker arrays in the Scene module
Develop custom 3D Scene maps and layers
Add a custom module
Custom portal
Build a white-labeled robotics interface
Create a custom workflow email template
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Single sign-on
Configure Google SSO
Configure OpenID Connect (OIDC) SSO
Audit changes to your Formant organization
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
Reduce bandwidth in constrained situations
Bypass Formant video encoder
Create view of a particular stream from all devices in a group
Reduce the density of point cloud data
Visualize a numeric without a chart
Get the name of a user's role using the Admin API
Exporting asset data to external cloud storage
Supported browser
Resize and reorder modules in a device view
Does the agent restart adapters?
Add dropdown to selection intervention request
Send a text message from Formant with more data
Pull reports from Formant
Searching events
Create annotation when template does not exist
Forward a local web page or port to your client device
Difference in video quality between telemetry and teleoperation
Hardware acceleration of video encoding without Jetson GPU
Does map consume bandwidth even though ROS topic is not updating?
Handling text logs in Formant
Programmatically update the tags of a device
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
Issues connecting to device via teleop
Can't mark notifications as read
Images black, glitchy, out of order when ingesting pre-encoded video
Scheduled command sends unexpected parameter
Can't export images, video, JSON via Google Cloud Platform integration
Error 422 when creating device with fctl
Position layer is at 0 in 3D Scene module
Using getLatestTelemetry in Data SDK isn't updating
post_text data gets truncated
Value does not persist in view despite 'persist last known value'
Cannot add multiple topics to a stream
ROS topic cannot be ingested as both image and video
Configuring telemetry data buffer sizes
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