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Operations and Debugging

This section is for practical lab knowledge that should not stay in one person's head.

Setup gets a new user working. Design Choices explains why the system looks the way it does. This section is for the things you learn by actually running the rig:

  • machine-specific USB controller layout
  • hardware habits that prevent bad sessions
  • concrete runbooks for the current validated rig
  • debugging paths for viewer, recording, and conversion failures

The goal is not to turn this into a scratchpad. The goal is to preserve the knowledge that operators and maintainers will need again.

Current Pages

What Belongs Here

Examples of good content for this section:

  • which physical USB ports should be used for multiple RealSense cameras
  • what the healthy hardware layout looks like on the current machine
  • known viewer failure modes and how to recognize them
  • dataset-folder mistakes that cause conversion or review failures
  • machine/account quirks that affect real data collection

Examples of content that should usually live elsewhere:

  • first-time operator instructions
  • put those in Setup
  • stable architectural rationale
  • put that in Design Choices
  • implementation notes, abandoned approaches, or scratch notes
  • keep those out of the curated docs surface

Planned Additions

This section should grow over time. Likely future pages include:

  • home-position and joint-range guidance once the helper exists
  • viewer troubleshooting patterns
  • dataset schema and published-folder gotchas
  • per-rig hardware notes as the setup evolves