Hardware: add Universal Robots arm setup tutorial#4988
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Covers the pendant and network steps that aren't anywhere in the existing arm documentation or the viam:universal-robots module README: admin password prompt, static IP, Security > Services (the silent-failure step), Remote Control mode, dashboard port verification, and component configuration. Also fixes an incorrect claim in add-an-arm.md that the universal-robots module supports UR10e and UR16e (it supports UR3e, UR5e, UR7e, UR20), and links the arm row to the new tutorial. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
docs/hardware/tutorials/universal-robots.md, a full end-to-end setup guide for UR3e / UR5e / UR7e / UR20 arms: power-on, admin password, static IP on the pendant, enabling Security → Services (the silent-failure step new e-Series arms hit), Remote Control mode, dashboard port verification, Viam component configuration, and a troubleshooting catalog keyed to real failure modes.docs/hardware/tutorials/_index.mdas the landing page for a new Hardware tutorials subsection, intended to hold step-by-step vendor-specific setup guides whose quirks don't fit the genericcommon-components/add-a-*pages.docs/hardware/common-components/add-an-arm.md: the arm-model search list claimed UR10e and UR16e are supported. Theviam:universal-robotsmodule actually supports UR3e, UR5e, UR7e, UR20. Updates the list and links the arm row to the new tutorial.Why this page exists
Setting up a UR arm on Viam right now requires piecing together information from the module README (attributes only), the generic
add-an-armpage (no UR specifics), and Universal Robots documentation (no Viam specifics). The failure modes are opaque: ping works while the Viam module reports "Failed to connect to UR dashboard" because Security → Services ships with Dashboard Server, Primary Client Interface, and RTDE disabled on new arms. Remote Control requires two separate toggles. The tutorial captures the full sequence so new users don't have to reverse-engineer it.Test plan
add-an-arm.mdresolves to the new tutorial.🤖 Generated with Claude Code