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Emulab FAQ: Testbed Operations: How do I grant access to the Emulab Mobile Wireless Testbed.

"robot" and "mote" are classes of node types. Use these commands to grant access, replacing $pid with the project name:

    grantnodetype -p $pid robot
    grantnodetype -p $pid mote

Here's a message template you can send to the user:

We've granted you access to the robots and the mica motes, so you should
be able to mess around with them now.  If you haven't already found it,
there is a short tutorial for using the robots here:

http://www.emulab.net/tutorial/mobilewireless.php3

Also, if you're having robot-related problems, you'll want to send mail to:

testbed-robocops@flux.utah.edu

instead of "testbed-ops" since it will reach the robot knowledgeable people. Until we get auto-charger bases for the Garcia's, swapping-in a robot experiment requires manual intervention. When there is a large time difference involved, we'll have to work something out so the user can still run the robots while we're not physically present to change batteries and fix any random problems. (For example, swap in before going home.)

The static motes should be usable all the time though.