FAQ

General

• A plugin is not enabled

Menu/Help/Edit Initialization

• A menu option is not visible.

Menu/Help/Edit UI

• The window layout does not look like I'm used to. A pane is missing?

Menu/Window/Reset Layout  
or  
Menu/View  and select name of pane to make visible

• I closed a pane by accident. How to I get it back?

See 3.

⚠️ Pane Management

Github

• Cannot add a repository.

1. Use a Personal access token instead of username/password in Pychron/Preferences/Github
2. Make sure when setting up the Personal access token that "repo" is a selected scope

Data Reduction

Laser

• Laser shuts off by itself, after being on for a long time.

As a safety mechanism the laser will automatically shut off after a specified timeout duration. 
This duration defaults to 60 minutes and is set in `setupfiles/monitors/laser_monitor.cfg` 

[General]
max_duration=120 # minutes. automatically shut off laser after 2 hours

Data Collection