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Machines and activation

A machine is one laptop authorised to send recordings into your workspace. Your plan is priced by how many can be active at once — the same way the rest of this trade prices tools.

Activating one

Install Rignos, sign in with a shop account (owner, admin or tech — not a customer), and the app registers the machine and receives its token. Two-factor applies if the account has it on; a new activation path is not allowed to become a back door around 2FA.

Naming and finding machines

Machines default to the computer name, which is rarely memorable. Two fields make them findable when a customer calls:

  • Email — the customer the laptop lives with, for remote-tuning setups.
  • ESN — the engine serial the machine usually works on.

The quick-search box on the Machines and Customers pages searches customers, machines and trucks at once. Search is always scoped to your shop.

Revoking

Revoke a machine and its token stops working on the next request. The app then refuses to upload — but it does not destroy recordings already made. Sessions already uploaded stay where they are; history does not disappear because a laptop did.

Deleting

A machine can only be deleted after it has been revoked. Deleting a live machine would kill a laptop mid-job in the field, so the server refuses it rather than merely hiding the button. Past sessions keep the machine name they were recorded under.

Reinstalls and replacements

  • Same computer, fresh Windows: sign in again; the token is re-issued into the existing machine row. No slot is wasted.
  • New laptop replacing an old one: revoke the old machine first, then activate the new one, or you will hit the plan cap.

If the shop goes over its plan

Machines already activated keep working. What stops is adding more. We do not switch off a laptop that is in the field mid-job because a subscription changed tier.

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