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Description

Part of #985. Stacked on #1037.

Nine modules imported common as a top-level module, which resolved only because the invoked script's own directory landed on sys.path. They broke under python -m, broke when copied into another project, and claimed the very generic bare name common. This moves the tree to the layout in examples/README.md.

uv pip install -e ./examples/mcap_record_replay
python -m isaacteleop_examples.mcap_record_replay.record_hand
python -m isaacteleop_examples.mcap_record_replay.replay_hand

Twelve co-equal scripts, so no __main__.py; the new README maps each channel to its live/record/replay module.

One behaviour change, forced by the move. Recordings defaulted to Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "recordings", which resolved to the example directory. Three levels deeper that expression points inside the package, and for a pip-installed copy it would write into site-packages. Recordings now default to ./recordings/ relative to the working directory, and the replay scripts look in the same place. The old path only ever made sense from a source checkout.

References updated beyond docs/: rigs/full_body.yaml, src/plugins/noitom_mocap/README.md, src/plugins/vive_se3_tracker/README.md.

A second, deliberate behaviour change: all seven viser viewers bind 0.0.0.0 rather than 127.0.0.1, for the same reason — these run on a robot or workstation and get opened from a laptop. --host 127.0.0.1 restores the old behaviour. Each startup line now reports the bind address instead of always printing localhost.

The viser grid was a wall, not a floor. add_grid defaults to plane="xy", but the scene sets set_up_direction("+y") — so the grid stood vertical in every viewer. It is now an xz ground plane, 6 m with 0.25 m cells, and the camera starts centred on the origin at eye height so a tracked person fills the view on connect. That setup is a single setup_scene() helper in common.py rather than seven copies.

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Documentation update

Testing

x86_64 / Ubuntu, Python 3.12. Wheel ships isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/ with no namespace __init__.py. uv pip install -e ./examples/mcap_record_replay into a clean venv, then all 12 modules import with the CWD outside the repo; import common fails, so the flat name is gone rather than relocated. pre-commit clean.

Not covered: recording needs a live OpenXR runtime. Replay against an existing .mcap is the cheapest check that the new ./recordings/ default behaves.

Checklist

• I have read and understood the contribution guidelines
• I have run the linter and formatter with SKIP=check-copyright-year pre-commit run --all-files
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• I have added tests that prove my fix/feature works (or explained why not)
• I have signed off all my commits (git commit -s) per the DCO

_{No tests: this is a move, and this example has no automated coverage.}

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation

  • Updated MCAP recording and replay instructions to use the relocated Python examples and module-based commands.
  • Added setup, usage, networking, supported-channel, runtime, and file-location guidance.
  • Updated tracker, plugin, and headless replay examples with the current commands.

• New Features

  • Added automatic ground-grid and camera positioning for visualization scenes.
  • Recording and replay tools now default to ./recordings/ in the current working directory.
  • Improved package installation support for editable local development.

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The MCAP record/replay example now installs as a Hatchling package and runs through Python module commands. Recording and replay default to the current working directory’s ./recordings/ directory. Shared Viser scene setup adds a ground grid that follows tracked body height and updates full-body visualization. Related device, plugin, rig, README, and reference documentation now uses the relocated package workflow.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PythonModule
  participant setup_scene
  participant GroundGrid
  participant FullBodyViz
  PythonModule->>setup_scene: initialize the Viser scene
  setup_scene->>GroundGrid: create the ground-grid controller
  PythonModule->>FullBodyViz: pass the GroundGrid
  FullBodyViz->>GroundGrid: forward body positions and validity
  GroundGrid->>GroundGrid: smooth floor height and reframe cameras

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[ivany-nv]

Two things riding along with the move.

The output directory is no longer gitignored. Path(__file__).parent.parent / "recordings" -> Path.cwd() / "recordings" is the right call for an installed copy, but the ignore rule is scoped to the example directory:

$ git check-ignore -v examples/mcap_record_replay/recordings/x.mcap
examples/mcap_record_replay/.gitignore:1:recordings   examples/mcap_record_replay/recordings/x.mcap
$ git check-ignore -v recordings/x.mcap
(not ignored)

The README tells you to run from the repo root (uv pip install -e ./examples/mcap_record_replay, then python -m ...), so following it drops untracked .mcap files at the root. Needs a /recordings/ entry in the root .gitignore. Same issue in #1043 with local_datasets/.

Seven more --host default flips. Same change I flagged on #1034; that makes eight files carrying default="0.0.0.0", # noqa: S104, and they are the only S104 suppressions in the repo. A behaviour change this broad reads better as its own PR than as a rider on eight packaging commits -- --host 0.0.0.0 already exists for the workflow it's meant to serve.

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examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/live_controller.py (1)

44-45: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Security Misconfiguration (CWE-16)

Reachability: External · Exploitability: Trivial

Keep the Viser bind default local.

When no --host is supplied, 0.0.0.0 exposes controller tracking telemetry on every interface. Change the default to 127.0.0.1 and require an explicit --host 0.0.0.0 for remote access across all Viser viewer entry points.

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In
`@examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/live_controller.py`
around lines 44 - 45, Update the Viser HTTP bind address argument in the live
controller configuration to default to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0, while
preserving explicit --host values such as 0.0.0.0 for remote access; apply this
consistently across all Viser viewer entry points.

Source: Path instructions

examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/live_full_body.py (1)

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Security Misconfiguration (CWE-668)

Reachability: External

Reachability path

● Entry
  examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/replay_se3_vive.py:41
  resolve_mcap
│
▼
● Hop
  examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/replay_full_body.py:58
  resolve_mcap
│
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● Hop
  examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/replay_hand.py:57
  resolve_mcap
│
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● Hop
  examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/replay_controller.py:120
  main
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● Sink
  examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/live_full_body.py

Keep viewer binding on loopback by default.

All six viewers bind viser.ViserServer to 0.0.0.0 without an authentication boundary. Set the default to 127.0.0.1. Retain --host for explicit remote access.

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In
`@examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/live_full_body.py`
around lines 39 - 40, Change the default ViserServer host from 0.0.0.0 to
127.0.0.1 while preserving the existing --host override for explicit remote
access. Apply this to the viewer host arguments in live_full_body.py (lines
39-40), live_hand.py (lines 37-38), replay_controller.py (lines 125-126),
replay_full_body.py (lines 125-126), replay_hand.py (lines 120-121), and
replay_se3_vive.py (lines 205-206).

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/source/references/mcap_record_replay.rst`:
- Around line 202-203: Create a repository-root .gitignore entry for
/recordings/ so default recorder output under Path.cwd() / "recordings" is
ignored when run from the checkout root.
- Around line 181-183: Update the mcap record/replay documentation commands to
be run from the repository root: use the valid editable-install path, invoke the
packaged replay_hand module instead of a file path, and reference recordings via
./recordings/ to match the implementation’s Path.cwd() lookup.

In
`@examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/live_full_body.py`:
- Around line 8-9: Update the viewer access documentation in live_full_body.py
(lines 8-9) and live_hand.py (lines 8-9) to avoid recommending remote access
over plain HTTP; instruct users to use a TLS-terminating reverse proxy, or
change the default --host configuration to 127.0.0.1.

In
`@examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/record_controller.py`:
- Line 49: Add /recordings/ to the repository root .gitignore so recordings
created by all four recorder entry points are ignored. Apply the root-level
ignore change; no direct changes are needed in record_controller.py,
record_full_body.py, record_hand.py, or record_se3_vive.py.

In
`@examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/replay_controller.py`:
- Line 71: Filter automatic recording discovery by replay type: in
replay_controller.py at lines 71-71, update the recording selection to use
controllers_*.mcap; in replay_full_body.py at lines 65-65, use full_body_*.mcap;
and in replay_hand.py at lines 64-64, use hands_*.mcap. Preserve selecting the
newest matching recording in each resolver.

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Outside diff comments:
In
`@examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/live_controller.py`:
- Around line 44-45: Update the Viser HTTP bind address argument in the live
controller configuration to default to 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0, while
preserving explicit --host values such as 0.0.0.0 for remote access; apply this
consistently across all Viser viewer entry points.

In
`@examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/live_full_body.py`:
- Around line 39-40: Change the default ViserServer host from 0.0.0.0 to
127.0.0.1 while preserving the existing --host override for explicit remote
access. Apply this to the viewer host arguments in live_full_body.py (lines
39-40), live_hand.py (lines 37-38), replay_controller.py (lines 125-126),
replay_full_body.py (lines 125-126), replay_hand.py (lines 120-121), and
replay_se3_vive.py (lines 205-206).

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• docs/source/device/trackers.rst
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• examples/mcap_record_replay/CMakeLists.txt
• examples/mcap_record_replay/README.md
• examples/mcap_record_replay/pyproject.toml
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/__init__.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/common.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/live_controller.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/live_full_body.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/live_hand.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/record_controller.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/record_full_body.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/record_hand.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/record_se3_vive.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/replay_controller.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/replay_full_body.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/replay_hand.py
• examples/mcap_record_replay/python/isaacteleop_examples/mcap_record_replay/replay_se3_vive.py
• rigs/full_body.yaml
• src/plugins/noitom_mocap/README.md
• src/plugins/vive_se3_tracker/README.md

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Verified this at 887db467: built from source in a scratch worktree, installed
into a separate prefix, and ran the replay path end-to-end. The packaging work
itself is solid. What I found is that the move to module invocation stopped at
the code — the user-visible strings and one documented workflow still describe
the old script layout — plus one edge case in the new auto-discovery filter.

What passed

• cmake configure / --build / --install into a separate prefix: clean, no
  errors, no clang-format violations, wheel builds.
• ctest: 354/356. The two failures are camera_viz_test_synthetic_offscreen
  and camera_viz_test_video_file_source, both offscreen-GPU/codec limits of my
  box, and this PR touches no camera_viz file.
• PEP 420 layout in the installed tree is correct: no __init__.py at
  isaacteleop_examples/, only-include path present,
  isaacteleop[cloudxr]==1.5+local pinned.
• The new type-prefixed auto-discovery works. With a newer controllers_*.mcap
  and an older full_body_*.mcap both in ./recordings/, replay_full_body
  with no argument correctly picks the full_body_* file — the bug the commit
  set out to fix. All four recorder prefixes (controllers_, full_body_,
  hands_, se3_vive_) match their replay globs.

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1. The full_body rig's documented replay step cannot find the rig's own recordings

rigs/full_body.yaml is modified by this PR, and the line it changes now points
at a directory the replay never looks in.

The rig runs from the repo root and tells the C++ recorder where to write:

cwd: ..                        # -> Teleop repo root
    command: "{install}/examples/mcap_record_replay/cpp/record_full_body 5 examples/mcap_record_replay/recordings/"

_{rigs/full_body.yaml:24, :29}

So takes land in <repo root>/examples/mcap_record_replay/recordings/, which the
comment at :16 states explicitly. But the replay instruction this PR rewrote
at :19 claims the module "picks up the newest recording there by default",
and resolve_mcap resolves against the process CWD:

recordings = Path.cwd() / "recordings"

_{replay_full_body.py:65}

Run from the repo root — the rig's own cwd, and the CWD the /recordings/
.gitignore entry in 887db467 assumes — that is <repo root>/recordings/, a
different directory. With a rig recording present in the right place:

$ ls examples/mcap_record_replay/recordings/
full_body_20260828_164337.mcap
$ python -m isaacteleop_examples.mcap_record_replay.replay_full_body
[replay] error: no .mcap files in <repo root>/recordings. Run record_full_body.py first or pass a path.

So the documented rig workflow ends in an error unless the user knows to cd
into the example directory or pass an explicit path. Worth deciding which
directory is canonical: the .gitignore commit and the README assume repo-root
CWD, while the rig and rigs/full_body.yaml:16 assume the example-local one.

2. The .py invocation form survives in the strings users actually see

The repackaging changed how these are run, but the hand-written usage lines and
error messages still tell users to run the files as scripts. These are not
comments — the module docstring is the argparse description, so it is printed
by --help:

$ python -m isaacteleop_examples.mcap_record_replay.replay_full_body --help
... replay_full_body.py [path/to/file.mcap] [--port 8080] [--loop] ...

• Usage lines: record_hand.py:13, record_controller.py:13,
  record_full_body.py:13, replay_hand.py:12, replay_full_body.py:12,
  replay_controller.py:13 — all of the form python replay_full_body.py ….

• Error messages: "Run record_full_body.py first or pass a path" —
  replay_hand.py:71, replay_full_body.py:72, replay_controller.py:78,
  replay_se3_vive.py:51.

• docs/source/references/mcap_record_replay.rst:226-229 — the Replaying
  block was left in script form even though the Recording block right above
  it (line 197) was converted to python -m …:

     uv run python replay_hand.py                       # newest file in ../recordings/
     uv run python replay_hand.py path/to/file.mcap     # explicit file
     uv run python replay_hand.py --loop                # repeat until Ctrl+C
     uv run python replay_hand.py --port 8090           # change viser port

  The surrounding prose names install/examples/mcap_record_replay as the
  working directory. Copied verbatim there it fails, because after the
  repackaging there is no .py at that level:

  $ cd install/examples/mcap_record_replay && uv run --python 3.11 python replay_hand.py
  can't open file '.../mcap_record_replay/replay_hand.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

  These four lines are also the only uv run examples in the document.

3. The "newest .mcap" wording was not updated with the behavior change

0981f53ff changed selection from "newest of any kind" to "newest
type-prefixed, else newest of any kind", but touched only the three function
bodies. The old rule is still stated in:

• replay_full_body.py:14, replay_hand.py:14, replay_controller.py:15 —
  "If no path is given, the newest file under ./recordings/ is used."
  (again, this is --help text)
• examples/mcap_record_replay/README.md:18 — "a replay given no path picks
  the newest file there", and the # newest take comment on line 14.
• docs/source/references/mcap_record_replay.rst:226 — the inline
  # newest file in ../recordings/ comment.
• rigs/full_body.yaml:19-20 — "picks up the newest recording there" (see §1
  for the separate directory problem in the same sentence).

4. The or fallback re-admits the failure it fixes, and exits 0

candidates = list(recordings.glob("full_body_*.mcap")) or list(
    recordings.glob("*.mcap")
)

_{replay_full_body.py:66-68, same shape at replay_hand.py:65 and replay_controller.py:72}

When no same-type recording exists, the fallback selects a wrong-type file
again. I checked what that does in practice, and it is worse than the commit
message's "fail with a missing-channel error" — it does not fail. With only
controllers_*.mcap present:

$ python -m isaacteleop_examples.mcap_record_replay.replay_full_body
ReplayFullBodyTrackerImpl: body data not found      # once per frame, 3490 frames
[replay] reached end of recording after 3490 frames
[replay] done — viser server still up; Ctrl+C to exit

An empty viewer and a success message, exit code 0.

The fallback has a real purpose — a recording saved under a custom name still
needs to be discoverable — so I would keep it and log that the chosen file did
not match the expected prefix, rather than degrade quietly. One warning line at
the fallback would cover it.

5. Minor: GroundGrid is now duplicated against main

common.py's GroundGrid is byte-identical, all 46 lines, to the copy in
examples/deviceio_live_view/python/isaacteleop_examples/deviceio_live_view/deviceio_viser.py,
which landed on main with #1034. Two exact copies will drift. Not a blocker,
and possibly deliberate to keep each example self-contained, but worth settling
now that both are in the tree rather than in flight.

6. Minor: uv run needs --python 3.11, and no doc says so

From the installed example, uv run without an explicit version picks the
system 3.12 and hard-fails:

$ uv run python -m isaacteleop_examples.mcap_record_replay.replay_full_body --help
Using CPython 3.12.14
error: The current Python platform is not compatible with the lockfile's supported environments: `python_full_version < '3.12'`

--python 3.11 fixes it. environments = ["python_version == '3.11'"] in
pyproject.toml makes the failure explicit rather than mysterious, which is
good, but neither the README nor the rst mentions --python anywhere — and the
rst's only uv run lines are the stale ones in §2. Worth one sentence wherever
§2 gets fixed.

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Not a defect — recorded here because it corrects an earlier suspicion of mine

On an earlier head I flagged that five of the seven setup_scene() call sites
discard the returned GroundGrid (live_hand.py:45, live_controller.py:52,
replay_hand.py:137, replay_controller.py:142, replay_se3_vive.py:119), so
those paths never call follow(). That is still true here, but it is not a
visual bug, and the reasoning that made it look like one was wrong.

I measured the actual coordinates in my own recordings:

controller aim_pos Y	median +0.833 m (range +0.647 … +1.917)
body lowest joint Y	median −0.141 m
body highest joint Y	median +1.275 m

The data reaching the examples is floor-relative — controllers sit ~0.83 m
above the origin, not below it, which is what a head-centered origin would
have produced. To be precise about what this does and does not show: it is
measured from a recording, so it cannot separate "the runtime granted a real
XR_REFERENCE_SPACE_TYPE_STAGE" from "it granted local and the client's
xrOffsetY compensation already absorbed the difference". Either way the
coordinates the examples consume are floor-relative, which is what matters here.

So a static grid at y=0 is already correct for the hand/controller viewers,
and those paths have no body joints for follow() to track anyway.
GroundGrid.follow() is a refinement that absorbs the ~0.14 m by which tracked
feet land below the nominal floor, not a correction for a head-centered origin.
No change requested on this point.