Do test stations need permanent internet access?
Updated July 7, 2026
No. Every completed run is persisted to a local queue before upload; a background loop drains it every few seconds and retries with backoff from 15 seconds up to a 1 hour cap, so network outages lose no data. Inspect or replay the queue with commands like "tofupilot list-queue", "tofupilot queue-retry", and "tofupilot queue-export". Fully offline factories run the self-hosted deployment instead.
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