Getting started

Short pages, in the order most people need them. If you have used a terminal before, the first one takes about two minutes.

• Your first connection

  SSH to a host, or open a serial port to a console.

• Building a button

  Blocks, placeholders, and the confirm gate.

• Global variables

  One value, every button. Where the file lives and how it is read.

• Hiding button sets

  Keep a long panel readable without deleting anything.

• Button sets per connection

  Show only the sets that belong to the host in front of you.

• Tagging hosts and sets

  Tag a switch "cisco" and every set tagged "cisco" appears on it.

• Favourites, and copying a button

  Star the ones you reach for. Copy a shipped button and make it yours.

• Command help while you type

  The terminal recognises the command and offers the page, with each example as a builder.

• SSH keys

  Generate ED25519 or RSA, import an existing key, deploy it to a host.

• Sharing a set

  Export a .buttons.json and publish it to the exchange.

• Export connections for SecureCRT

  Your connection list as a CSV SecureCRT can import. Connections only.

• Importing PuTTY sessions

  Convert saved sessions and bring them across.

• How updates work

  Which installs update themselves, and which you replace by hand.

• Changelog

  What changed in each release, newest first.