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DOC-8 review: say the field guide PDF is rebuilt, still v0.1.0
README and FIELD-GUIDE.md said the PDF was not rebuilt; it was, on
2026-10-17. Its content is still v0.1.0 and outdated. Rewrap the
DOCS.md intro line. Text only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Field Guide
The guide technicians carry is the PDF:
**`docs/GoodWe-RS485-Field-Guide.pdf`** — 10 pages, A4, print it double-sided.
⚠️ **Outdated: the content is still v0.1.0.** The PDF was rebuilt on 2026-10-17
for the EMS-port wording and the `slew_w` row only. Where the guide disagrees with
`goodwe_controller/DOCS.md`, DOCS.md wins.
It covers, in the order the work is done: pre-visit checks, hardware, firmware,
add-on install and configuration, how to read the Web UI, the six commissioning
gates, the e-stop (and the statement a site without one must sign), proving a
maintenance cycle, handover with a sign-off sheet, and troubleshooting.
## Editing it
The text lives in `docs/build_guide.py` — deliberately one source, so a Markdown
copy cannot drift from the PDF someone is holding in a cellar.
```bash
python3 docs/build_guide.py # regenerates field-guide.html and the PDF
```
Requires Chrome or Chromium (used headless for print-to-PDF); `CHROME` in the
script is a Windows path, so edit it on any other machine. Screenshots live
in `docs/img/` and are base64-embedded, so `field-guide.html` is standalone.
⚠️ **Every section must stay under the A4 printable height** (1039 px at 96 dpi
with the configured margins). Chrome silently spills an over-long section onto a
second page, and the pagination stops matching the step numbers. After editing,
open `field-guide.html` and check:
```js
document.querySelectorAll('.page').forEach(el =>
console.log(el.getBoundingClientRect().height)) // each must be < 1039
```
The PDF should always come out at exactly **one page per section**.
## Regenerating the screenshots
`docs/img/ui-running.png` and `ui-notready.png` are real captures of the add-on's
own Web UI, taken by running it against stub data. If the UI changes, retake them
— a field guide showing a screen that no longer exists is worse than one with no
screenshots at all.