How do I try PHAEMOS without any hardware?

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Is there a way to see the dashboard, alerts and anomaly scoring working on a laptop before buying or wiring any boards?

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Yes. The whole platform runs locally with a simulator standing in for the four nodes:

cp .env.example .env
make dev
pip install -e client/python
phaemos-sim --node esp32 --count 5 --dry-run

make dev starts PostgreSQL, Redis and the API in Docker, then the dashboard. --dry-run prints readings instead of sending them. To see them on the dashboard, register a device, copy its API key and run phaemos-sim --node esp32 --fault bearing --count 60 --interval 1 --api-key <device key>. The --fault option injects a developing fault, so the readings and the anomaly score drift the way a failing machine would.

docs/development.md has the full walkthrough and client/README.md lists every option.