hal_status: Diagnose your hal installation in one call

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Diagnose your hal installation in one call

Description

Prints a traffic-light report covering everything between you and a working hal() call: which backend is selected (and why), whether its transport is reachable, what the active session looks like, and – when something is wrong – the single next step to fix it.

Usage

hal_status()

Details

This is the first thing to run when hal misbehaves, and the thing to paste into a bug report.

Value

Invisibly, a list with elements backend, backend_source, available, detail, session_active, model, and next_step (NULL when everything is ready).

See Also

hal_setup(), hal_available(), hal_bridge_status(), hal_config()

Examples

## Not run: 
hal_status()

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hal documentation built on Oct. 6, 2026, 5:07 p.m.