Idea is to introduce a small utility that would be able to check whether configuration and setup of the robot controller and driver is as it should be, and prints a report of identified potential issues if this is not the case.
Compare this to roswtf and the new ROS 2 doctor commands.
List of things to check (@fmauch feel free to add to the list):
'reverse port' configured in the External Control urcap on the controller
IP configured in the External Control urcap on the controller
whether URCap is running (in situations where it should be running)
system software version of the controller
checking the correct controllers have been configured/started (#68)
Additional items could be added based on issues opened here on the tracker.
Intent is to help users avoid common configuration mistakes and by achieving this to reduce the number of support requests logged on the tracker.
fmauch
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4 years ago
Idea is to introduce a small utility that would be able to check whether configuration and setup of the robot controller and driver is as it should be, and prints a report of identified potential issues if this is not the case.
Compare this to
roswtfand the new ROS 2doctorcommands.List of things to check (@fmauch feel free to add to the list):
Additional items could be added based on issues opened here on the tracker.
Intent is to help users avoid common configuration mistakes and by achieving this to reduce the number of support requests logged on the tracker.