RSX Rover 2017

• React frontend
• Express backend
• Connection to Arduino

Running the full toolkit

Navigate to the folder where you want to install everything

• $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/rsx-utoronto/rover
• $ cd rover

Installing Front-end

• $ cd RoverDashboard
• $ npm install

Running Front-end

• $ npm start
• Navigate to localhost:3000 in your browser

Installing Server

In a new window

• $ npm install

Running Server

• $ cd server
• $ node main.js # runs the server Can also use nodemon main.js for hot reloading.

Starting Drive

• Connect computer to the router
• Run the front-end and server.
• Click on the gear
• Hit connect for the drive arduino
• Select drive for the relevant joystick

Server Command line arguments

• -h enables help
• -all-arduinos enables all the arduinos on serial ports. see main.js for how to enable specific systems
• -v enables verbose debugging
• -l enables the lidar

Installing lidar

• Lidar should be installed in the server/lib folder: `cd server/lib
• Lidar repo can be installed with git submodule update --init --recursive
• Lidar repo can be updated with git submodule update --recursive (haven't tried this yet)

Notes:

• You can copy example_config.json to config.json if you need to set your own settings. The latter will have a higher priority.