I have installed ROS Kinetic on my turtlebot, and it works fine, the follower works. My 'Host' PC is running Ubuntu 14.04 hence only ROS Indigo is supported on this platform. I have installed ROS Indigo and it appears to work fine. When I start the Turtlebot and then run rostopic list I can see the list of published topics. When I run rostopic pub -r10 /hello std_msgs/String "hello" on the host PC, I can see the new topic on the turtlebot, but rostopic echo /hello doesn't list the events. same thing tho other direction swapping the pub and echo source and targets. I am following the directions at http://wiki.ros.org/turtlebot/Tutorials/indigo/Network%20Configuration and I am quite sure I have the IP addresses correct.

My question, is there some reason why Indigo and Kinetic don't interoperate over the network? Do I need to have the same ROS versions on the host PC, and on the Turtlebot?