Two machines one ROS master connection rejected

asked 2015-03-31 18:49:54 -0500

luketheduke
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updated 2015-04-01 10:32:32 -0500

Hi, I am trying to view Kinect data in RVIZ on a remote client in ROS. I have exported the ROS_MASTER_URI to set to the machine with the roscore running but it won't send back any data. Rviz gives this error:

[ WARN] [1427845377.406032758]: ROS_HOSTNAME / ROS_IP is set to only allow local connections, so a requested connection to 'lukas-Inspiron-N7010' is being rejected.

How can I fix this? Both machines are running Ubuntu 14.04 with Indigo. I followed this tutorial and I couldn't get them talking to each other although I can see the topics being published with rostopic echo. All help is appreciated. Thanks, luketheduke

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Have you set ROS_IP to the IP of the interface connected to the other computer?

BennyRe ( 2015-04-01 00:51:45 -0500 )edit

So if bot is the computer I am running the roscore on, I should set the ROS_IP of the other computer to that of bot?

luketheduke ( 2015-04-01 07:09:05 -0500 )edit

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No. Set it to the IP of your computer.

BennyRe ( 2015-04-01 08:29:26 -0500 )edit

OK! That clarifies it. I'll try it soon here when I get a minute. Another quick question: do I have to set these every time I boot or are they saved? Thanks, luketheduke

luketheduke ( 2015-04-01 10:32:09 -0500 )edit

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answered 2015-04-02 01:58:41 -0500

BennyRe
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Set the environment variable ROS_IPon your machine to the IP of your computer. If you have more than one network interfaces take the interface that connects to the network of the robot.

If you want to set this variable persistently append the export statement to your .bashrc.

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This doesn't work for me. I have a robot at 192.168.0.1 (with rosmaster running) and a laptop at 192.168.0.222. They can ping and communicate successfully

Robot has variables: ROS_IP=192.168.0.1 and ROS_MASTER_URI=http://192.168.0.1:11311 Laptop has variables: ROS_IP=192.168.0.222 and ROS_MASTER_URI=http://192.168.0.1:1311

But when launching rviz I also get [ WARN] [1573849670.099213432]: ROS_HOSTNAME / ROS_IP is set to only allow local connections, so a requested connection to '192.168.0.1' is being rejected.

jbb55 ( 2019-11-15 14:46:12 -0500 )edit

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answered 2019-11-15 16:24:11 -0500

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What solved it for me:

On the laptop, ROS_HOSTNAME wasn't set (nothing in .bashrc). After launching rviz on the laptop, I looked at the environmental variables again, and saw that something had set ROS_HOSTNAME=localhost, which seems to have the effect of causing it to reject remote connections.

Solution: on the laptop, set ROS_HOSTNAME=$ROS_IP (I added this to .bachrc, after ROS_IP=<ip addr of laptop>). Then remote connections are accepted.

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ROS_HOSTNAME should be a hostname, not an IP address (which ROS_IP is). Also, if both ROS_HOSTNAME and ROS_IP are set, ROS_HOSTNAME will take precedence. See the Environment Variables page on the wiki

jayess ( 2019-11-16 12:14:48 -0500 )edit

@jayess can you clarify why launching rviz would result in the ROS_HOSTNAME variable getting set when it wasn't set before launching it?

In other words:

printenv | grep ROS # ROS_IP and ROS_MASTER_URI are set, ROS_HOSTNAME is not present
rviz # launches rviz
# control-C to stop rviz
printenv | grep ROS # now, ROS_HOSTNAME is set to localhost

jbb55 ( 2019-11-16 12:45:11 -0500 )edit

Not sure about rviz setting any environment variables. Perhaps you should create a question about that

jayess ( 2019-11-16 15:11:18 -0500 )edit

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