polling an event stream

asked 2015-10-02 11:30:27 -0500

aaser
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Hi, I'm very new to ROS, and I'm having some issues understanding what the correct way to poll an event stream is. Currently I am reading events from an xbox controller, and I want to present a snapshot of the current controller state say 60 times per second. The code I've come up with is http://pastebin.com/N8GvK2eM , (and less important, http://pastebin.com/u0J179e2 ).

This seems to be the wrong way to go about things, as I can't seem to find a way to actually make it run as an ROS node. What is the correct way to design this? Am I thinking about it wrong, or is there a simple yet obvious flaw? Running ROS indigo on linux mint.

answered 2015-10-03 09:44:26 -0500

destogl

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updated 2015-10-03 09:45:45 -0500

You should initalise ros node with:

rospy.init_node()

for explanation check here.

So you should write something like this:

if __name__ == '__main__':

    rospy.init_node('xbox_controller')

    try:
        loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
        loop.add_reader(xboxc, partial(read_events, xboxc))
        loop.run_until_complete(summarize())

    except rospy.ROSInterruptException:

            pass

But if you use xbox controller with ROS probably you want to use joy package.

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Thanks, appreciate it, and it seems like it's just what I was looking for too. I am aware of the joy package, but I wanted to use a controller as a learning tool since I get so much feedback from the system, rather than trying to divine why my arduino isnt blinking like it should. Thanks a lot!

aaser ( 2015-10-03 14:23:54 -0500 )edit

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destogl ( 2015-10-06 03:38:48 -0500 )edit

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