Unable to publish to subscriber running on android

asked 2018-04-16 14:20:18 -0500

vvyogi
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updated 2018-04-16 14:21:33 -0500

I am trying to debug a pub-sub node pair implemented on android (ROS-android). Following are the details:

ROS-Core is running locally on android. A publisher and a subscriber are also running on the android phone (no emulator).

On PC side the following settings are made ROS_IP=pc_ip, ROS_HOSTNAME=android_ip, ROS_MASTER_URI =android_ip

All nodes are visible when I run rostopic list Able to echo the published topic. (std_msgs.String)
Not able to send data to the subscriber. Then I looked into the TCP packets (using wireshark) and it appears the following transactions are happening:

get pid (method call) - result : success
register service - result : success
Some broken message passing <irrelevant as="" the="" appearance="" of="" this="" packet="" exchange="" is="" random=""> [FIN,ACK] [ACK]
register publisher - result : success RETURNS the right address of the subscriber

The ROS-master running on android is sending the correct address yet the android application is crashing with following message:

04-17 00:49:10.604 2563-3001/com.example.vivek.sampleb I/HttpMethodDirector: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection refused
04-17 00:49:10.605 2563-3001/com.example.vivek.sampleb I/HttpMethodDirector: Retrying request
04-17 00:49:10.608 2563-3001/com.example.vivek.sampleb I/HttpMethodDirector: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection refused
04-17 00:49:10.609 2563-3001/com.example.vivek.sampleb I/HttpMethodDirector: Retrying request
04-17 00:49:10.613 2563-3001/com.example.vivek.sampleb I/HttpMethodDirector: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing request: Connection refused
    Retrying request

Wireshark packets

I hope someone here can help me with this issue.

answered 2018-04-16 14:53:23 -0500

gvdhoorn
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updated 2018-04-18 13:43:25 -0500

On PC side the following settings are made [..], ROS_HOSTNAME=android_ip [..]

this makes no sense to me. Why did you set ROS_HOSTNAME to the IP of the android device?

Edit:

The ROS master is running on the android phone thus I set HOSTNAME to android_ip. Is that wrong?

yes, that is not correct. ROS_IP ~= ROS_HOSTNAME: both store information about the local machine, not something remote. Only ROS_MASTER_URI ever points to a remote IP / host.

Please note that only one of them is needed. If you set ROS_IP, you don't need ROS_HOSTNAME and the other way around.

Or to be more precise: don't fill in the same information in the two. ROS_HOSTNAME should be set to hostnames, and things will only work if you've got a working DNS for all involved hosts (note: both forward and reverse lookups need to work).

If you set ROS_IP, set it to an IP, not a hostname. If you do this, you don't need DNS, but it's obviously less flexible in the face of (frequent) IP changes of the involved hosts (such as with an 'overactive' DHCP server).

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The ROS master is running on the android phone thus I set HOSTNAME to android_ip. Is that wrong? Moreover, As I was able to receive (rostopic echo) the data coming from the android phone I thought these settings are correct.

vvyogi ( 2018-04-17 00:27:08 -0500 )edit

Understood (Thank you). It works with the HOSTNAME set to PC's IP address. I am however getting another ()error while closing the connection to master . Would you please take a look

vvyogi ( 2018-04-18 12:53:13 -0500 )edit

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