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Is the rosseral_xbee package compatible to ROS Kinetic?

asked 2018-06-23 15:18:33 -0500

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I am using ROS kinetic, and I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

I want to sent digital data (pairs of numbers in fixed frequency), from my PC (with ROS) to an XBee. I tried to download and setup the rosserial_xbee package from http://wiki.ros.org/rosserial_xbee . The source link https://github.com/ros-drivers/rosserial was for jade-devel distro by default and there was not the kinetic option in the drop-down menu. I downloaded the jade-devel version. Is this package compatible for ROS kinetic? If it's not, how can I find a compatible package? I didn't find any errors during the downloading process. How can I be sure that the package was correctly downloaded and installed?

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Assuming that by downloading you mean cloning the repo, I can't imagine you having errors just by downloading. The errors would probably happen when you compile and/or run the package. Have you tried compiling the package or running the nodes?

jayess gravatar image jayess  ( 2018-06-23 15:38:12 -0500 )edit

I have tried to compile the package with catkin_make command without any errors, though I haven't try to check if it works with xbee hardware yet.

Spyros gravatar image Spyros  ( 2018-06-24 12:25:46 -0500 )edit

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answered 2018-07-03 10:25:29 -0500

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The Github repository of rosserial uses the jade-devel branch because nobody have created one. But it works for sure on Kinetic.

Actually, from Ubuntu, you can download the binary package ros-kinetic-rosserial-xbee with apt.

I have never used the rosserial_xbee package, but if you find any issue using it with a recent ROS distribution, feel free to open an issue on the Github page: https://github.com/ros-drivers/rosser...

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