Using Husky with Velodyne VLP-16

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Hi, I am working on Clearpath Husky robot with ros melodic. My goal is to use husky with velodyne VLP-16. I used this documentation and added the following lines to the /etc/ros/setup.bash to run velodyne but I did't see any topic named 'point' therefore I assumed it didn't work.

export HUSKY_LASER_3D_ENABLED=true
export HUSKY_LASER_3D_XYZ='0 0 0'
export HUSKY_LASER_3D_RPY='0.0 0.0 0.0'
export HUSKY_LASER_3D_HOST='192.168.131.20'
export HUSKY_LASER_3D_TOPIC='points'

I tried setting HUSKY_LASER_3D_HOST variable as '192.168.1.201' since it is the IP of my velodyne but still it doesn't work. Then I tried this on my PC and it worked. However, when I tried doing it on husky I couldn't figure out how to do the "1.1 Configure your computer’s IP address through the Gnome interface" step. I tried this with skipping that step and I had the following output

roslaunch velodyne_pointcloud VLP16_points.launch 
... logging to /home/administrator/.ros/log/1b8a3f46-130f-11ed-8cbc-00224dd8d768/roslaunch-cpr-a200-0760-28050.log
Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take a while.
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.

started roslaunch server http://cpr-a200-0760:36707/

SUMMARY

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PARAMETERS
 * /rosdistro: melodic
 * /rosversion: 1.14.12
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/cut_angle: -0.01
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/device_ip: 
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/frame_id: velodyne
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/gps_time: False
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/model: VLP16
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/pcap: 
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/pcap_time: False
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/port: 2368
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/read_fast: False
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/read_once: False
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/repeat_delay: 0.0
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/rpm: 600.0
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver/timestamp_first_packet: False
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_laserscan/resolution: 0.007
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_laserscan/ring: -1
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_transform/calibration: /home/administrat...
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_transform/fixed_frame: 
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_transform/max_range: 130.0
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_transform/min_range: 0.4
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_transform/model: VLP16
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_transform/organize_cloud: False
 * /velodyne_nodelet_manager_transform/target_frame: 

NODES
  /
    velodyne_nodelet_manager (nodelet/nodelet)
    velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver (nodelet/nodelet)
    velodyne_nodelet_manager_laserscan (nodelet/nodelet)
    velodyne_nodelet_manager_transform (nodelet/nodelet)

ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311
process[velodyne_nodelet_manager-1]: started with pid [28118]
process[velodyne_nodelet_manager_driver-2]: started with pid [28119]
process[velodyne_nodelet_manager_transform-3]: started with pid [28120]
process[velodyne_nodelet_manager_laserscan-4]: started with pid [28122]
[ INFO] [1659520069.081886984]: Initializing nodelet with 8 worker threads.
[ INFO] [1659520069.131315225]: Velodyne VLP-16 rotating at 600 RPM
[ INFO] [1659520069.132286525]: publishing 76 packets per scan
[ INFO] [1659520069.138060263]: Cut at specific angle feature deactivated.
[ INFO] [1659520069.148173001]: Reconfigure Request
[ INFO] [1659520069.150461908]: expected frequency: 9.921 (Hz)
[ INFO] [1659520069.154924495]: Opening UDP socket: port 2368
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