android_core tutorials: no communication to roscore

asked 2013-03-29 02:53:35 -0500

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updated 2014-01-28 17:15:58 -0500

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I successfully installed and builder android_core. I encountered some problems but could fix them. I installed the android_tutorial_camera and android_tutorial_pubsub on the android device. Allthough both apps can run, there is no connection to the computer where the roscore runs. rosnode/rostopic list doesn't show any marks of the android device.

I tried it with 2 computers and 2 android devices with all possible combinations:

Laptop Ubuntu 10.04 with ROS electric
Desktop Ubuntu 11.10 with ROS fuerte
Samsung galaxy ace with android 2.3.3
Samsung galaxy tab 2 with android 4.0.4

None of the following URI's worked:

http: //< my_IP >:11311
http: //localhost:11311
http: //noe-laptop:11311

For the pubsub tutorial I also adapted the network adapter (link in comment).

Please help me! Thank you, Noë

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Links: android_core: http://ros.org/wiki/android_core network adapter pubsub: http://answers.ros.org/question/45314/wrong-network-adapter-with-inetaddressfactorynewnonloopback/

noe_vb ( 2013-03-29 02:54:42 -0500 )edit

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answered 2013-03-29 03:30:23 -0500

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updated 2013-03-29 09:08:00 -0500

Just wanted to make sure that (1) your Android device can communicate roscore machines (eg. by ping, http etc)? (2) Is my_IP your roscore machine not your Android right? (3) No space b/w "http" and "//" ok?

Update) For (1), if 2 computers can communicate over IP, there's no way that a node on a computer connects to roscore that's running on another machine.

In general, it's worthwhile to check NetworkSetup, although some of the checkups there might not work for Android.

I'm not 100% sure if pinging in LAN succeeds in any situation, but at least http should go through. Easiest (not the most optimal though) way to check connection b/w 2 machines if roscore runs on Ubuntu might be running http server on it and access from Android. Can be done as:

On_Ubuntu$ sudo apt-get install apache2

Then on Android, open http://IP_Ubuntu.

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(1): no I do not manage to make them communicate (2) my_IP is from my laptop on which I run the roscore (3) I put the space there because I'm not allowed to post links already since I'm a new user of this website. Thanks already !

noe_vb ( 2013-03-29 03:41:17 -0500 )edit

Update for (1): The master is my Linux machine and the android app generates its own roscore. I made a web server with apache2 but, although both computer and tablet are connected to the same wifi AND with a USB cable, I cannot connect to the web server from my tablet.

noe_vb ( 2013-03-30 05:15:50 -0500 )edit

Do I have to setup a separate network or so? Thank you!

noe_vb ( 2013-03-30 05:19:17 -0500 )edit

Ok your issue is most likely in network, not in ROS. Make sure Android can establish IP connection to your Ubuntu. Btw running roscoreon both ends shouldn't be a problem.

130s ( 2013-03-30 08:17:46 -0500 )edit

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