Installing the joy node on Mac OSX

asked 2013-05-15 02:18:03 -0500

Luc
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updated 2013-05-16 16:18:20 -0500

William

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I installed ROS groovy on my Mac OS 10.8.3 following the MacPorts tutorial. I copied the joy package from the source.

$ rospack find joy
$ /opt/ros/groovy/share/ros/joy

Eventually, I get:

$ rosdep install joy
$ ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved
to system dependencies:
joy: No definition of [joystick] for OS [osx]

Does it mean that currently it is not possible to install the joy package on Mac? If it is possible, I would be glad to learn which installation steps I missed.

Best regards, Luc.

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answered 2013-05-20 00:48:00 -0500

Hansg91
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I am using osx_joystick for this at the moment. It is not entirely the same, but it shares many similarities. It at least gets the job done ;)

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answered 2013-05-17 12:34:00 -0500

SL Remy
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If you'd like to try code that was last used over a year ago:

STJoy_node.rosinstall

It was my go at a cross platform joystick package based on the SDL (only finished the OSX portion because I ran out of time). Hadn't shared it before since I planned to rewrite it based on a standard package.. but still haven't gotten around to it, and Snow Leopard has long been eclipsed by Mountain Lion.

It uses the cross platform libST Joystick Implementation (there should be a package for this somewhere...)

Hope it helps someone (even if it's to show them how not to go about it!)

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I also use SDL for portable joystick reading in my segwayrmp demo app: https://github.com/segwayrmp/libsegwayrmp/blob/master/src/gui/segwayrmp_gui.cc If you want another reference of how to use SDL for that.