ROS Phidgets Installation

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References

Indigo Installation

Nothing was done. It was possible to reuse the Jade installation. Check that the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH points to ~/ros_packages. See step 3.2 and 3.4. Also check that ros-indigo-audio-common is installed. See step 3.3. 

 export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH:/home/eepp/ros_packages

Jade Installation

June 2015 for NUC on Hood.

From ROS Site

ROS Install instructions

Install Steps

  • Step 3.2 
 cd ~/ros-packages
 bzr branch lp:phidgets-ros-pkg
 mv phidgets-ros-pkg/ phidgets
  • Step 3.3. DON'T DO THIS. The following timed out and work-arounds did not work (See What Did'nt Work below). Eventually, audio-common was available simplifying install. 
 sudo svn co https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/sound_drivers/trunk/sound_play
  • This is what worked easily. 
 sudo aptitude search audio-common
 sudo apt-get install ros-jade-audio-common
  • Step 3.4.

The ROS_PACKAGE_PATH is reset by some scripts, for example, " source /home/eepp/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash ". 

 export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH:/home/eepp/ros_packages
  • Step 3.5. Got the following error about not finding opencv2. The fix is to to replace opencv2 with cv_bridge in manifest.xml. See item 10 in Indigo Migration. This help link came from Adding opencv to Indigo. 
 rosmake --pre-clean phidgets
     [rospack] Error: package 'phidgets' depends on non-existent package 'opencv2' and rosdep claims that it is not a system dependency. Check the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH or try calling 'rosdep update'
 
 cd ~/ros_packages/phidgets$ 
 cp manifest.xml manifest.xml.org
 emacs manifest.xml&
 diff manifest.xml.org manifest.xml
     18c18
     <   <depend package="opencv2" />
     ---
     >   <depend package="cv_bridge" />
  • The following did not build because it could not find move_base_msgs.pc in /opt/ros/jade/lib/pkgconfig. We need the move_base_msgs package. 
 sudo apt-get install ros-jade-navigation
  • Now it built. 
 rosmake --pre-clean phidgets
  • Step 3.6. And test 
 rosrun phidgets manager
     |-   # -|-              Type              -|- Serial No. -|-  Version -|
     |-------|----------------------------------|--------------|------------|
     |-   0 -|-            PhidgetMotorControl -|-     147489 -|-      102 -|
     |-------|----------------------------------|--------------|------------|
     |-   1 -|-            PhidgetInterfaceKit -|-      69535 -|-      825 -|
     |-------|----------------------------------|--------------|------------|

Copy

Copied phidgets to the workspace to make it so the following export is not needed "export ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=$ROS_PACKAGE_PATH:/home/eepp/ros_package". 

 cp -r ~/ros_packages/phidgets/ ~/catkin_ws_indigo/src

Motor test

Phidgets Motor Controller Test

What Didn't Work

On Hood

  • following timed out 
 sudo svn co https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/sound_drivers/trunk/sound_play
  • So I tried the following from the /opt/ros/jade/share/ directory because the search found audio-common in indigo 
 sudo aptitude search audio-common
 sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-audio-common
 sudo cp -r ../../indigo/share/sound_play/ .
 sudo cp -r ../../indigo/share/sound_play/audio* .
  • This will fail later because sound-play.pc is not ending up in the following directory. A standard apt-get install is required. The one for jade's audio-common was not found unti later. 
         /opt/ros/jade/lib/pkgconfig


  • "rosmake" or "sudo rosmake" for phidgets didn't work so I tried the following (makebe I should try it as root) 
 chown -R eepp:eepp phidgets
 rosmake --pre-clean phidgets

Get the following error 

 [rospack] Error: package 'phidgets' depends on non-existent package 'opencv2' and rosdep claims that it is not a system dependency. Check the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH or try calling 'rosdep update'

Based on this help link I tried 

 eepp@clyde:~/ros_packages$ rosdep install phidgets
   ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved
   to system dependencies:
   phidgets: Missing resource opencv2
     ROS path [0]=/opt/ros/jade/share/ros
     ROS path [1]=/opt/ros/jade/share
     ROS path [2]=/opt/ros/jade/stacks
     ROS path [3]=/home/eepp/ros_packages
 
 eepp@clyde:~$ mkdir opencv
 eepp@clyde:~$ cd opencv
 eepp@clyde:~/opencv$ git clone https://github.com/jayrambhia/Install-OpenCV.git
 
 eepp@clyde:~/opencv$ cd Install-OpenCV/Ubuntu/
 eepp@clyde:~/opencv/Install-OpenCV/Ubuntu$ source opencv_latest.sh

it asked for sudo passwds.

I still couldn't build.

From FitPC Install

I did a few things following this path and then moved to above procedure. The README files from below and above are the same. 

 cd /opt/ros/jade/share/
 sudo tar xzvf ~/Downloads/phidgets-ros-pkg-1.50.tar.gz 
 sudo mv phidgets/ phidgets_1
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