Phidgets Installation

Core Libraries

Get the core phidgets libraries from www.phidgets.com drivers.

Note: using Synaptic to get the phidgets drivers will not give you the correct version. Note: requires libusb-dev

• I got libphidget-2.1.8.20120503
• untar
• cd libphidget-2.1.8.20120503
• ./configure
• make
• sudo make install

Allow access to USB in user mode. Requires a restart.

• sudo cp udev/99-phidgets.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

sound_play

Sound play is required for ROS phidgets to build and install. See sound_play fix for more details.

As root or using sudo

• add the following to the end of /opt/ros/electric/ros/rosdep.yaml

python-pygame:
  ubuntu: python-pygame

• cd /opt/ros/electric/stacks/

• svn co https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/sound_drivers/tags/latest/sound_play/

In the following steps it complained about festival missing - but it is there. I wonder if the following steps are not necessary for ROS phidgets to install in the following section.

• cd sound_play
• With Synaptic get festival
• rosmake --rosdep-install sound_play

ROS Phidgets

Be sure to quit Synaptic. It will lock the repository so that the dependencies cannot be loaded below.

Download from launchpad.net.

• Downloaded file is : phidgets-ros-pkg-1.40.tar.gz

As root or sudo

• cd /opt/ros/electric/stacks
• mkdir phidgets
• cd phidgets
• untar in /opt/ros/electric/stacks/phidgets
• source /opt/ros/electric/setup.sh
• rosmake --rosdep-install phidgets