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Originally Posted by SoftwareBug2.0
Since I mentioned that I was excited to try this out I thought I'd give an update. At our latest meeting one of our students tried the program out on Ubuntu 14.04 and here's what he found:
1) Our robot wouldn't connect.
2) Our switch panel wasn't recognized.
3) Gamepad inputs were mishandled.
We haven't taken the time to really dig into it, so it these might all be things that could be easily overcome but the out of the box experience was a bit underwhelming. I'll now elaborate a bit about the problems:
1) Maybe we had a network misconfiguration somewhere? I don't know; we've been able to download code to it from the computer we used. I guess I'll have an excuse to teach people how to use Wireshark.
2) We've never tried to do anything with our switch panel on Linux before so it might be a driver issue rather than a bug in the program. There are some diagnostics we can run. But since our switch panel is TI Launchpad-based and not doing anything unusual software-wise this seems like something that other users might run into as well.
3) We had some axes turned into only three values: 0%, 50% and 100%. We used a Logitech F310, (the most common one). When we talk directly to the kernel we get the proper values out so the issue is somewhere in userland. I'm confident that this could be either fixed or worked around. However, the fact that this wasn't working right makes me suspect that nobody had tried our OS/library version combo with a robot before.
Has anybody else tried the program out with a robot? If so, how did it go for you? And can you describe your setup?
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Networking...
The 2015 protocol relies on mDNS for finding the IP of the robot, however, it may not work neatly with every OS. I am working with that issue. For the moment, try to ping your robot and put the IP of the robot in the "custom address" field in the preferences dialog.
About the joysticks
Our team does not have your kind of joysticks, we only have Xbox 360 joysticks. The problem is that I have not made a mapping for your joystick, and the application will apply an Xbox 360 mapping to "un-mapped" joysticks.
I will see if I can get your joystick to test it, if so, expect an application update soon. For the moment, try to use an Xbox 360 controller or configure the keyboard/virtual joystick.
Thanks for your feedback!