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Add to doc, sometimes custom port must be blank

Open RyanPaulMcKenna opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

In my experience getting the driver working I followed all the instructions including leave the custom port number untouched. However when I attempting to start communication between ROS on my PC and the UR5 robot the connection always failed.

I attempted to use (for the custom port) the port number that ROS was starting local host on, on my PC that I assume acts as the client interface to issue requests to the UR5 however this resulted in a more serious warning/exception that also immediately ended the communication from the UR5 side.

Then I was certain that the custom port number was the problem, removing the custom port completely. Setting it to blank. Immediately solved the problem and the driver worked perfectly. I am not able to run the move_python example that commands the robot to perform a manoeuvrer.

This solution may not work in all cases but I thought that it should be in the docs since I found nothing about this on any of the forums or the docs. It should help others get up and running more easily in the future.

RyanPaulMcKenna avatar Nov 07 '23 13:11 RyanPaulMcKenna

Hi @RyanPaulMcKenna Thanks for the info. Though it sounds more like a bug that should be fixed. I would appreciate if you wrote a detail step by step of how to reproduce it, so we can get it fixed.

urrsk avatar Jun 17 '24 07:06 urrsk