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Add a little bit of documentation

Open atar-axis opened this issue 5 years ago • 5 comments
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Hey There! Thank you for publishing this project! Would you mind adding some documentstion in how to use it? That would be great for ROS beginners like me :)

atar-axis avatar Jul 03 '20 18:07 atar-axis

Just roslaunch node_alive server.launch and there should be some diagnostics published. If a node dies, you'll see it in the diagnostics.

If you want to ignore some nodes, add them to the parameter 'neglect_nodes.yaml`.

@Rayman @reinzor anything to add (besides a README) :smile: ?

LoyVanBeek avatar Jul 06 '20 09:07 LoyVanBeek

Feel free to add a README that describes the working principle and all parameters.

reinzor avatar Jul 06 '20 10:07 reinzor

Note that rosmon also publishes diagnostics based on the nodes that are alive. Not sure which implementation is better, just mentioning an alternative for those who didn't know.

Timple avatar Jul 06 '20 13:07 Timple

If I read it correctly, rosmon is a replacement for roslaunch that does some additional monitoring. node_alive does only monitoring.

Rayman avatar Jul 07 '20 08:07 Rayman

@Timple Thanks for mentioning that! We already use rosmon so your comment has saved me a lot of work.

CallumJHays avatar Jun 01 '21 03:06 CallumJHays