Getting Started

Docker

This section assumes you have installed docker. In a terminal run:

docker run -it -e DISPLAY=host.docker.internal --net=host mdsdev0/buffbox:x86_64-dev

If you have our code you can also use the spinup alias:

spinup mdsdev0/buffbox:x86_64-dev

Either of these commands should result in an interactive terminal in the container. Now you should be able to start our systems:

run live.yaml

In another terminal check the container ID and connect to it:

docker container list
docker exec -it <container_ID> bash

Now we can use some of these commands to checkout the system:

rostopic list # will list all rostopics, (all systems should have these)
rostopic hz <topic> # will print the frequency of the topic
rostopic echo <topic> # will print all messages on a topic
rosrun rqt_graph rqt_graph # will open a graph of all the ros nodes and topics
rosrun rqt_image_view rqt_image_view # will open a view that can display images from a topic