hero-display

Display sink for the hero display that presents information to the user.

Build Setup

# install dependencies
npm install

# Compiles and hot-reloads for development
npm run electron:serve

# Compiles and minifies for production
npm run electron:build

# Run your unit tests
NO_FULLSCREEN=1 npm run test:unit

# Lints and fixes files
npm run lint

Test hero display

Dependencies

sudo apt-get install ros-$ROS_DISTRO-rosbridge-server ros-$ROS_DISTRO-rostopic

Run

# Launch rosbridge server
roslaunch rosbridge_server rosbridge_websocket.launch

# Launch example string publisher
rostopic pub /text_to_speech/output std_msgs/String -- "I am hero, an awesome robot!"

# Run hero-display executable
NO_FULLSCREEN=1 ./dist_electron/hero-display.AppImage

To connect to a different rosbridge webserver, add the desired hostname or ip-address as final argument.