Re: [Playerstage-users] Re: [Playerstage-users]: sick lms200 timeout

[amw@Cs.Nott.AC.UK]

Thanks again for your reply. Unfortunately I still can't get it to work.

The lights might give a clue about what is wrong. I have changed those two 
files back to what they were originally and re-installed. Trying to 
subscribe to the laser in playerv, first the red and orange ones light, 
then about twelve seconds in playerv reports:

playerc error   : timed out waiting for server reply to request
playerc error   : failed to get response
playerv : error in dev_laser.c
  libplayerc error: failed to get response

another 12 seconds and I get another:
playerc error   : timed out waiting for server reply to request
playerv : error in dev_laser.c
  libplayerc error: timed out waiting for server reply to request

then it goes to green, waits ages and I then get playerc warning : warning 
: unexpected message type [4] and the light goes out altogether

player just reports:

warning : timeout
warning : timeout
warning : timeout
warning : timeout
warning : timeout
warning : timeout

Running my own client gives:

playerc error   : timed out waiting for server reply to request
playerc error   : failed to get response
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'PlayerCc::PlayerError'
Aborted

The light sequence gets to green a while after the abort, then back to red 
then briefly to green and just goes out


Changing REQUEST_TIMEOUT to 60.0 in client.c , re-making and re-installing 
gives the same sequence of errors.

I can't understand why it worked some of the time in Player 2.0.0 and 
doesn't work at all in Player 2.0.1. Surely they are not so radically 
different?

Amanda

> About the sick lights: it should light the red and orange leds while it 
> is getting ready. These turn off and the green one is lit when the laser 
> is ready. When there's communication over the serial to change the speed 
> it lights just the red led for a second, and then back to green.
> 
> So the sequence is
> 
> red+orange -- during about 30 seconds
> green      -- just a moment or may be even omitted
> red        -- 1 or 2 seconds
> green      -- the end.
> 
> the green light should remain on while there's some connection to the 
> sick.
> 
> 


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