Re: [Playerstage-users] warning : failed to reconnect

[Chad G. <ch...@mg...>]

> 4) Is there any easy way to check out the home made cable that connects
> gumstix to
> iCreate. player will not run if cable is not plugged in or iCreate turned
> off. Is that a good test?

If you have a working WiFi or ethernet connection on the gumstix, then
you can use socat (its available in the buildroot) to create a link
between a PC running player server and the roomba, through the
gumstix's serial port and custom cable.

Basically socat runs on the gumstix and the PC. On the pc side it
creates a virtual serial port that transports data sent to/from this
virtual serial port via TCP to the gumstix where it connects to the
real serial port attached to the create.

Depending on your overall goals maybe this setup would be better for
you anyway. It would let you run the player server and robotics primer
on your PC, which is trivially easy to get the latest version to
compile for (as opposed to the gumstix where everything is a
challenge). And it sounds like you're running the robotics primer
software on the PC anyway, so its not like you gain very much running
the player server on the gumstix.