Re: [Playerstage-developers] [Playerstage-users] Sick lms 291 - unable to use sick lms 200 driver

[Jack O'Q. <jac...@gm...>]

2010/4/29 Víctor Costa <ko...@gm...>:
>
> Hi there everyone. Sorry for double mailing this, but there's been sometime
> that i don't send mails to the player lists and I forgot to which one I
> should be sending this. I've been having problems trying to connect to a
> sick lms 291 trhough player... I've tried using the sick lms 200 driver but
> I've had no  success. The driver hangs waiting for an ack signal from the
> laser after sending it to configuration mode and ultimately timeouts. Has
> anyone ever used this laser sensor with player before or has any idea on
> what the problem might be?

It works pretty well with that device for us. It does sometimes get
timeouts when first connecting on power-up. Almost always works OK
after that.

> The cfg file i've been using is the following:
>
> driver
> (
>   name "sicklms200"
>   provides [ "laser:0" ]
>   port "/dev/ttyUSB0"
>   resolution 50
>   range_res 10
>   serial_high_speed_mode 0
>   connect_rate [ 38400 ]
>   transfer_rate 38400
>   retry 5
>   alwayson 1
> )
>
> is there any changes needed on the original driver in order to use this?

Not that I know of.
-- 
 joq