Controlling irobot create remotely using Dashboard
I have sucessfully controlled my irobot create using the dashboard locally but am having troubles controlling it from another computer over the network. Please tell me what I am doing wrong:
I have the firewall opened on ports 50000 and 50001 on both machines. I have disabled MRS security on both machines.
on the machine connected to the create, I launch the dsshost and start up the irobot.Drive.manifest.xml service from the control panel.
on the remote machine I launch a local dsshost service. I then start up the simple dashboard service and the dashboard pops up. On the dashboard I enter the ip address of my machine connected to the create with port 50000. I hit connect and "irobot/drive/drive" shows up as an option. I double click it but nothing happens. The motor still says off and I cant control the bot.
on the machine connected to the create I am getting error messages in the output that say "Multiple pending commands are not allowed."
any ideas?
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vandrem] at [2008-3-1]
Hello vandrem.
Does the create respond when you load the dashboard locally? The message you mention "Multiple pending commands are not allowed." happens when the Create is not responding. I would suggest the following.
1. Load the dashboard locally and attempt to control the Create. Does this work?
2. Stop the service, power cycle the iRobot Create, then start your remote scenario again.
3. open a browser on the machine controlling the create and navigate to http://localhost:50000/console/output. Check for errors
Let me know what you find out.
David
Ok... I have have tested as you have asked:
1. Using the dashboard locally to control the create functions properly and I can drive the robot around.
3. Right before "Multiple pending commands are not allowed" I get the following error (in yellow)
| Invalid Response Packet 52 bytes. | Category | StdOut | | Level | Info | | Time | 2007-05-30T20:50:25.34375-04:00 | | Subject | Invalid Response Packet 52 bytes. | | Source | http://bmist_umpc1:50000/irobot | | CodeSite | Int32 AnalyzeBuffer(Byte[], Int32, Int32, System.DateTime, Microsoft.Robotics.Services.IRobot.Roomba.ExecuteIRobotCommand)() at line:0, file | |
Thanks for you help with this. I do not know what I am doing wrong.
This is a little off topic but it relates to controlling the Roomba from Tutorial4
When I configure the Com port (running it for the first time) I get the following error:
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
XML document must have a top level element. Error processing resource 'res://ieframe.dll/http_400.htm'.
Can anyone point me in the direction to help figure this out?
