Robotino 3, switching to Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

[Nils]

Hi, we have two Robotino 3 robots,
and we are trying to setup a more recent Linux (and ROS) on them.
Up to now we have worked with the image for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic (image version 4.x)

I want to setup our Robotino 3 for LTS Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish),
and i am not sure about the steps:

1. step: get a larger SSD (done)
2. step: install Ubuntu 22.04 (done)

Unclear , i need help here:
3. step: get the robotino API somehow
4. step: install ROS-2
5. step: get ROS-2 robotino packages

regards
Nils

[verbeek]

The size of the SSD should be fine. 64GB is more than enough. Why not installing 24.04? I made a ROS2 robotino package but did not release it yet. But I could send you the sources if you are interested.

[Elena]

Hi Verbeek,

I would like to know when the ROS2 package that you mentioned will be officially available. I am currently working on my thesis using Robotino 4, and incorporating ROS2 would be incredibly beneficial for my project.

If there is any chance to access the packages before it is official release, I would really appreciate it.

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Elena

[MechManDan]

Good day verbeek could you send me the files and instructions on how to get 24.04 to install on the robotino I seem to have issues getting the base os on.

[JensVkb]

verbeek Sorry to reopen a somewhat old thread, but I'm also interested in the instructions.

Especially on how to deal with the robotino-daemons package, as this seems to have some hardcoded dependencies which are maximally available to Ubuntu 20.04.
However, you say above we should be able to install Ubuntu 24.04 and still control the hardware (through ROS2).

Many thanks in advance!

[JensVkb]

verbeek, would really appreciate some pointers Without installing the robotino-daemons, seems I always get the "Connection refused" error by the COM object.
So I'm assuming they are necessary to control the hardware... but that robotino-daemons package has hardcoded dependencies not available in Ubuntu 24.04...