iOS port of roslibjs?

[Christopher Clark]

I'm looking for an open source project to contribute to using my iOS skills, and I'm wondering if an iOS port of roslibjs would be valuable - I think being able to directly control ROS devices using mobile device via websockets and perhaps later with BLE could open up interesting possibilities.

[Chad Jenkins]

Hi Christopher,

I would defer to the active leaders of the RWT project regarding your question.  And, I have not written anything natively in ROS since Fuerte.

That said, two quick thoughts come to mind.  First, maybe a websocket transport is not really necessary such that a port of roslib itself might be better.  Second and closer to my own thinking, it would be awesome to see an iOS port of roslibjs.  One benefit of speaking the rosbridge protocol (as opposed to building in the ROS framework) is less sensitivity to changes in the ROS ecosystem, and thus less effort for code maintenance. 

-Chad

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 8:16 AM Christopher Clark <ch...@qalang.com> wrote:

I'm looking for an open source project to contribute to using my iOS skills, and I'm wondering if an iOS port of roslibjs would be valuable - I think being able to directly control ROS devices using mobile device via websockets and perhaps later with BLE could open up interesting possibilities.

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[Jihoon Lee]

Hi Christopher,

I would suggest to create an issue in github roslibjs repo where you may find the active maintainers.

Jihoon

2020. 11. 11. 오전 2:08, Chad Jenkins <ode...@gmail.com> 작성:

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[Christopher Clark]

Chad, thanks for your ideas.

Jihoon, I've opened an issue on the repo, thanks for the suggestion.