Any documentation on ROS specific feature, e.g widgets?

[pitosalas]

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[pitosalas]

Other than the two screenshots in the readme, is there any documentation for the capabilities of this wonderful package?

[wolfv]

Hi,

indeed documentation is currently quite lacking. Best way is to look at the notebooks and read the source code (for the moment).

We'll need to work on that!

[pitosalas]

Are the examples in the repo representative of all widgets/features, or are there other samples?

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[wolfv]

there are three classical widget functions: jr.subscribe, jr.publish and jr.bag_player and jr.live_plot

and then there is the ros3d suite with all the widgets you find in this file (mirroring roswebtools.js capabilities):

https://github.com/RoboStack/jupyter-ros/blob/master/jupyros/ros3d.py

The usage across widgets is pretty much always the same, so you can extrapolate from the examples (add objects to a view model).

However, some important fixes are coming in with #17, so just to let you know :)

[pitosalas]

Thanks... There are multiple things called sidecar. How do I install it so that I can run the 3d widgets? Also the comment in the laser notebook says "Make sure that the websocket rosbridge is running on your host computer, and that you publish a laser scan on the /scan topic." I am not sure what that means. What if I have a similated gazebo robot publishing on /scan, won't that be the same? Thanks!