https://github.com/ubuntuevangelist/webui

Robot Control Web Interface
https://github.com/ubuntuevangelist/webui

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Robot Control Web Interface

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ubuntuevangelist/webui
• Owner: UbuntuEvangelist
• Created: 2017-12-06T10:15:57.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-11T15:56:55.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-12T00:37:34.106Z (2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 4.81 MB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 13
• Open Issues: 29
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Web UI

WebUI is the Javascript application designed to control robots over the ROS. It uses websockets to connect to ROS.

## Requirements

## Running

### JS Part

##### Production

Running in stable enviroments, will take a while to load for first time as files are beeing minimized:

`webpack --optimize-minimize & node backend/entry.js -p 8000 -c {ROBOTS_CONFIGS_DIR} -r {ROBOT_NAME}`

##### Development

Monitors for file changes and if detected repacks the files and restarts the webserver

`webpack -w -dev & nodemon backend/entry.js -p 8000 -c {ROBOTS_CONFIGS_DIR} -r {ROBOT_NAME}`

### ROS Part

`roslaunch webui webui.launch`

## Deveoper information

### Backend

NodeJS backend application: [source](backend/)

Ros Nodes: [source][nodes/]

### Fronend 

Javascript Client application: [source](client)

##### Framework and Main Libraries

The core libraries:

* Backbone

* MarionetteJS

* Bootstrap

* Jquery

* RequireJS

* Webpack

##### Main Files

* [application.js](main/application.js) - Main aplication file

* [ros.js](client/lib/ros.js) - ROS websocket objects (topics/services/params)

* [api.js](client/lib/api.js) - Higher level functions for communication with ROS

* [layout](client/modules/layout/) - Main Layout view and template for application header

* [layout.tpl](client/modules/puppeteering/views/templates/layout.tpl) - Current pupeteering page layout template

## Troubleshooting

Sometimes not all topics subscribed or beiiing publsihed after refresh. See the issue https://github.com/RobotWebTools/rosbridge_suite/issues/138

Need patch for rosbridge module. By default the path on Ubuntu:

`/opt/ros/indigo/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rosbridge_library/internal/publishers.py`

```

A quick hack to prevent the problem is commenting out topic unregistration in pulibhser.py

311# if not self._publishers[topic].has_clients():

312#           self._publishers[topic].unregister()

313#            del self._publishers[topic]

```