raghuvirshirodkar/openroberta-connector

The multiplatform connector program for most robots supported by the Open Roberta Lab.

openroberta-connector

Supported robots

• EV3Lejos
• Arduino Uno
• Arduino Mega
• Arduino Nano
• BOB3
• ROB3RTA
• Bot'n'Roll
• mBot
• NAO
• Festo Bionics4Education (may require this driver on macOS)

Standalone program for connecting robot hardware to the Open Roberta lab using an usb or ssh connection.

Fast installation with maven

Clone the repository and compile

git clone git://github.com/OpenRoberta/openroberta-connector.git
cd openroberta-connector
mvn clean install

Run Open Roberta Connector

For running the Connector use Java.

java -jar target/OpenRobertaConnector-*.jar

Development notes

You can follow the test status on https://travis-ci.org/OpenRoberta/.

Development happens in the develop branch. Please sent PRs against that branch.

git clone git://github.com/OpenRoberta/openroberta-connector.git
cd openroberta-connector
git checkout -b develop origin/develop

To regenerate the esptool.exe when upgrading the esptool version download the wanted version and run this:

pip install pyinstaller
pyinstaller --onefile \
            --specpath build_tmp \
            --workpath build_tmp/build \
            --distpath build_tmp/dist \
            esptool.py

to generate the binary.

Installer creation

Automatically

TravisCI automatically generates installers for Linux, Windows and OSX when a tag is created. These are added to a GitHub Releases draft for the tag.

Manual

Linux:

• run mvn clean install in the project directory
• run release.sh linux in the installers directory
• add the version to the resulting file

Windows:

• download and install WiX Toolset
• download and install WDK 8
  • or run
    • curl 'http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/4/C/24CA7FB3-FF2E-4DB5-BA52-62A4399A4601/wdk/wdksetup.exe' --output wdksetup.exe
    • ./wdksetup.exe //features + //q //norestart //ceip off
• add a environment variable WIX=<wix-install-path>\bin
• run mvn clean install in the project directory
• run release.sh windows in the installers directory (e.g. in Git Bash)
• add the version to the resulting files

Mac:

• run mvn clean install in the project directory
• run release.sh osx in the installers directory
• add the version to the resulting file

Release

To release run mvn release:clean release:prepare on the develop branch. The maven release plugin will ask for some information regarding the version numbers and automatically create commits and a tag with the updated versions. Now, merge the used branch into master and remove the last (prepare for next development iteration) commit with git reset HEAD~1 --hard, as it is not needed on master. Finally, push master, develop and the tag (git push --tags).