Welcome to fkie_master_discovery’s documentation!

A Node to discovery the running ROS Masters in local network. The discovering is done by send a echo heartbeat messages to a defined multicast group.

Additionally the current state of the ROS Master and local ROS Nodes will be offered using XML-RPC server created in fkie_master_discovery.master_monitor-module. To reduce the count of accesses the whole ROS Master state is described by fkie_master_discovery.master_info.MasterInfo.

abb: fkie_master_discovery node structure

Alternatively the fkie_master_discovery.zeroconf can be used to detect ROS Masters using the avahi-zeroconf deamon.

Contents:

• Common Methods — Module
• Filter Interface — Module
• Interface Finder — Module
• Master Discovery — Module
• Master Monitor — Module
• Master Info — Module
• udp — Module
• zeroconf — Module

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page