Comments on: RoombaComm

By: Akos Maroy

Akos Maroy — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:21:49 +0000

does this thing work on the Roomba 7xx series?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:24:02 +0000

Hi Tod,

I am running RoombaComm on a Mac, attempting to drive a Roomba 560 with a RooTooth dongle.

Whenever I send it the “start”, “full”, “control”, etc. commands nothing happens. It seems like it is connected to the RooTooth, however, because any other command (like “forward”, “spin left”) causes it to begin spot cleaning. Sending “stop” will stop it from cleaning, but sending “stop” a second time will make it start cleaning again. I need to be able to drive the Roomba, but right now all I can do is start and stop spot cleaning, no matter what command I send. Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks for your time,
Lauren

By: fede

fede — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:19:55 +0000

Hello, Your project is very interesting, but I did not understand what is the use of the java libraries Bluecove. Can you tell me, please?

By: MM

MM — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:42:14 +0000

i am getting this error:

Stable Library
=========================================
Native lib Version = RXTX-2.2pre2
Java lib Version = RXTX-2.1-7
WARNING: RXTX Version mismatch
Jar version = RXTX-2.1-7
native lib Version = RXTX-2.2pre2

and “java -version” give me:
1.6.0_24

i am running win7 x64,
i have replaced the rxtx for win64 in the Processing folder, but now i get that error.

what should i do ?
thanks

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:14:04 +0000

I don’t really know much about the insides of RoombaComm, but under Packaging there is no windows version. When I am on my Mac, there is a program file, but I can’t connect my Roomba to my Mac because I don’t know how to set it up with Snow Leopard. There is not any Windows version of RoombaCommTest. Can you please make one?

By: todbot

todbot — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:11:21 +0000

Hi Sjimi, It should be compatible. The current maintainers of RoombaComm modified it explicitly to do this.

By: Sjimi

Sjimi — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:35:43 +0000

Is the RoombaComm compatible with the iRobot Roomba® 530? Just because we are working a thesis around swarm robotics and have these at our disposal.

By: Nimit

Nimit — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:11:54 +0000

I got your Book from Amazon, Book is great detail but It will need to update becuase Roomba came out more Newer model. I have Model 530 and at friest I cannot find the 8 Din connector after searching around many website until I found in forum on how to get the connector to be ready for the project.

By: Susan Riedel

Susan Riedel — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:50:00 +0000

We are not able to get the batch file roombacommtest to run on Windows 7 64-bit (nor can we run any other java-based roomba applications, such as SimpleTest) — can anyone help? By the way, we are able to run all RoombaComm examples on Vista 32-bit platforms.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:27:11 +0000

Thanks. Where can I download a copy of it where I download it and double click it and use it? (Mac osx)

I don’t know anything about Java. (Besides it being a Coffee)