Setting up Manual Mode

Gist from swarmathon guide book

1. SSH into the rover. Consult the "Connecting to Rover" Wiki
2. Edit the .bashrc with an editor of your choice. command: "vim /home/swarmie/.bashrc"
3. Go the the last 11 lines of the code. "page down button"
4. Put a # in front of the line to comment out in bash
5. Comment out the last 11 lines of the code with pound tags.

Running code in manual mode

In manual mode, robot does not run ROS on boot.

1. SSH into the rover.
2. Change directory to rover_workspace. command "cd /home/swarmie/rover_workspace/"
3. Run roscore. command "nohup roscore &"
4. Open a second terminal and login to the rover. Or use screen or tmux.
5. Change directory to misc. command "cd /home/swarmie/misc/"
6. Run rover_onboard_node_launch.sh. command "./rover_onboard_node_launch.sh localhost"
7. Flip the motor controller switch to the up position if it is not already on.