I am currently trying to install the RTDE python package to communicate with UR10e Cobot, but keep getting errors. [Capture] When I type in “pip install --user ur-rtde”, I get errors. I have attached a picture with the error message, as it is too big to fit into a post. I want to use RTDE to he…

It looks like this particular library requires cmake that is not installed. There is official RTDE library available on Real-Time Data Exchange (RTDE) Guide - 22229

Hi Sean Please ask these questions on the issue tracker related to ur_rtde . Regarding your specific question, there is currently an issue with pip installation of ur_rtde on Windows, until I fix this you can try to build it from source.

I need to get this working, I already tried it on different systems/OS like Raspberry Pi and Windows 10. I wasn’t able to build it from source https://sdurobotics.gitlab.io/ur_rtde/installation/installation.html#commandline-build as I didn’t manage to complete the cmake/boost part. ‘the source do…

I got it to install it in a Linux Subsystem for Windows, so it runs in a Ubuntu terminal, which is not really Windows, so here is what I did: Enabled WSL from the Control Panel and installed the Ubuntu 20 terminal from Microsoft Store (here’s a tutorial ). Install Python and update/upgrade some pac…

And how to set up vscode so it’s running/compiling using the linux subsystem? That’s my last step missing. Will try with a VM later as well.

Once you have installed the Ubuntu terminal and the extension on VCode, you’ll see a new option on the left bar, which is for connecting to the WSL. Then VCode will connect to it and re-open from the WSL directory. Afterwards, you can navigate and edit files located in the Linux subsystem. If you o…

Unfortunately it doesn’t find the ur-rtde package, altough it seems to be correctly installed [ur3] how did you set up rtde in the ur vm? [ur2]

Hello, We are using this library but there isn’t possibility to read I/O’s in python via rtde. Do you have any recommendation?

Problem using pip to install RTDE

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stefan.keller January 17, 2022, 12:41pm 4

Same Problem here, didn’t find the solution. Cmake is installed though.

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