TCP/IP Socket Robot to PC

[terryc]

Eh funny, just replied to someone else about this:

Controlling UR3 through Computer

It really depends on the OS you’re going to be talking to. Linux is fine–can’t vouce for mac. Windows takes some extra steps. Let’s say I want to run an XMLRPC server on my windows laptop (192.168.0.10, port eg 40404) and I want the robot to connect and call a function. On the robot we’d have something like: client = rpc_factory("xmlrpc", "http://192.168.0.10:40404") a = client.myFunction() Windows firewall will usually reject the incoming http request and so now I’d have to go into the fire…