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Package Summary

This package allows to publish a VNC stream to a specified image topic.

• Author: Stefan Diewald
• License: BSD
• Repository: vmi-ros-pkg
• Source: svn https://svn.vmi.ei.tum.de/vmi-ros-pkg/trunk/vmi_experimental/vnc_image_client

Nodes

vnc_image_client.py

Allows to publish a VNC stream to a specified image topic. If the VNC server has a password set, the password can either be passed as parameter or entered during node start-up.

Published Topics

~<image_topic> (sensor_msgs/Image)

• The images from the VNC stream

Parameters

~host (string, default: localhost)

• VNC server host

~port (integer, default: 5901)

• VNC server port

~password (string, default: "")

• Password for the VNC server. If the VNC server has a password and this parameter is not set, the password is requested during node start-up.

~image_topic (string, default: "vnc_image")

• The name of the image topic on which the VNC stream will be published

~publish_rate (integer, default: 15)

• Maxmimum frame rate for the image topic

Usage

rosrun vnc_image_client vnc_image_client.py \
     _host:=<vnc_host> _port:=<vnc_port> _password:=<your_secret> \
     _image_topic:=<image_output_topic> _publish_rate:=<image_publish_rate>

An example launch file is provieded in the launch folder.