Connect Unity with different ROS2 versions (galactic)

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Hi all,

using the ROS2 connection I found an inconsistants in the ROS2 versions that can be used:

So the questions is, how to choose the ROS2 version and get the ros_tcp_endpoint running (for the first step it would be enough for me to get it running with galactic)?
Why does the Nav2 example run with galactic when the ros_tcp_endpoint doesn’t (I tried)?

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Hi, Ros TCP Endpoint definitely works with Galactic. What results are you getting when you try it?

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I get no connection between my native ROS2 system and the endpoint. E.g. ros2 topic list didn’t show my published Unity topic, but replacing galactic with foxy it works instantly.

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Hi!

Are you running the ROS-TCP-Endpoint in a Docker container? If so you should probably run the container with network mode host and make sure that the network interface definition and DDS domain are correctly set for the container. Otherwise the messages published by the endpoint are only published into the docker network and only other containers can access them.

I use a docker-compose file to set the network mode to host and the environment variable CYCLONE_DDS_URI with the whole configuration XML. For some reason I can’t paste the whole compose entry as the forum doesn’t allow me to save the post after pasting the compose file.

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Thanks @antsa123 . Yes I run it in a docker container. For me it was enough to set the network mode to host so I just needed to add that in the docker run line:
docker run –network=“host” -it --rm -p 10000:10000 foxy /bin/bash

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