Actions are just a few topics working together, so if topics work,
actions really should to. Did you actually manage to send data in both
directions using topics before setting ROS_IP? You might not have had
any error message, but that doesn't necessarily mean that data was
flowing.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Daniel Stonier <d.stonier@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 November 2010 19:20, Dejan Pangercic <dejan.pangercic@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Did u try setting ROS_IP? d.
>>
>
> Oh, brilliant, thanks. A little strange that the same setup doesn't
> work across topics, services and action clients though.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
>> On Nov 12, 2010 4:34 PM, "Daniel Stonier" <d.stonier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having trouble getting simple action clients to work across a
>> remote connection.
>>
>> I've got roscore running on an embedded board, everything fine and
>> locally contactable there. However, over the LAN (exporting
>> ROS_MASTER_URI appropriately) I can publish and subscribe to topics,
>> call services, but I can't do the following with a simple action
>> client:
>>
>>
>>        typedef
>> actionlib::SimpleActionClient<manipulation_comms::MoveArmAction>
>> ActionClient;
>>        ActionClient action_client("/move_arm");
>>
>>        if ( !action_client.waitForServer( ros::Duration(1.5)) ) {
>>                ROS_WARN_STREAM("Could not connect to the move_arm action
>> server.");
>>        } else {
>>                ROS_INFO_STREAM("Connected to the move_arm action server.");
>>        }
>>
>> Is this expected?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Daniel Stonier
>>
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