On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:57 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I have an issue I raised on ROS Answers where a suggestion I received was to bring it to this forum: I'm not sure why this suggestion was given. The support guidelines are here: http://ros.org/wiki/Support Please continue using ROS Answers or file a ticket with an appropriate bug report. - Ken > > I have a visualiser running on a laptop via a wifi connection subscribing to GPS messages. When the wifi is dropped the rospy gps publisher hangs (preventing vehicle control through other subscribers). When the wifi is re-established the publisher continues where it left off. > > I have duplicated my issue with the talker listener tutorials and it is only a rospy issue. e.g. start both roscpp and rospy talkers (publishing to the same chatter topic), and on a wirelessly connected pc start a listener (from memory it doesn't matter which of the rospy or roscpp ones), drop the wifi connection, and later (perhaps 1 minute) the rospy publisher hangs, but the roscpp continues OK.  I am less clear on the behaviour when reconnecting - it seems to depend on how long the connection is lost for. > > Hope this is not wasting people's time. > > -John. > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users