You can also use rospy&#39;s ServiceProxy without creating a node.<br><br><a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/rospy/Overview/Services">http://www.ros.org/wiki/rospy/Overview/Services</a><br><br> - Ken<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Tully Foote <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:tfoote@willowgarage.com">tfoote@willowgarage.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

Hi, <br><br>You&#39;ll find these methods do not require you to start a node before using them.  <a href="http://www.ros.org/doc/api/roscpp/html/namespaceros_1_1service.html" target="_blank">http://www.ros.org/doc/api/roscpp/html/namespaceros_1_1service.html</a><br>



<br>Tully<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:26 AM, trinighost <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:trinighost@gmail.com" target="_blank">trinighost@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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<br>
Has anyone come across documentation or examples which validate this<br>
statement?<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Technical%20Overview#line-130" target="_blank">http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Technical%20Overview#line-130</a> &quot;in fact, a<br>
service client does not have to be a ROS node&quot;<br>
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View this message in context: <a href="http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/examples-of-non-ROS-service-clients-tp1636253p1636253.html" target="_blank">http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/examples-of-non-ROS-service-clients-tp1636253p1636253.html</a><br>




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