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• Microphone - computer-microphone.jar

• Camera - computer-camera.jar

  • Docker service: stream_video

• Browser - computer-browser.jar

  • Docker service: webserver

  • the driver automatically launches a Chrome window that displays the page as rendered by the webserverservice. See the Tablets/PhonesPhone/Browsers page for more information.

• Speaker * - computer-speaker.jar

  • Docker service: stream_audio

  • can be used for generic audio playing, as well as text-to-speech with eSpeak

• Robot - computer-robot.jar

  • can be used for emulating Pepper/Nao robots

The drivers are run from the https://bitbucket.org/socialroboticshub/docker/src/master/sic-local /folder and have been provided as a JAR in the format computer-*. To run them, Java 8 or later is required to be installed on your machine. Launch one of the local devices by either double-clicking the drivers or using the BAT (Windows) or SH (Linux/Mac) file. With a locally running SIC framework you can always just press OK in the initial dialog box that appears.

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An example will be used to demonstrate how these drivers are used. Assume https://bitbucket.org/socialroboticshub/connectors/src/master/python/tts_example.py this example needs to be run.

1. start Docker with the required text_to_speech service

2. start computer-robot.jar, computer-speakers.jar

   • Important: If you are operating on a MacBook, kindly ensure you launch these drivers on a terminal.

   • the https://bitbucket.org/socialroboticshub/connectors/src/master/python/tts_example.py emulates Text-to-Speech on a robot; hence we need to use both a robot emulator and the speakers as actuators.

3. run https://bitbucket.org/socialroboticshub/connectors/src/master/python/tts_example.py the example

Limitations

The available drivers have been tested on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. macOS can also be used but has not been as extensively tested and compatibility and support for it are limited.

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