abb_egm_pyclient

Tested on RobotWare version:

• 6.08.01.

Setup

1. Clone this repo.

2. Install protoc from protobuf. There are prebuilt binaries available from GitHub if protoc is not available in your package manager. 3.Find egm.proto in either %LOCALAPPDATA%\ABB\RobotWare\RobotWare_6.XXXXX\utility\Template\EGM\egm.proto or on the robot.

3. Run protoc to generate protobuf classes for python. Substitute $SRC_DIR for the location of egm.proto

protoc --python_out=abb_egm_pyclient $SRC_DIR/egm.proto

4. Install this package in your environment of choice.

cd abb_egm_pyclient
pip install -e .

Usage

Run the EGM on your robot controller. Here are some instructions if needed.

And on your computer (and your python environment):

python -m abb_egm_pyclient.run --help