Slamtec repo updated - please update your repo and rosdep

[brianabouchard]

Hello,

I've been working with the slamtec RPLidar A1M8 with ROS 2 Humble. I'm getting similar errors to those described in this thread when using RVIZ2. The only way to resolve it without modifying source code seems to be significantly reducing the framerate in RVIZ.

It would appear the original rplidar_ros repository (ros2 branch) has integrated the suggested fixes from the forum above as well as updated to use their SDK 2.0.0, which adds an additional scan frequency parameter.

Since your repository is the one associated with the rosdep build of the rplidar_ros package, would you mind updating your repo to reflect these new changes and then re-building for rosdep? I know I can build the slamtec repo from source, but I'm hoping to use this with my students, and it would be great just to be able to have them do the rosdep install of dependencies rather than building this package in their workspace.

Thanks! And let me know if I can be of any help in this process.
Briana