Feature request Wifi transport for RP2040 W

[samuk]

Issue template

• Hardware description: rp2040 pico W
• Installation type: Platformio

Steps to reproduce the issue

I would like to use Wifi transport with a PicoW

Additional information

Is this a hard problem to solve? Or is it just that no one attempted it yet?

[pablogs9]

Hello @samuk, it should be easy to implement following the structure of any networked transport such as this one.

It is not in our roadmap, but contributions and PR are welcome.

[samuk]

Thanks, wouldn't I be using the existing https://github.com/micro-ROS/micro_ros_platformio/blob/main/platform_code/arduino/wifi/micro_ros_transport.cpp

[samuk]

So it seems the task would be to get Microros running under https://github.com/earlephilhower/arduino-pico

[brianlmerritt]

@samuk - I haven't had a chance to try it yet with Pico W, but I understand that the pull request platformio/platform-raspberrypi#36 @maxgerhardt has done all the heavy lifting to pull in arduino-pico. On your VSCode terminal, type pio pkg install -g -p https://github.com/maxgerhardt/platform-raspberrypi and that re-adds the platform-raspberrypi with all the earlephilhower goodness. Platformio haven't accepted the pull request due to licensing issues.

[samuk]

Thanks, unfortunately MicroROS doesn't run under Earlephilhower.. So that's the remaining task to get that running.

[brianlmerritt]

It runs under platform.io if you do the above command - I tried it

I just haven't had a chance to test Pico W with it with micro-ros

[samuk]

Yes I can install and run Earlephillhower and use it under platformio to flash the Pico. I can't get MicroROS to compile in that environment though.

[samuk]

Or maybe it was just the wifi transport I couldn't enable, it was a while ago that I tried.

This was what I was trying to run:
https://github.com/hippo5329/linorobot2_hardware/blob/3a4f8e1db13c368ad5902b4167217019b36cf2ab/firmware/platformio.ini#L86

https://github.com/hippo5329/linorobot2_hardware/tree/master

[brianlmerritt]

Arduino RP2040 Connect is supported, and I have one, but am away for a while. Will have a go hopefully next week.