ROS2 Foxy proper release

[doisyg]

Repost from: intel/ros2_intel_realsense#133

Hello,
Now that ROS2 LTS Foxy is out, many companies are considering to switch for real to ROS2. What's the planned effort for the realsense wrapper ? It seems that most of the development effort is focused on this ROS1 wrapper.
Shouldn't the ROS2 repo (https://github.com/intel/ros2_intel_realsense) be hosted on this organization and maintained by the same people?
Is there any development timeline and a release target date ?

[doronhi]

Hello,
We feel the same way. I don't have a specific target date yet but work is already underway.
Since librealsense2 still not officially supports Ubuntu 20.04, the first realsense2_wrapper for ROS2 will be for eloquent (Ubuntu 18.04).

[doisyg]

Good to know.
For info, we are using librealsense2 (deb install) on Ubuntu 20.04 + the ROS1 wrapper without any specific issue (compiled from src under ROS noetic)

[allenh1]

Any update on this? And (slightly off topic) is there a plan to get the T265 to work with ROS 2?

[doronhi]

Covid19 shuffled my plans but still we managed to release a ROS2 version. Currently only for eloquent. This version include the same support for T265 as the ROS1 wrapper.
You can download it from: https://github.com/IntelRealSense/realsense-ros/tree/eloquent

[allenh1]

This version include the same support for T265 as the ROS1 wrapper.

Fantastic news! Thanks!

[liushuya7]

Can this eloquent package be run on ROS2 Foxy? I built it and run the camera node, everything seems working fine except there is no image showing from the camera topic.
See my post in Issue #1336