Connecting to URSim on a Virtual Machine with the Machina Bridge

[Hazalyilmaz]

Hi,
I am working on UR for real-time project, but I am working remotely from the physical machine, I don't have access to physical robot every day.
Is there any way to connect the MachinaBridge and UrSim(which is running on my VMware) with the same IP address? (not with the ethernet cable and router) or do you have any idea to connect Machina to a virtual UR robot?
Thanks in advance.

[garciadelcastillo]

Hi @Hazalyilmaz ,

Bad news: at this moment, Machina doesn't support connection to URSim on a VM.

I totally feel you. I have endlessly tried to connect Machina to URSim on a VM, to full failure. I believe I was able at some point to route an IP to communicate to the VM, but once in, I was never able to interface to URSim. I think after some googling, I read that the virtualized URSim just simply doesn't have support for this, it can only be done with the real thing.

What I usually do is I try things out first on RobotStudio (I know, different robots...), and then move on to testing on the real thing.

However, if someone has ever established a successful TCP socket connection to a virtualized URSim, I would much appreciate tips on how to do that :)