AirSim Windows 11 WSL2 and ROS2 not working

[blakermchale]

Bug report

• AirSim Version/#commit: 0becf91
• UE/Unity version: 4.27
• autopilot version: NA
• OS Version: Windows 11 and WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04

What's the issue you encountered?

I'm trying to run the ros2 wrapper like the ros1 wrapper from WSL2 with default quadrotor and call:

ros2 launch airsim_ros_pkgs airsim_node.launch.py host:=$WSL_HOST_IP

It ends up failing because of a timeout with 'getServerVersion' seen below:

Console Output

[INFO] [launch]: Default logging verbosity is set to INFO
[INFO] [static_transform_publisher-1]: process started with pid [26725]
[INFO] [airsim_node-2]: process started with pid [26727]
[static_transform_publisher-1] [INFO][main():98]: Spinning until killed publishing transform from 'world_ned' to 'world_enu'
[airsim_node-2] Waiting for connection - X
[airsim_node-2] Connected!
[airsim_node-2] terminate called after throwing an instance of 'rpc::timeout'
[airsim_node-2]   what():  rpc::timeout: Timeout of 60000ms while calling RPC function 'getServerVersion'

It is connecting to AirSim and I'm not sure what else could be done. I've looked through the PR #3976 and it looks like the tests were done in base Ubuntu.

Settings

Used default.

How can the issue be reproduced?

1. Build ROS2 wrapper in WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04 with ros2 galactic
2. Run ros2 launch airsim_ros_pkgs airsim_node.launch.py host:=$WSL_HOST_IP

Include full error message in text form

Seen above.

What's better than filing an issue? Filing a pull request :).

[blakermchale]

Found the solution, there were some network settings set incorrectly.

[GateraGael]

Hello, what was the issue you were having with the settings.json file. Also were you able to actually build using x64 vs code and run the blocks environment in Unreal ?

[sandilyasg]

@GateraGael @blakermchale where is settings.json located for this WSL setup? Is it in a Windows wsl directory or in the Documents/Airsim folder on your WSL? I am confused because I am trying to run an Airsim simulation in Unity natively in Windows but I am trying to use WSL with ubuntu 18.04 to run the ROS wrapper

[GateraGael]

Hello, the settings.json file should be located on your windows 11 (c drive) Documents/Airsim. This post was back in November, have you had any luck getting the Unity version to work ?

[sandilyasg]

@GateraGael thanks, yes I got the Unity version to work