HOWTOs

This page contains a set of short informal recipes to help you solve common challenges you may face when using RTI Connext DDS. This recipes include topics such as configuring favorite IDE to work with our libraries, tuning the performance of your application, or configuring your firewall to let DDS traffic through.

You can contribute by commenting on existing HOWTOs or creating your own here (requires logging in).

How to format Discovery Data Export XML to HTML using XSLT Stylesheet Template

This HOWTO shows an utility to browse files generated by the Admin Console 5.3.0 “Export Discovery Data” feature. It styles the exported xml file into readable tables with expandable sections and dropdowns.
Enrique
Mon, 12/11/2017 - 04:57
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RTI Connector: Installing on Windows using npm

RTI Connector for Connext DDS is a convenient way of using scripting languages (JavaScript, Python, or Lua) to access a DDS network, and is available through the RTI Labs website (https://www.rti.com/labs), from the RTI github account(https://github.com/rticommunity/rticonnextdds-connector), or can be installed quickly using npm, the Node(.js) Package Manager.

Some extra steps may be needed when installing RTI Connector on a Windows PC:

neil-rti
Wed, 11/15/2017 - 12:48
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RTI Routing Service: How to create a transformation plugin

RTI Routing Service provides a transformation SDK in C to support the creation of custom transformation plugins. A route can be created by RTI Routing Service. This route transforms the incoming data, using this custom transformation plugin, and then republishes the updated data.

This article will be based on an example provided by RTI rti_workspace/<version>/examples/routing_service/shapes:

ajimenez
Mon, 11/06/2017 - 10:02
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Useful tools to debug DDS issues

Sometimes DDS users face issues while developing their applications, like for example communication issues. In these situations, usually we get this question: how can I figure out the issue and solve it?

There are several tools and features that can help you to debug your DDS issues:

sonia
Tue, 04/25/2017 - 07:59
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How to link DDS shared libraries on Windows with MinGW

This solution describes steps to compile a program in Windows using MinGW and link the shipped RTI Connext DDS libraries which are compiled with Visual Studio.

francisco
Mon, 08/08/2016 - 07:34
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How to add an IDL file to a Visual Studio Project

This article illustrates how to configure Visual Studio generate code using rtiddsgen.
francisco
Tue, 05/10/2016 - 03:13
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How To configure Wireshark to show RTPS packets with specific colors

This article illustrates how to configure Wireshark to enable custom coloring rules for the RTPS packets.these are the ones provided by default.
Juanjo Martin
Tue, 01/05/2016 - 04:08
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