update.md

Updating your robot

This is a set of steps used to make sure your robot hardware is up to date. We will assume you have installed:

• stretch_ai
• stretch_urdf

There is an update script which should handle some aspects of this. Code installed from git must be updated manually as below.

Step 1: Update the stretch_ai repository

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the stretch_ai directory.
2. Run the following commands to update the repository:

git pull
git submodule update --init --recursive

Step 2: Update pip packages

1. Open a terminal and run the following command to update all pip packages:

pip install --upgrade hello-robot-stretch-body hello-robot-stretch-urdf

Step 2: Update the stretch_urdf repository

1. Open a terminal and navigate to the stretch_urdf directory.
2. Run the following commands to update the repository:

git pull

Then run the update tool:

stretch_urdf_ros_update.py
stretch_urdf_ros_update.py --ros2_rebuild