blog: Controlling an Aseba robot from a headless system

If you want to control an Aseba-Robot from a headless system, such as a raspberry pi, you can do that with asebamedulla and a Python script, possibly inheriting from the example Aseba client provided on github (beware, the example run of the script did not work for me, because of the with-Statement).

However, running asebamedulla on a headless system means, that no dbus session bus is present and the dbus autolaunch of the client script will fail. To fix this, include

export $(dbus-launch)

in your script that starts asebamedulla and then your client script. In the Aseba forum I could only find the solution to simply boot up the graphical desktop environment, which creates unnecessary overhead.