This example program is the introductory programming example for Spot. It demonstrates how to initialize the SDK to talk to robot and how to get information from the robot services, such as robot id, robot state, list of services running on the robot, and the list of registered payloads. It also logs data to the DataBuffer service.
For your best learning experience, please use the Quickstart Guide found in the SDK's docs/cpp directory. That will help you get your C++ programming environment set up properly. Then, specifically for Hello Spot, you should look at the Understanding Spot Programming file. This document walks you through all the commands found in this example!
To run the example, set BOSDYN_CLIENT_USERNAME and BOSDYN_CLIENT_PASSWORD environment variables with the robot credentials and then run:
./hello_spot {ROBOT_IP}