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Skip looking for models online? (GAZEBO_MODEL_DATABASE_URI)

Hi there,

is it possible to skip looking for models online?

Similar to this, but without downloading the models.

Thanks, Andrei

Asked by AndreiHaidu on 2015-11-03 06:37:13 UTC

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I did not check on the latest version, but on Gazebo ~2/3 setting GAZEBO_MODEL_DATABASE_URI to "" had the effect of skipping the download of online models.

Asked by silvio.traversaro on 2015-11-04 18:46:23 UTC

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thanks, this does skip connecting to the gz database, however it still tries to connect to the empty one: [Wrn] [ModelDatabase.cc:207] Unable to connect to model database using [//database.config]. Only locally installed models will be available.

Asked by AndreiHaidu on 2015-11-05 03:35:26 UTC

Yes.. as far as I remember that warning did not had any effect (i.e. there was no timeout).

Asked by silvio.traversaro on 2015-11-05 03:38:19 UTC

Hi,

i've got the same problem. Since a few hours the Gazebo Model Database seems to be offline. In order to skip downloading the databse.config, i followed the hints above. Unfortunately, this doesn't help. I receive the following message

Error [ModelDatabase.cc:228] No <database> tag in the model database database.config found here[http://gazebosim.org/models/]
Error [ModelDatabase.cc:287] Unable to download model manifests

Are there any ideas?

Best regards!

Asked by Illuminatur on 2015-12-20 08:01:56 UTC

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With Gazebo 9, I tried setting GAZEBO_MODEL_DATABASE_URI to "" with no effect as it seems to get the default value from somewhere else. However, setting it to any value like "/" did the trick for me.

Asked by cambel07 on 2021-10-12 00:29:18 UTC

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