Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
jazzy

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
kilted

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
rolling

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro ardent showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro bouncy showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro crystal showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro eloquent showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro dashing showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro galactic showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro foxy showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
iron

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro lunar showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro jade showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro indigo showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro hydro showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro kinetic showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro melodic showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Package Dependencies

No dependencies on ROS packages.

System Dependencies

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

No launch files found

Messages

No message files found.

Services

No service files found

Plugins

No plugins found.

Recent questions tagged ecal at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro noetic showing humble. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

ecal package from ecal repo

ecal

ROS Distro
humble

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 6.0.0
License Apache 2.0
Build type CMAKE
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/eclipse-ecal/ecal.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2025-06-30
Dev Status DEVELOPED
CI status No Continuous Integration
Released RELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer. A fast publish-subscribe cross-plattform middleware using Shared Memory and UDP.

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Eclipse Foundation, Inc.

Authors

No additional authors.

eCAL - enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer

Windows Ubuntu macOS

License

The enhanced Communication Abstraction Layer (eCAL) is a middleware that enables scalable, high performance interprocess communication on a single computer node or between different nodes in a computer network. eCAL provides publish - subscribe and server - client pattern to connect different nodes in the network with almost no configuration required.

eCAL automatically chooses the best available data transport mechanism for each link, it supports:

  • Shared memory for local communication (incredibly fast!)
  • UDP and TCP for network communication

Visit the eCAL Documentation at 🌐 https://ecal.io for more information.

Architecture

eCAL Architecture

Facts about eCAL

  • eCAL is fast (1 - 20 GB/s, depends on payload size. Check the measured performance here)
  • eCAL provides both publish-subscribe and server-client patterns
  • eCAL is brokerless
  • eCAL provides a C++ and C interface for easy integration into other languages (like python, csharp or rust)
  • eCAL can be used in conjunction with Matlab Simulink as eCAL Simulink Toolbox for simulation and prototyping
  • eCAL has powerful tools for recording, replay and monitoring all your data flows - decentralized
  • eCAL is simple and zero-conf. No complex configuration for communication details and QOS settings are needed
  • eCAL is message protocol agnostic. You choose the message protocol that fits to your needs like Google Protobuf, CapnProto, Flatbuffers
  • eCAL uses the standardized recording format HDF5
  • eCAL integrates gently into your ROS2 environment with the eCAL RMW
  • eCAL supports Intel and arm platforms

  • eCAL runs on a wide variety of operating systems:
    • Windows (stable)
    • Linux (stable)
    • QNX (experimental)
    • MacOS (experimental)
    • FreeBSD (experimental)

Installation

We provide binary installers for Windows and Ubuntu. If you need further help installing and configuring eCAL, please refer to the documentation.

Windows

Download the latest eCAL Installer and follow the Setup Wizard

eCAL Setup

We only support 64bit Windows 10 / 11

Ubuntu

Install eCAL from our PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecal/ecal-latest
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ecal

This PPA will always upgrade you to the latest eCAL Release (-> Rolling Release PPA). If you intend to stay on an specific release, check out other PPAs here.

Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 for CPU architectures amd64, armhf, arm64 are supported at the time of writing. Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu are usually supported, too.

Example

Using eCAL in your project to exchange data is simple. After you have downloaded eCAL and installed CMake, you are good to go.

Check out the Hello World example from the eCAL documentation for further details.

#include <ecal/ecal.h>
#include <ecal/msg/string/publisher.h>

#include <thread>

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  // Initialize eCAL. The name of our process will be "Hello World Publisher"
  eCAL::Initialize(argc, argv, "Hello World Publisher");

  // Create a String Publisher that publishes on the topic "hello_world_topic"
  eCAL::string::CPublisher publisher("hello_world_topic");

  // Infinite loop
  while (eCAL::Ok())
  {
    // Publish a "Hello World" message
    publisher.Send("Hello World");

    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(500));
  }

  // finalize eCAL API
  eCAL::Finalize();
}

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