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Mock hardware doesn't support every feature of the driver at the moment. This should be made clear in the documentation.
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URJala authored Jan 10, 2025
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**Custom script snippets** can be sent to the robot on a topic basis. By default, they will
interrupt other programs (such as the one controlling the robot). For a certain subset of functions,
it is however possible to send them as secondary programs. See [UR
documentation](https://www.universal-robots.com/how-tos-and-faqs/how-to/ur-how-tos/secondary-program-17257/)
documentation](https://www.universal-robots.com/articles/ur/programming/secondary-program/)
on details.
<br/>
**Note to e-Series users:**
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descriptions. For more details see `ros2_control documentation
<https://control.ros.org/rolling/doc/ros2_control/hardware_interface/doc/mock_components_userdoc.html>`_
for more details.

.. note::
Some driver functionalities currently don't work with mock hardware:

* The TCP pose broadcaster does not work.
* The passthrough trajectory controller does not function when calling the follow joint trajectory action.
* The force mode controller also does not respond when trying to start force mode.
* The GPIO controller cannot verify that it has changed the state of an I/O pin, so it will report a failure when trying to set an I/O pin.

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