Hi Christian,

That configuration file is for the ros's dynamic reconfigure system.  You
can change the kinect tilt at run time through ROS's nice reconfigure gui.

check out:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/dynamic_reconfigure

Cheers,
Adam

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:43 AM, cmuell2s <
christian.mueller@smail.inf.fh-bonn-rhein-sieg.de> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I am using ros under ubuntu and I am working with the kinect node. I am
> trying to tilt down the kinect. I coudnt find this functionality in the
> node -- maybe I have overlooked it?! But in the kinect.cfg I found some
> parameters related to this issue:
>
> gen.add("tilt", double_t, 0, "Control the tilt motor, degrees", 0.0,
> -31, 31)
>
> I tried to change the parameters 0.0, -31 and 31; compiled and restarted
> the node. It didnt affect the kinect tilt angle.
>
> Any suggestions? I am glad for any small hint.
>
> Thanks a lot in advanced.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>    Christian
>
>
>
>
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