[ros-users] call for testing: camera1394 in C-turtle

Jack O'Quin jack.oquin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 22:32:33 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Patrick Beeson <beeson.p at gmail.com> wrote:
> A few things Jack.  1) if no guid is given its defaults to the first
> camera, but the guid is not displayed in the dynamic_reconfigure GUI.
> 2) The defaults for my camera have the gain so low, that the image is
> black.  New users may think this isn't working.  I'd suggest at least
> setting auto_gain to 2 to ensure they see something.  Also, the
> tutorial could use a page on using the yaml files.  It took me a while
> to realize that the new API needs me to set auto_* to 3 in order for
> the sclalrs I set to have any effect.
>
> These are small things.  I think you've done a remarkable job taking
> the original 1394 driver and making it easy to use and stable.  One of
> these days I hope to find time to do the same with the
> swissranger_camera driver.

Thanks for the report, Patrick.

What system, cameras, etc. did you try?
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 joq



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