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

Andrew Harris andrew.unit at gmail.com
Tue Nov 23 02:03:09 UTC 2010


Hello,

  I'm trying to use camera1394 with a Point Grey Chameleon on Ubuntu
10.04 on a beagleboard-xm.  I am having troubles -- it's an alignment
exception of some kind.  Has anyone tried running camera1394 on
armel/beagleboard-xm before?  I attached a picture showing the current
state of affairs.  In terms of the version of camera1394, I just
pulled the CTurtle base stuff from SVN last night and built everything
on my beagleboard-xm.  Offtopic but funny -- the camera uses more
power than the whole beagleboard running Ubuntu! :)

best regards,
-andrew

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the bug report, Hordur.
>>
>> I just got back from vacation yesterday, please forgive the slow reply.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Hordur Kristinn Heidarsson
>> <heidarss at usc.edu> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I've been testing out the driver with a couple of Videre STH-DCSG-VARX-C
>>> cameras. The node started out without a problem, but I only got empty/black
>>> frames from the camera. After messing around and looking through the code, I
>>> tried commenting out the part where the camera is reset:
>>> //  if (DC1394_SUCCESS != dc1394_camera_reset(camera_))
>>> After commenting that out the driver works fine with the cameras. So I did a
>>> simple fix that checks if the manufacturer and type is VIDERE_DESIGN and the
>>> model is MDS and skip the reset if that's the case.
>>
>> I opened a ticket on this defect (#4396), assigned to me.
>
> I just committed a fix for this defect to the camera_drivers trunk.
>
> As Blaise suggested, I added a new reset_on_open parameter (default
> true). You should set that parameter false for the Videre
> STH-DCSG-VARX-C.
>
> There are many ways to do that, including setting it on the command
> line like this:
>
>  $ rosrun camera1394 camera1394_node _reset_on_open:=false
>
> Before we release that in a C-turtle update, I would like you to
> verify that this change does indeed fix the problem with your device.
>
> If anyone else cares to try it with their device, that would also be
> useful. My test cameras work fine with reset_on_open set either true
> or false. Let me know what camera you tried, how you set the new
> option, and what the results were.
>
> Thanks,
> --
>  joq
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