[ros-users] Mesa SwissRanger SR4000 and swissranger_camera

[Jack O'Quin]

2010/7/15 Gonçalo Cabrita <goncabrita at gmail.com>:

> I just downloaded swissranger_camera to try our SR4000 with ROS.
> I previously installed libmesasr as required. However when I try to run
> swissranger_camera the node wont even connect to the camera:
> "blazz at blazz-ros:~$ rosrun swissranger_camera swissranger_camera

> I noticed that swissranger_camera works for libmesasr API >=1.0, and at the
> mesa website I found the following statement:
> "The API interface has changed from driver version 1.0.8.xxx to 1.0.10.xxx
> Existing applications based on the 1.0.8.xxx driver must be adapted to the
> new interface."
> Could it be that the version currently available at the mesa website no
> longer works with swissranger_camera? Or am I just missing something out?
> Thanks for the help,

That package should download and install the correct version if you
run rosdep like this:

 $ rosdep install swissranger_camera

Then, rebuild the package.
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 joq