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

Patrick Beeson beeson.p at gmail.com
Tue Jun 15 22:39:21 UTC 2010


Same Sonys as on Marvin, Lucid, 64-bit, with Cturtle installed from
.debs and your new camera1394 from trunk.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
> --
>  joq
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