Axis 206 help needed!

[BrandonAbe]

Hey. I am having some vision problems. When I set up the Axis using the imaging tool to use my bridge it works fine. However, once I turn off the robot and turn it back on again, the camera won't work in my driver station. I have my station set to 10.10.25.5, and the camera is still at the default IP 192.168.0.90. How can I get my driver station to load the image every time the robot turns on? Below is a sample of my robot's camera code...


// Acquire the camera object
printf("Waiting for camera to boot\n");
Wait(5.0);
printf("Getting camera instance\n");
AxisCamera &camera = AxisCamera::GetInstance("10.10.25.15");
printf("Setting camera parameters\n");
camera.WriteResolution(AxisCamera::kResolution_320 x240);
camera.WriteCompression(20);
camera.WriteBrightness(0);

/*
// Process the camera image
if ((m_teleopPeriodicLoops % 10) == 0) { // 5 Hz
AxisCamera& camera = AxisCamera::GetInstance();

if (camera.IsFreshImage()) {
ColorImage *image;
camera.GetImage(image);
BinaryImage *thresholdImage = image->ThresholdRGB(threshold); // get just the red target pixels
BinaryImage *bigObjectsImage = thresholdImage->RemoveSmallObjects(false, 2); // remove small objects (noise)
BinaryImage *convexHullImage = bigObjectsImage->ConvexHull(false); // fill in partial and full rectangles
BinaryImage *filteredImage = convexHullImage->ParticleFilter(criteria, 2); // find the rectangles
vector<ParticleAnalysisReport> *reports = filteredImage->GetOrderedParticleAnalysisReports(); // get the results

for (unsigned i = 0; i < reports->size(); i++) {
ParticleAnalysisReport *r = &(reports->at(i));
printf("particle: %d center_mass_x: %d\n", i, r->center_mass_x);
}
printf("\n");

// be sure to delete images after using them
delete reports;
delete filteredImage;
delete convexHullImage;
delete bigObjectsImage;
delete thresholdImage;
delete image;
}
}
*/
}

[Mark McLeod]

Try picking up the latest Axis Camera Tool from NI Utilities Update (http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2262). The original kickoff one had a settings bug that lost the camera when it was powered down.

Fixes in 2.0
cRIO Imaging Tool - Timeout error due to various network interface configurations
Setup Axis Camera Tool - Axis 206 camera loses communication after power cycle

The camera is also normally set to 10.10.25.11 (rather than .15)

[BrandonAbe]

Thanks, I'll try it out when we unbag again on Tuesday. I was trying arbitrary numbers, and I saw someone used .15, so I tried it. Thanks for all the help.