Microsoft Lifecam HD-3000 in Java

[Jeremy2145]

What do you need to do to stream the Microsoft Lifecam HD-3000 to the Smartdashboard?

[markmcgary]

We are running Java and this post (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1427102&highlight=CameraServer#post1427102) helped us. We added the code in robotInit() (Iterative Robot) and we had a Lifecam HD-3000 USB camera image displayed in the standard dashboard while the robot was connected to the driver station, even when disabled.

[Jeremy2145]

After adding that into the robotinit() it gives an error on "new CameraServer();" saying that "the constructor CameraServer() is not visible." Any ideas?

[markmcgary]

It appears that CameraServer is (now) a Singleton class. Try this:

CameraServer camera = CameraServer.getInstance();
camera.setQuality(50);
camera.startAutomaticCapture("cam0");

-or-

CameraServer.getInstance().setQuality(50);
CameraServer.getInstance().startAutomaticCapture("cam0");

[Tyfighter98]

This post might help as well. http://goo.gl/gVoLH6