Need help with axis camera
 

We are a rookie team and we are getting both the cRio and axis camera. When we press the "setup axis camera tool", nothing happens. When we go to the tools drop down menu and hit press the same button, labview minimizes then restores. Can someone please provide some insight into our problem

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

Make sure to first connect your Axis Camera from the kit of parts to the laptop with a (yellow) crossover Ethernet cable. Check out page 27 of the Getting Started with the 2012 FRC Control System article for an in-depth guide on configuration. Good luck!

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

Note that the Axis Camera setup tool has confirmed issues. An update is on the NI site here: https://decibel.ni.com/content/thread/11663?tstart=0

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

Thanks guys, I thought that following the instructions would basically lead me through setup, but I wasn't sure if we were the only ones with this problem.

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

I had issues with the Camera setup tool as well. After using the tool, I could switch IP addresses and see the camera, but if it was power cycled it wouldn't respond properly. I was able to ping it, but it wouldn't grant access to the web server.

I just manually configured it.

The easiest way to make sure you can communicate with the camera is to set your IP address manually. The factory IP of the camera is 192.168.0.90, so if you set your IP to 192.168.0.x (x = anything from 1 to 254, except 90) and subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 you should be able to log in to the camera. You'll open up a web browser and type in 192.168.0.90 and the page should pop up asking you to enter a password for user root. After that, follow the directions.

- Bryce

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

This sounds like you are missing the Utilities Update to me, it is trying to launch the camera tool, but the tool isn't there to launch.

http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2262

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

we actually have installed the utilities updates, which is why i am confused. we are still learning the programming part of the robot as our school doesn't have any programming classes, and the axis camera not working doesn't help as i am a 'guess and check' kind of person, but thanks to all who ave posted responses. #4058 really appreciates the input

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

Our team had the same problem, it is the axis tool they gave us for some reason when you power down the camera it losses it setting i found the new tool the published
https://decibel.ni.com/content/message/31018
the download should be at the bottom of the page

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Thank you so very much, we finally have video. Thanks again for your help:)

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

Okay when i open the axis camera setup, it sees that the camera is connected an i enter our team number, but it then says that the camera needs to be setup manually. I then open internet explorer and type in the ip of the camera and i am then prompted with the login screen. HOWEVER, when i put in the login root and the password pass, i am reprompted (if thats a word). What am i doing wrong?!?:mad:

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

Believe it or not, that is normal for the camera.

When you first log into a camera that has been factory reset, it has no password for any accounts. The first time it asks you for the password, you aren't logging in, you are just setting the password for the root user. Once you go past that screen, it goes to the regular login screen and asks you for a user and password. On later logins, it will go straight to the login screen.

Greg McKaskle

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

When i go to the appropriate ip address in the browser, a dialog box pops up and reads "The server 192.168.0.90 at AXIS_00408CA7DDAB requires a username and password." then i put in root and pass in the appropriate boxes but nothing happens. That is where i am stuck

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

What does it do after you enter those values? If the login is correct, the screen should have a header with some links in the upper right to let you setup, preview, etc.

When you do this on a new computer, there tends to be a yellow Permission Slip at the top of the screen asking if you want to install the control for viewing the image. The cool thing is that the control is on the camera, but the screen is pretty blank until you install the control.

If that doesn't help, please take a screenshot or describe what the failure is.

Greg McKaskle

If you set up the camera with the setup utility, then try FRC and FRC for user and password.

Re: Need help with axis camera
 

We got it working. Thanks to team 234 from perry meridian for your help, and to all others for your responses