First of all, which model camera are you using? Do you have the Axis
206 or
m1011? We've run into some similar problems using the older (206) camera. I'm not sure if the Axis Camera configuration tool provided by FIRST is model dependant, but we also ran into trouble when using the tool. Once we set the camera settings manually, everything worked normally. Here's our process, in case it helps:
- Reset the camera (hold the button on the back and power up at the same time)
- Change your computer's IP to 192.168.0.12 (the last number can be anything except 90)
- Plug the camera directly into your computer's ethernet port, using a crossover cable
- Open you web browser of choice, and navigate to 192.168.0.90
- You will be prompted for a password: "pass"
- On the left side on the screen, go to the "Users" page (or some derivation of that)
- Change the password for the admin account to "admin"
- Create a new user account, username "FRC", password "FRC"
- Go to the "Network Settings" (or some derivation thereof) page and change the camera's IP settings to the following:
- Camera IP: 10.te.am.11 (where te.am is your team number; mine is 11.24)
- Subnet mast: 255.0.0.0
- No gateway
- Hit save.
- Change your computer IP to 10.te.am.5 (or any address not already in use)
- Plug the camera into the dlink bridge using a regular (un-crosssedover) cable and plug your computer into the dlink with another regular ethernet cable
- Point your web browser to 10.te.am.11, and enter the proper login credentials (that you set a few steps above)
- If you see a live feed, you've done it right!
This document may also be of use (note: it's last year's document, so a little incomplete, but the settings there are correct. It will take you through about my step 4.3.
This process worked for us (I just did it about 30 minutes ago), and it's probably not the best way to solve the problem, but it'll work (albeit require some more work on your part). YMMV.