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Arrow USB Camera issues
Hi,

I tried to get the USB camera working last year and unfortunately that didn't pan out. I am back again with a little more determination and motivation to get the camera to work.

Our camera:
A Logitech C270 USB camera

Our problem:
No video feed whatsoever in the Driver Station(and yes we did try switching every mode on the DriverStation). The camera appears in the roboRIO web dashboard as "cam1".

Our forwarding code:
Code:
        try:
            self.camera = wpilib.USBCamera()
            self.camera.startCapture()
            self.camServ = wpilib.CameraServer()
            self.camServ.startAutomaticCapture(self.camera)
        except:
            self.camera = None
The code is in Python but it should be similar to other languages.

Any suggestions or possible solutions are welcomed and very much appreciated! I have torn more hair out over this long issue than any other programming issue I've had.