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Re: GRIP with USB Camera

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Originally Posted by nollchr View Post
Just curious if anyone has gotten GRIP to work on the RoboRIO using a USB camera. We have it running with the Axis IP camera, but the two MS lifecams we tried both throw that same error.
We haven't tried a USB camera with GRIP on the RoboRio. However, we've been going through some contortions to get it running on the Raspberry Pi 2, and that's also Linux and may share some problems/solutions?

We're using a Logitech C920 USB, and were initially unable to get it directly working with GRIP running on a RPi2. Not too surprising, since that platform isn't not officially supported by GRIP. However, there's an awesome thread on Github with a lot of great community activity getting GRIP onto RPi2.

With the info in that thread we were able to get that USB camera's feed published as an IP camera using mjpeg-streamer, which GRIP was then able to find and use on the RPi2, running Linux Arm. Might be something to try on the RoboRio?

We haven't yet verified GRIP is publishing stuff to NetworkTables, we hope to verify that tonight.