Thread: USB Cameras with roboRIO
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Re: USB Cameras with roboRIO
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Originally Posted by rod@3711 View Post
We find that having to go to the Default Dashboard to get the video feed going (via USB Camera HW), then switching to SmartDashboard annoying. One of those things that we would rather not have to do while frantically setting up for a match.

We are using USBcamera class and code in C++.
We re-tooled much of the CameraServer class in C++ ourselves in order to switch between two USB cameras on the RoboRIO (ugh, bandwidth). In general, the whole class just seemed poorly written and way too touchy.