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Re: Best USB Camera for a Rookie Team

We're using three Logitech C920 cameras. One for vision processing with GRIP, two for driver station feeds, all three running through a Raspberry Pi 2.

We struggled a bit during build to find a way to change the exposure settings via script on Arch Linux, but one of our students managed to get an old Logitech utility built and working on the Pi. Without that the image processing camera would have been very difficult to tune.

We also had issues at our first regional getting the two camera feeds to reliably show up on SmartDashboard, using static IPs. In the end we mistakenly had the "mDNS" option still enabled in the SmartDashboard, and the Pi had been forgetting its static IP when cold-booted. After fixing those the feeds were 100% for us.

As far as cameras, the C920 was solid.
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