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Re: Camera offset a lot.... odd

Phalanx - I understand what you're doing - mechanically aligning the camera to get your servo centers correct.

That is not our issue. The relative servo values have no effect on how the camera tracking software works. The camera - for whatever reason, is intent on focussing on one side of the light when tracking.

We don't currently have the knowledge to get the color tracking software working - but we have let the camera focus on the light then grabbed a snapshot. In every case the light is over to one side. - Until we adjusted the offset.

This doesn't make sense. With the base camera code, the camera should be placing the light near the center of the camera lense / center pixel. Neither our new nor our old camera is doing so, with default camera code.