Cannot Connect to Axis Camera Wirelessly

[computerish]

We have followed the instructions for setting up the camera when it is hooked up to the computer and that works, but when we put the camera on the robot (hooked via a crossover cable to port 2 and download the sample code, nothing happens. (Well, it goes forward for a few seconds and then does nothing.) We are also unable to ping or connect to 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.3.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Russ Beavis]

You can't ping "through" the cRIO to camera (without some software of the cRIO to reroute the pings).

Is your driver station set to Autonomous? That might explain a bit of driving and then nothing.

I've personally found running Basic Robot Main with vision enabled from your development PC and a probe on the signal line that "carries" the picture in Basic Robot Main's block diagram to be EXTREMELY useful to confirm camera operation.

Russ

[computerish]

Thanks for the response. It seems that the code we write is not downloading to the cRIO, even though the 'transferring file' pop-up shows up and completes successfully.

So, the reason it just drove forward, was from the "simple robot" code we had, without any camera code downloaded.

Is there anything else that must be done to download code onto the robot through Windriver, other than just under FIRST>Download ?

[Stillen]

You will not be able to "ping" the camera or see it in a browser once it is configured. Your IP address scheme is based on your Team number ....

example...

if you are TEAM 549, your address scheme is 10.5.49.x, x being the random individual interfaces.

your camera and certain cRIO ports are on the 192.168.1.x. You will not be able to see this network unless you port over or make a static route through the router. This is not what the device was intended for this year, so I do not recomend it.

If you can ping all the other devices on your network you are good to go.

If you want to "see" your camera, you need to use Labview and create a new project, you'll be able to see what the camera sees...

[Boron + Z]

This may be the wrong place to pose this question, but is it FIRST legal to wirelessly transmit video to a driver station. I know <R69> states that teams may use cameras to transmit video as long as it's cleared with FIRST-personel before matches (to make sure the streaming video doesn't mess with the other 6 internet connections to the robots on the fied), but I'm unsure as to whether or not the "camera" is the camera included in the KOP or if we can transmit to Driver Stations.

If this is posted in the wrong place, can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.