Camera Programming

[ArchVince]

I feel really dumb for having to ask this, especially with the million other threads on the topic. But all of them basically just said to add in something like:

AxisCamera camera = AxisCamera.getInstance();

That's what I did. I did declare it before I initialized it, though. Anyway, it could well be a DriverStation issue, but I know it isn't hardware. I got the camera running through a browser, and I am using a crossover cable for it. Is there more code I need to add in? When I attempted to use it, the video spot is just blank. I then tried to actually drive the robot, and it had completely frozen. Nothing worked. I've had that happen before when my code had a fatal error, so I'm assuming that's what this is. I went back to dev mode, removed the three lines about the camera, and recompiled it. The robot ran fine.

[Robby Unruh]

Be sure to run the AxisCamera Setup Utility on the desktop. Ours didn't work until we used that tool, either.

[ArchVince]

Originally Posted by Robby Unruh

Be sure to run the AxisCamera Setup Utility on the desktop. Ours didn't work until we used that tool, either.

Thanks! Yeah, I had followed the steps outlined in the camera setup thing and that wasn't included, but I guess that's for the new camera. Worked like a charm!