Camera Image Not Displaying On Driver Station

[Gnome2013]

Our camera image will not display the image but does show the MB/s and FPS, it also works on our other computer. What can I do to fix this?

[Greg McKaskle]

What dashboard are you using, and do you think you configured your camera according to the directions, or using the tool provided?

Greg McKaskle

[Joe Ross]

Is this by any chance the same computer that is having trouble imaging the cRIO? Can you access the camera in a web browser?

[Gnome2013]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Is this by any chance the same computer that is having trouble imaging the cRIO? Can you access the camera in a web browser?

No our programming computer is having that problem but it now works we just used the 2012 Imaging tool and it works fine now. Our driver station is having the issue with the camera which is configured with the 2013 camera tool fine. I can access it through the web browser and on our programming computer just not our driver station.

[flamer075]

Originally Posted by Gnome2013

No our programming computer is having that problem but it now works we just used the 2012 Imaging tool and it works fine now. Our driver station is having the issue with the camera which is configured with the 2013 camera tool fine. I can access it through the web browser and on our programming computer just not our driver station.

It is very possible it is the computer that you are using. If you are using the classmate that FIRST provides the CPU statistics are not good enough to use for a driver station. My team uses the programming computer as the driver station as well, that is a possible solution.

[connor.worley]

Originally Posted by flamer075

It is very possible it is the computer that you are using. If you are using the classmate that FIRST provides the CPU statistics are not good enough to use for a driver station. My team uses the programming computer as the driver station as well, that is a possible solution.

The classmate, although not perfect, is definitely capable of being used as a DS for a robot with a camera.

[DaveFrederick]

We are having the same problem.
Using the "Default" 2013 dashboard, there is no camera video on the display.
We have the enable button green, the Frames Per Second floats around 19 and the data rate is 1.2 MPS.
I can access the camera with the browser directly (10.18.95.11) and the Java Smartdashboard is showing video.

Is there any Documentation on the basic dashboard?
I would like to understand what the resolution and compression controls are for.

Regards,
Dave Frederick Team 1895, Manassas VA

[Greg McKaskle]

Connect with the web browser and look at the settings on the camera. Does the camera have an account of FRC? Also, are any of the imaging settings odd, such as brightness set to zero or one hundred?

The default dashboard opens a stream to the camera using the FRC account and asks for MJPEGS at the rate, resolution, and compression set on the controls on the panel. The other settings are not able to be specified and are whatever the camera boots with from last time it was used.

Greg McKaskle

[DaveFrederick]

Greg,
The camera has the required FRC account with the password FRC.
I have also enabled anonymous access.
The image on both the browser and Smart Dashboard look fine.
Is there some documentation on how the basic dashboard access the camera? (e.g. which account, which IP address, and what the controls do)

Thanks,
Dave Frederick, Mentor, Manassas, VA Team 1895

[Greg McKaskle]

The default dashboard ships with source code. There are comments in the code, but I'm don't know exactly what documentation exists beyond that.

Another possible issue is that the dashboard makes its request to 10.te.am.11. What is the camera IP? Also, the DS has to be running and have the team number configured in order for the dashboard to know what IP to use.

If that isn't it, I'd recommend making a dashboard project from the Getting Started window and doing a little debugging to see where it may be failing. I'll be happy to help.

The attached image shows the relevant icon that takes in the IP and other settings and could potentially return an error.

Greg McKaskle

[DaveFrederick]

Greg,
I believe the camera is at the correct IP address. I can access the camera with the browser directly (10.18.95.11) and the Java Smartdashboard is showing video.

Where is the source code?
I downloaded the camera update from:
http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2263

Regards,
Dave Frederick

[RufflesRidge]

Originally Posted by DaveFrederick

Where is the source code?

From Greg:

If that isn't it, I'd recommend making a dashboard project from the Getting Started window

[DaveFrederick]

Greg,
Can you expand on "Getting Started window"? What does this mean and where is it at?

We use JAVA for our development environment.

Thank you,
Dave Frederick

[RufflesRidge]

Oops! Sorry about that! The default dashboard is a LabVIEW program. To view the source you would need to install LabVIEW and the FRC LabVIEW Update.

[RoboPirate]

We are having the same issue. The same setup worked with the 2012 Driver Station and cRIO image. Upgrade to the 2013 software and now the image won't display on the driver station. Can access the camera directly with a web browser.