camera not showing

[BradAMiller]

Can you be sure that you:

1. Make sure you are running the correct version of SmartDashboard. It should be the one on the Windows Start menu, not the one in the sunspotfrcsdk/tools folder.
2. Make sure that the IP address is set properly in the properties for the camera widget. You have to put the SmartDashboard into edit mode, then right-click on the camera widget and select properties. From there fill in the IP address.

Both of these steps are illustrated on this page:
http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/...sion-installer

Brad

[Dragonslayerend]

I have the same problem, but mine works when I have it connected through ethernet. Then sometimes it works with it connected to the bridge, but if I connect the bridge to the cRIO the camera feed shuts off in Smart dashboard.

[Dragonslayerend]

Also as with the camera not working after connecting with the cRIO, it will flash a short feed if I reconfigure my TCP/IP from the driver station. Help would be much appreciated, the smart dashboard is really resourceful but it just doesn't work!

[Dragonslayerend]

What I noticed was the SmartDashboard installer v.104 (or something with a 4 in it) gave me many problems until I installed the v.5(or something with a 5 in it) then it got me able to use two cameras simultaneously. Big problem though was at competition out camera feed shut down the whole playing field and we couldn't play because of the massive bandwidth the cameras took. So in the end we had to resort to labview for camera feed.

[Johnbot]

Originally Posted by Dragonslayerend

What I noticed was the SmartDashboard installer v.104 (or something with a 4 in it) gave me many problems until I installed the v.5(or something with a 5 in it) then it got me able to use two cameras simultaneously. Big problem though was at competition out camera feed shut down the whole playing field and we couldn't play because of the massive bandwidth the cameras took. So in the end we had to resort to labview for camera feed.

You can set the frame rate, the compression, and the resolution by going to your camera's ip address in your web browser, going to setup, and changing the settings. The labview dashboard sets these parameters automatically to the option slider things it has. For the smart dashboard, you have to set them in the camera's setup page or it will use way too much bandwidth. (We learned that the hard way )

[mkausas]

We had this issue in the beginning of the season, we thought we had configured everything correctly but we had been using the 32bit version of the SmartDashboard instead of 64bit. Make sure you have downloaded the right one for your driver station computer.