Not seeing MS Webcam images in default dashboard

[adamdb]

We seem to have everything set up correctly and communications seem fine, but we are not seeing images from the MS Webcam on the Default dashboard. I select "Camera HW" (Camera SW also doesn't work) and click the green right arrow button and the counters change showing the frames per second, but we don't actually see an image in that big box on the left. We have tried both USB ports on the roboRIO, but no images.

Ideas? Other data I need to provide before you can tell me what simple thing we are doing wrong?

Thanks

[Mark McLeod]

1. Don't click on the green arrow.
2. Try pushing Reset on the roboRIO after the camera is plugged in.

[dubiousSwain]

Our team was having trouble with the camera (albeit an axis camera) and our solution was to override the camera ip variable in the dashboard code and hardwire the ip of the camera. It should be inside the second loop, near the left.

[adciv]

What language are you using?
Did the driverstation report you having robot code?
Did the blue light on the MS camera come on?

[adamdb]

• We are using Java, but I was trying to use the Default dashboard. The Java dashboard won't come up at all, but that is probably a different issue. I'm reasonably sure all the software is installed correctly.
• Driver's station does show communications and robot code. I can load up the example program and run autonomous from the dashboard and a motor connected to PWM 1 spins for 2 seconds as expected.
• The blue light is not on on the MS Web Cam. It flashes a couple of times when you first plug it in.
• Did push reset on the roboRIO after plugging in the webcam.
• The camera is shown in the RoboRIO Webdashboard.
  
  What does clicking on the green arrow in the middle right do? Is it then trying to log the images? This is the only way I can get it to do anything. At least in that case the FPS number updates.

[markmcgary]

Originally Posted by adamdb

Ideas?

This post helped us. We added the code in robotInit() (Iterative Robot) and we had a camera image displayed in the standard dashboard while the robot was connected to the driver station, even when disabled.

[Greg McKaskle]

The green arrow, red square, and red circle are for recording the video and smart dashboard values to a log file for later review. Triangle plays a recorded video, circle records the current feed in a new file. Square stops both other actions.

Greg McKaskle

[adciv]

ok, so it sounds like the RIO isn't opening the camera. We're labview so I can't diagnose anymore than that. Let us know if what markmcgary linked to works.

[notmattlythgoe]

So we were able to get our axis camera to show up on the dashboard yesterday by changing the name of it to axis-camera. However, we're having problems connecting to it through our code. We are getting a connection refusal when we access it as such:

AxisCamera camera = new AxisCamera("axis-camera");

Any ideas?

[Greg McKaskle]

Did you try it with .local appended to your address name?

Greg McKaskle

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

Did you try it with .local appended to your address name?

Greg McKaskle

Yes I did. Both gave the same failure. I will get the exception on Saturday and post it.

[notmattlythgoe]

Here is the exception we get when trying to run with

AxisCamera("axis-camera.local");

java.net.ConnectException: Network is unreachable
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:345)
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)
	at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
	at edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.vision.AxisCamera.createCameraSocket(AxisCamera.java:532)
	at edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.vision.AxisCamera.access$200(AxisCamera.java:28)
	at edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.vision.AxisCamera$1.run(AxisCamera.java:406)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

So we were able to get our axis camera to show up on the dashboard yesterday by changing the name of it to axis-camera. However, we're having problems connecting to it through our code. We are getting a connection refusal when we access it as such:

AxisCamera camera = new AxisCamera("axis-camera");

Any ideas?

We've successfully used the AxisCamera class using both ip address and axis-camera.local using the Axis Camera Sample program.

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

We've successfully used the AxisCamera class using both ip address and axis-camera.local using the Axis Camera Sample program.

Have you had any success doing a color threshold of the image?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

Have you had any success doing a color threshold of the image?

I was able to run the 2015 Vision Color Sample, which does a color threshold. I modified it (few lines of code) to get the data from the axis camera, rather then a file. It does a color threshold to find the yellow bin.