USB Cameras with roboRIO

[rod@3711]

Originally Posted by cbf

Most USB cameras will work. Are you by any chance using the SmartDashboard? If so, then try the Labview ("default") Dashboard and set it to USB Camera (HW). Once you get a video feed there, you can then switch the SmartDashboard.

This is due to a bug in the WPILib CameraServer class (that's been there for at least two years). We made our own version that fixed the bug.

Thanx for this note. The camera is much more important this year than last year. Last year we just gave up on the HD-3000 usb camera. This year we switched to a Logitech Usb camera and we get consistent image exposures.

We find that having to go to the Default Dashboard to get the video feed going (via USB Camera HW), then switching to SmartDashboard annoying. One of those things that we would rather not have to do while frantically setting up for a match.

We are using USBcamera class and code in C++.