Kinect on RoboRIO not showing up as "camX"

[ckirschner]

I haven't been able to confirm on my own that it can be used as a webcam but I have seen other teams use the Kinect on the 2016 robot and I've seen the images stremed back to the Smart Dashboard. So I would guess it does. I have their code as well and I haven't been successful in getting the data to the dashboard yet.

The files I put on there are the libfreenect.so files. The kinect libraries look for these libraries on the RoboRIO

[nickbrickmaster]

The roborio should have a driver for the rgb camera already. Does the video0 device appear when you have the Kinect plugged in?
To check:

ls /dev | grep video

If so, you can use mjpg-streamer to get a video feed from it.

[ckirschner]

I will check that out when I get back in front of the robot.

I really don't even technically need the Kinect to stream back to the dashboard. We have a have a separate webcam that we enable during teleop that the drivers can use. The Kinect is really just supposed to give us positioning help for shooting at the goal. But getting it to the dashboard (which I've seen done) will help us figure out the use of it a bit better.