Saving images/video from camera (LabVIEW)

[Greg McKaskle]

The cRIO onboard flash is accessible using file I/O. This should be true of reading text scripts, or saving images. To get an idea of what the disk of the cRIO looks like, ftp to it. If you do more than look, you may have to reimage...

Greg McKaskle

[Chaos in a Can]

Thanks for the tip.

For some reason, the IMAQ write function does not work on the robot. I had it set up to organize screenshots into directories by date though, and I can see the directories where it would have saved a screenshot had it worked.

Taking screenshots and video from the dashboard works normally, though I must have the timing loop for the video set up wrongly because, though it should be adding 10 frames a second to an avi set at 10 fps, the resulting video goes looks like the fast-forward button is held down.

[Carter12s]

FYI The Imaq and Imaq dx Vision bundle were not originally able to function on the cRIO. In June of 2010 Labview released an update for which gave that capability. You can expect it to appear in the 2011 competition code.