Setting Up 2010 Camera

[sdlynx]

Well we got the new DS update up, but unfortunately there's still no camera feed. We just downloaded the default C++ code onto the cRIO, with the v19 image. Is there something we're missing? The camera box no longer says "Timeout in Camera Communication" or whatever it used to say before, if that is of any use. It's just empty and white.

[Greg McKaskle]

Another thread uncovered a potential issue that causes the camera to boot very slowly. As a test, let the camera boot for a few minutes and see if it starts working. If so, the issue has to do with the C++ code immediately requesting an image after a failed one. If this is the issue, I'll look for the other thread.

Greg McKaskle

[sdlynx]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

Another thread uncovered a potential issue that causes the camera to boot very slowly. As a test, let the camera boot for a few minutes and see if it starts working. If so, the issue has to do with the C++ code immediately requesting an image after a failed one. If this is the issue, I'll look for the other thread.

Greg McKaskle

I don't think this is the problem, as we've tried using the camera after letting it boot for a good 10 minutes (idle time while looking through code). Any other ideas? It seems other teams are getting their cameras to work fine but no dice for us. if I haven't mentioned before, we get feed through the IP when it is directly connected, meaning that the problem must exist either in our code (which is apparently supposed to display the camera image automatically?) or the Driver Station, which we just updated.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by sdlynx

Is there something we're missing? The camera box no longer says "Timeout in Camera Communication" or whatever it used to say before, if that is of any use. It's just empty and white.

Let's get the silly and obvious detail out of the way: make sure the little on/off control under the video display window is ON.

[sdlynx]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Let's get the silly and obvious detail out of the way: make sure the little on/off control under the video display window is ON.

Haha, yes the little control button is on on the dashboard.