Camera Solution

[basicxman]

Originally Posted by ideasrule

Also, seeing a compass on your driver station doesn't mean that the update works. We uninstalled and reinstalled the update and our dashboard looked exactly as it should, but the camera feed still didn't work. We had to go to Program Files and manually delete ALL of the driver station software and reinstall it before the camera feed worked.

Correct, things should be installed as per this post: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=44 For us, the compass did not display until we had done that.

[ideasrule]

Originally Posted by basicxman

Correct, things should be installed as per this post: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=44 For us, the compass did not display until we had done that.

I meant to say that following those instructions did not work. We did exactly what the instructions said, but still had no feed. We had to browse to C:\Program Files, find the Driver Station folder, manually delete it (as in, delete it using the "Delete" button on the keyboard), and reinstall it again before the feed worked.

[Teh1337Bix]

That's great but it doesn't solve my problem. I need to declare a camera variable with a class scope and then assign to it in the classes constructor, yet every time I put it in the class it gives me error.

[TPNigl]

We just got our camera working today, which was very exciting. The simple solution after all the updates was just putting in those few lines of code from the OP. Should've seen that coming, but ah well. Here's to hopefully solving many other confused teams' problems.

[Sauce]

Thanks a lot man, this worked!

[K3V1N.Team70]

OK, We here in Goodrich, MI have completed all of these steps and this does not work for us. we are using c++, we have been using the 2010ImageDemo and it seems to have all the code posted above, we have all the updates and the camera works through the Ethernet port on the DS, we have had no luck here and would appreciate some help.
Thanks in advance, Team 494 & 70

Originally Posted by K3V1N.Team70

OK, We here in Goodrich, MI have completed all of these steps and this does not work for us. we are using c++, we have been using the 2010ImageDemo and it seems to have all the code posted above, we have all the updates and the camera works through the Ethernet port on the DS, we have had no luck here and would appreciate some help.
Thanks in advance, Team 494 & 70

Are you using the orange crossover cable between the camera and the cRIO??
We're having the same problems you are and we did not have any success yet either.

BC

[Al3+]

Thanks for this! We just got our camera up and running.

To the above, we had that problem too earlier. When we tried to use a regular ethernet cable, the lights on the port on the cRIO weren't blinking. With the proper crossover cable (it was pink in this year's kit), the lights were blinking and we were able to get images on the screen. Are they blinking for you guys?

As for the code, where is the proper place to set up the camera instance? The way it is right now (in OperatorControl) it seems like the bot would stand still for 10 seconds at the beginning of the round.

[TPNigl]

You put the declaration of the camera object in the first set of brackets after the imports, and the rest in robotInit