Cannot Connect to Camera through cRIO

[Safety3rd]

Originally Posted by gamemonk0

So sorry.

We solved it by updating everything. It seems that, somehow, one of our freshmen had managed to update the driver station without the necessary LabView update. So once we got our hands on that and re-updated the driver station as well, we began to start getting camera feed. Hope this helps.

now where do you find the updates and everything? what website do you go to or does the driver station have a link to check for updates.

[unobtainium-42]

I'm not sure how you don't know where the updates are, they are mandatory and on FIRST's website:

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprogr....aspx?id=10934

Make sure the cRIO's port that connects to the camera turns on its LEDs so the camera has the potential to communicate. I believe this requires a crossover cable.

Include the following lines in the class inheriting SimpleRobot's constructor:

// we just got these lines from the example 2010ImageDemo
AxisCamera &camera = AxisCamera::GetInstance();
camera.WriteResolution(AxisCameraParams::kResolution_320x240)
camera.WriteBrightness(0)

After doing just that, our camera works great, even if it's disconnected or booting it will still eventually start the image feed when the camera goes online.