What does the Camera Slow Down?

[Dave Scheck]

Originally Posted by ErichKeane

Is there any way to disable the sending of the video over the wire to the dashboard? We used the stock dashboard and only enabled the camera (at 320x240), and found that our controls were ~1 second delayed when we got on the field at portland.

We ended up just disabling all our camera code and just leaving the initialization and still saw a huge slow down, so we just decided to just give up ont eh camera entirely.

When you instantiate the AxisCamera object, it creates the video server task behind the scenes. If you comment out the instantiation the server won't be started and video won't be sent.

EDIT: After rereading your post it sounds like you might be trying to use the camera onboard without sending video back. If that's the case you would need to specifically update the WPILib code to not start the server automatically.