I'm having trouble with this camera stuff

[Ianuser]

Ok, I want to make a button turn off the camera and then the same button turn on the camera. THis is what I have. (This is in the Default_Routine())

             int now4; //for mapping p3_sw_aux2 to ON or OFF (reset CAMERA)
	int last4;	//for mapping p3_sw_aux2 to ON or OFF (reset CAMERA)

	last4 = now4;
	now3 = p3_sw_aux2;

some joystick stuff...then..

if((Get_Camera_State() == 0) && (now4 == 1) && (last4 == 0))
  {
   	  Restart_Camera(); //Sets Camera in Recieving Mode so it can be used.
  }
  
  if((Get_Camera_State() == 1) && (now4 == 1) && (last4 == 0))
  {
	  Camera_Idle(); //Sets Camera in OFF Mode in case we need to stop chasing the light and go into manual mode to go back to home base or something
  }

Will Camera_Idle() stop the Camera from functioning so the robot will no longer track the light? It does, right? Cuz it stops the initialization of it. So, doesn't Restart_Camera() do the opposite of Camera_Idle()? If not, please tell me if there's a way in which I can do this? Maybe I'm mapping the button incorrectly, but its not working, I know that.

p.s. The camera works fine (sorta, thats another story though), it just doesn't stop searching when I press the button. I want it to stop searching when I press the button.

[Alan Anderson]

If you want the camera to stop searching, just stop calling Servo_Track().

[Bomberofdoom]

How exactly do you stop calling a function? Unless you use an if code to define that once something happens, move on with the code, not going over Servo_Track() again, how can you stop calling it?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Bomberofdoom

How exactly do you stop calling a function? Unless you use an if code to define that once something happens, move on with the code, not going over Servo_Track() again, how can you stop calling it?

That is exactly how you do it.

  if(I_want_to_search)
    Servo_Track();

Just make "I_want_to_search" true to begin with, and make it false when you don't want to call Servo_Track() anymore.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Ianuser

Will Camera_Idle() stop the Camera from functioning so the robot will no longer track the light? It does, right? Cuz it stops the initialization of it. So, doesn't Restart_Camera() do the opposite of Camera_Idle()? If not, please tell me if there's a way in which I can do this? Maybe I'm mapping the button incorrectly, but its not working, I know that.

p.s. The camera works fine (sorta, thats another story though), it just doesn't stop searching when I press the button. I want it to stop searching when I press the button.

When the camera has a green color blob in its view, it sends T packets over the serial port to the RC.

Servo_track() looks to see if there are new t packets in the input buffer. If there are, the RC knows that the camera sees a color blob and locks on to it. If there are no new t packets, the camera will go into its search routine (as it does not see any color blobs..)

Camera_Idle() writes a "\r" to the camera serial port. This tells the camera to stop what its doing, and to stop sending t packets.

Restart_camera() simply sets an initialization flag to 0, so when the Initialize_Camera() function is called, it will return all of the internal workings of the camera back to their default (this is probably for users who want to mess around with polling mode, virtual windows, gains, etc..)

The problem you are having is you are Initializing the camera (default in user_routines.c from the camera workspace), stopping the camera from sending t packets, and then clearing the init flag. You are never telling the camera to turn back on. You can do this in one of two ways.
A) Call Initialize_Camera() again.
B) Call Track_Color() with the default stuff as arguments.
I would do the latter as re-initializing the camera will cause it to go through a bunch of code that isnt going to do anything. Also, you don't need to call Reset_Camera() ever.

[Bharat Nain]

if(p3_sw_top)
    {
          Servo_Track();
    }
else
    {
          (Whatever, set servos to 127 or something)
    }