Add IP Axis Camera Viewer to Smartdashboard

[cpapplefamily]

Where did the option go to view the Camera an the Smartdash board for the IP Cameras? Is there a new way?

[brian5115]

Should be under View>Add>Simple Webcam or something similar

[cpapplefamily]

That option is gone.

[AustinShalit]

Should be under View>Add>Simple Webcam or something similar

That was the old way of doing it. We removed that widget and replaced it with a new widget named MJPG Stream Viewer. Just set the “MJPG Server URL” property to the location of the stream. For most axis cameras that is:

http://axis-camera.local/mjpg/video.mjpg

[Peter_Johnson]

You can also use CameraServer’s addAxisCamera() function, which will add the Axis camera to the drop down list in SmartDashboard’s CameraServer widget. This has one additional benefit: the Axis camera view will work even when the DS is connected via USB (instead of Ethernet), as the CameraServer code on the roboRio automatically creates a low-overhead server that copies the Axis camera stream.

[brian5115]

That was the old way of doing it.

TIL I have an outdated version of SmartDashboard.

[cpapplefamily]

That was the old way of doing it. We removed that widget and replaced it with a new widget named MJPG Stream Viewer. Just set the “MJPG Server URL” property to the location of the stream. For most axis cameras that is:

Thank you that solved it. Is this documented on the Screen Setup pages? I did look some but it didn’t jump out at me.

You can also use CameraServer’s addAxisCamera() function, which will add the Axis camera to the drop down list in SmartDashboard’s CameraServer widget. This has one additional benefit: the Axis camera view will work even when the DS is connected via USB (instead of Ethernet), as the CameraServer code on the roboRio automatically creates a low-overhead server that copies the Axis camera stream.

Great tip. We often do connect via USB and often miss having the camera available.