Cannot Display Images on Dashboard

Technical C/C++
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Hi all,

We are using an Axis Camera 206 connected to port 2 on our cRIO. However, we have a persistent error of not being able to display images from the camera on the dashboard. We have code that says:

AxisCamera &camera = AxisCamera::GetInstance("192.168.0.90");

However, we are able to get data from the camera (i.e. particle analysis reports), but we are unable to get the images from it to display on the Dashboard or SmartDashboard. We also chose the correct options in the Axis Camera Setup. The user was stated to be “FRC,” and the password was also “FRC.” Is there a reason for the user and password? Any ideas for how to get the images on the smart dashboard/ dashboard?

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The Dashboard program is written to expect the camera to be connected to the DAP-1522 router, and to be configured at the 10.te.am.11 IP address. If you have it connected instead to the second Ethernet port on the cRIO and at the default 192.168.0.90 address, the Dashboard will not be able to view its output. You can either move and reconfigure the camera (and change the address in your robot code to match), or you can change a well-labeled boolean constant in the Dashboard program to get the camera image through the cRIO and build a new Dashboard .exe file.