Issues with the Axis-Camera

Technical NI LabVIEW
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I have been working for 3 days trying to get the Axis camera to work running from the cRIO. I’ve been running the Rectangle Target Processing example that came with LabView and it works only when the camera is plugged directly into the laptop. We’ve checked our IP address nearly everywhere to make sure that it is correct and we have found no errors. I’ve gone through a couple tutorials on how to get it working to the letter and it isn’t working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Thomas Jenkins
FRC Team 3295
Poly Techs

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Please describe the setup you have tried, the ip you set it to, and other things you’ve tried.

Greg Mckaskle

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Greetings,

we are having the same problem. We use the camera tool to set up the axis camera. We are connecting through a router. We get a green light and select the non 8bit port connection option. The script runs and completes. we then attach the camera through router. We can connect to the CRio. we can run code. we cannot see anything from the camera. when we hook the camera back up to the computer it is showing an IP address 192.168.1.137. I know it is being changed to the correct address after the script runs (10.10.86.11). not sure why it is not staying correct.

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We had the same issue. I was able to get an IP to stick by putting my computer on the 192.168.1.x network, logging into the root of the camera, and manually changing the IP to 10.xx.xx.11 within the settings.

Good luck!

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If the camera IP address is changing when it is power cycled, that is due to an odd issue with the camera imagine tool. A newer tool is posted on the NI site and perhaps elsewhere, or you can manually configure the camera. You can find the manual setup directions in a number of CD posts.

Greg McKaskle

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Have you loaded the Camera Setup patch. There was a bug that caused the IP address change NOT TO STICK (on the older 206 cameras).

http://joule.ni.com/nidu/cds/view/p/id/2262

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If the above suggestions don’t work, please post your begin.vi, and your vision vi.

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Well I don’t know if our program would help. We’re just trying to run the Rectangular Target Processing Example. I tried the update for the axis-camera imaging tool and that didn’t seem to get the camera working. My best guess is that there must be an IP address problem somewhere. I set the camera light to flash just when called in the code, ran the program, and didn’t get a flash. There is missing communication somewhere but I’m not sure where. The new imaging tool set it to 192.168.0.2 I then plugged it into the cRIO and plugged the laptop into the radio. I changed the default IP of the example to 10.32.95.2. We then ran the program through the robot, opened up the vision targeting front panel and get white screens for both the original image and the processed image. What other IP addresses should I try to change? Or am I wrong with the problem?

Thanks,

Thomas Jenkins
FRC Team 3295
Poly Techs