Live Feed with Axis Camera

Technical Programming
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How does one set it up so that you receive live feed on a laptop from the Axis camera? We’re just fiddling with the robot now that we’ve gone to our regional. I’m not exactly experienced with this sort of thing, so I was wondering if anyone could give me a link or something to help me figure it out. I’ve seen stuff about packets and what not in other threads, and I get what that means, just not how it all works.

I appreciate any help given on this.

~CHSboy

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You will be hard pressed for bandwidth if you want to do this in competition. As per update #5 (http://usfirst.org/uploadedFiles/Team%20Update%205.pdf) we only have 984 bytes per packet we can use for video, and any live video will likely not be useful at that rate.

Edit: There was a previous discussion on this topic here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=75872

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If you haven’t figured it out already, just launch the dashboard and make sure the button beneath the image display is lit up. If using C/C++, there may be a function call to start vision back to PC. For LV framework it is built in.

Greg McKaskle

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…
PCVideoServer pcvs;
public:
RobotDemo():pcvs()
…

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Note that this won’t work in competition, for options on what will, see the thread that Shadow503 linked to.

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I don’t need to worry about competition rules. We already were in the competition. Right now we’re just seeing what all we can do with our stuff. Tinkering basically.

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Also, I’d like to add that we are using LabVIEW