voxl-streamer client repetitive connect/disconnect

wilkinsaf · 20 Dec 2021, 18:48

@Eric-Katzfey roger that. thank you for your support here Eric

wilkinsaf · 20 Dec 2021, 18:55

@Eric-Katzfey will post results after run

wilkinsaf · 21 Dec 2021, 16:10

@Eric-Katzfey Sorry for being such a pain, but it seems like this repo keeps moving.

I went to https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server

but got this

I keep searching around for the repo, but can not find it

Eric Katzfey · 21 Dec 2021, 20:39

@wilkinsaf Sorry, it was setup as private. I changed it to public. Can you try again?

wilkinsaf · 22 Dec 2021, 03:21

@Eric-Katzfey Got it, thank you!

Will download and play with

wilkinsaf · 22 Dec 2021, 03:25

@Eric-Katzfey Will it remain public?

Eric Katzfey · 23 Dec 2021, 15:48

@wilkinsaf Yes, it will remain public. Did you get a chance to see if the changes worked?

wilkinsaf · 27 Dec 2021, 19:39

@Eric-Katzfey Testing out today

wilkinsaf · 28 Dec 2021, 18:46

@Eric-Katzfey

We seem to be having trouble finding the camera now which is weird. I wonder if we need to specifically download and install the drivers?

Eric Katzfey · 28 Dec 2021, 18:58

@wilkinsaf No, you shouldn't need any drivers. Any USB device should be listed with lsusb, even without any specific drivers. Does it show up when plugged into a regular Linux computer?

wilkinsaf · 28 Dec 2021, 18:59

@Eric-Katzfey Yes, we have hardwired it into a computer before. We have seen the stream using ffmpeg on VOXL as well. We just can not seem to get voxl-streamer to work with it

Eric Katzfey · 28 Dec 2021, 19:00

@wilkinsaf If you unplug the camera from Voxl does anything disappear from the lsusb list?

wilkinsaf · 28 Dec 2021, 20:53

@Eric-Katzfey

Yes, the top 3 entries in lsusb screenshots above are all cameras. I can unplug those one by one and see them disappear.
Would it matter if we have 2 UVC cameras?

Eric Katzfey · 28 Dec 2021, 20:56

@wilkinsaf Just try one at a time for now. And when you plug the camera in do you see a new /dev/videoX entry appear?

Eric Katzfey · 28 Dec 2021, 20:57

@wilkinsaf Also, were you able to get the ordering information for these cameras? If they aren't too expensive I would like to order at least one of them to test against.

wilkinsaf · 28 Dec 2021, 21:53

@Eric-Katzfey

Yes, let me try one at a time now.
Here are the two cameras

![0_1640728100493_PXL_20211228_214717072.jpg](Uploading 100%)

wilkinsaf · 28 Dec 2021, 21:59

@Eric-Katzfey

Good news, I was able to get voxl-uvc-server to spin up with one usb camera connected.

However, I am getting this issue from voxl-streamer

Seems like I need to figure out the frame size and set the correct one. Let me play around with that now

wilkinsaf · 28 Dec 2021, 22:05

@Eric-Katzfey Doesn't look to be frame size as the "sizes" seem non-deterministic

Eric Katzfey · 28 Dec 2021, 22:08

@wilkinsaf Great, that's some progress! What about if you try the other camera? Not sure why the frame length is different. For a given resolution and frame format that number should be a constant. (e.g. 640 x 480 x 2).

wilkinsaf · 28 Dec 2021, 22:15

@Eric-Katzfey

Good suggestion. Let me try that.
Check out the length when uvc server fires up

Got frame callback! frame_format = 3, width = 640, height = 480, length = 613376, ptr = 0

interesting