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  • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

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

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    wilkinsaf
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    @Eric-Katzfey Got it, thank you!

    Will download and play with

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    • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

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

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      @Eric-Katzfey Will it remain public?

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        @Eric-Katzfey Will it remain public?

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

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        • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

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

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          @Eric-Katzfey Testing out today

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          • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

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

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            @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?

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            • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

              @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?

              2f9579c4-88ea-4693-b7a8-e67415540bad-image.png

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              @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?

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              • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                @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?

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                @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

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                • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                  @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?

                  2f9579c4-88ea-4693-b7a8-e67415540bad-image.png

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

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                  • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

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

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                    #35

                    @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?

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                    • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                      @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?

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                      @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?

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                      • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                        @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?

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                        @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.

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                        • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                          @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.

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                          @Eric-Katzfey

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

                          4de39b51-2708-4707-a1fe-d67161270aa3-image.png ![0_1640728100493_PXL_20211228_214717072.jpg](Uploading 100%)

                          1. Banggood URL

                          2. Blue Robotics URL

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                          • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                            @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.

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                            @Eric-Katzfey

                            Good news, I was able to get voxl-uvc-server to spin up with one usb camera connected.
                            21d09d1b-d888-45a2-a663-51af22ab926b-image.png

                            However, I am getting this issue from voxl-streamer
                            cc766c80-29ad-4160-8191-964e40998ea5-image.png

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

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                            • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                              @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.

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                              @Eric-Katzfey Doesn't look to be frame size as the "sizes" seem non-deterministic
                              f7371975-b223-4f6e-a9f0-3e2b3e744c26-image.png

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                              • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                                @Eric-Katzfey

                                Good news, I was able to get voxl-uvc-server to spin up with one usb camera connected.
                                21d09d1b-d888-45a2-a663-51af22ab926b-image.png

                                However, I am getting this issue from voxl-streamer
                                cc766c80-29ad-4160-8191-964e40998ea5-image.png

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

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                                @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).

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                                • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                  @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).

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                                  @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

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                                  • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                                    @Eric-Katzfey Doesn't look to be frame size as the "sizes" seem non-deterministic
                                    f7371975-b223-4f6e-a9f0-3e2b3e744c26-image.png

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                                    @wilkinsaf You can try modifying this line in voxl-uvc-server: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server/-/blob/dev/src/main.c#L83

                                    Make it read: .size_bytes = 614400, \

                                    Then rebuild it and try again.

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                                    • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                      @wilkinsaf You can try modifying this line in voxl-uvc-server: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server/-/blob/dev/src/main.c#L83

                                      Make it read: .size_bytes = 614400, \

                                      Then rebuild it and try again.

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                                      #44

                                      @Eric-Katzfey Sounds good.

                                      The other camera is giving me this error
                                      dab62085-ee06-487d-97c0-99bcd228e382-image.png

                                      The one I compiled could not find the device at all
                                      ad11d578-596e-44b3-b240-049dea293fa4-image.png

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                                      • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                                        @Eric-Katzfey Sounds good.

                                        The other camera is giving me this error
                                        dab62085-ee06-487d-97c0-99bcd228e382-image.png

                                        The one I compiled could not find the device at all
                                        ad11d578-596e-44b3-b240-049dea293fa4-image.png

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                                        @wilkinsaf Perhaps you are working on master branch? The latest and greatest (The one you should be using) is the dev branch.

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                                        • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                                          @Eric-Katzfey

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

                                          4de39b51-2708-4707-a1fe-d67161270aa3-image.png ![0_1640728100493_PXL_20211228_214717072.jpg](Uploading 100%)

                                          1. Banggood URL

                                          2. Blue Robotics URL

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                                          @wilkinsaf Thanks! I'm going to order them so that I can have them as part of our normal USB UVC camera test suite.

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