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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.
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    However, I am getting this issue from voxl-streamer
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    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 Katzfey
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    wrote on last edited by
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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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      #42

      @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
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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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          wrote on last edited by wilkinsaf
          #44

          @Eric-Katzfey Sounds good.

          The other camera is giving me this error
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          The one I compiled could not find the device at all
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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

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              1. Banggood URL

              2. Blue Robotics URL

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              Eric Katzfey
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              wrote on last edited by
              #46

              @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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              • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                @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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                #47

                @Eric-Katzfey Thanks Eric!

                I switched to dev branch (slightly embarrassing as you told me to switch to dev) and pull

                voxl:~/voxl-uvc-server(dev)$ git pull origin dev
                From https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server
                 * branch            dev        -> FETCH_HEAD
                Already up-to-date.
                

                I made sure to install the correct libuvc ipk

                voxl:~$ opkg install libuvc_1.0.2_202112182223.ipk
                Collected errors:
                * opkg_prepare_file_for_install: Refusing to load file 'libuvc_1.0.2_202112182223.ipk' as it matches the installed version of libuvc (1.0.2).
                

                I then built the voxl-uvc-server, ran Makefile, and tried to run
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                • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                  @Eric-Katzfey Thanks Eric!

                  I switched to dev branch (slightly embarrassing as you told me to switch to dev) and pull

                  voxl:~/voxl-uvc-server(dev)$ git pull origin dev
                  From https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/modal-pipe-architecture/voxl-uvc-server
                   * branch            dev        -> FETCH_HEAD
                  Already up-to-date.
                  

                  I made sure to install the correct libuvc ipk

                  voxl:~$ opkg install libuvc_1.0.2_202112182223.ipk
                  Collected errors:
                  * opkg_prepare_file_for_install: Refusing to load file 'libuvc_1.0.2_202112182223.ipk' as it matches the installed version of libuvc (1.0.2).
                  

                  I then built the voxl-uvc-server, ran Makefile, and tried to run
                  19c8da6a-c943-40f8-85b4-350d52459372-image.png

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                  @wilkinsaf Okay, interesting. Let's go back to the original camera with the incorrect size. Can you add the patch I suggested and see if you can make that camera work?

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                  • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                    @wilkinsaf Okay, interesting. Let's go back to the original camera with the incorrect size. Can you add the patch I suggested and see if you can make that camera work?

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                    #49

                    @Eric-Katzfey ope, almost forgot. Yes, let me do that now

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                    • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                      @wilkinsaf Okay, interesting. Let's go back to the original camera with the incorrect size. Can you add the patch I suggested and see if you can make that camera work?

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                      #50

                      @Eric-Katzfey

                      For some reason now it is still struggling to find any device. I tried both cameras
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                      • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                        @wilkinsaf Okay, interesting. Let's go back to the original camera with the incorrect size. Can you add the patch I suggested and see if you can make that camera work?

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                        wrote on last edited by
                        #51

                        @Eric-Katzfey

                        I know that it is there as ffmpeg picks up on it

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                        • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                          @Eric-Katzfey

                          For some reason now it is still struggling to find any device. I tried both cameras
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                          wrote on last edited by
                          #52

                          @wilkinsaf Unfortunately, it's hard to debug this without actually having the camera in my test setup. I've never seen a camera stop being detected like that. I did order the cameras but won't have them in my possession until the 9th of January.

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                          • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                            @wilkinsaf Unfortunately, it's hard to debug this without actually having the camera in my test setup. I've never seen a camera stop being detected like that. I did order the cameras but won't have them in my possession until the 9th of January.

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                            wilkinsaf
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                            wrote on last edited by
                            #53

                            @Eric-Katzfey My apologies. I thought I sent a response to this.

                            Totally get it. Debugging over a message board is really hard. I believe my associate is getting some of the cameras to your offices sooner than the 9th.

                            I have been continuing to try different things on our end.

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                            • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                              @Eric-Katzfey My apologies. I thought I sent a response to this.

                              Totally get it. Debugging over a message board is really hard. I believe my associate is getting some of the cameras to your offices sooner than the 9th.

                              I have been continuing to try different things on our end.

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                              wrote on last edited by Chad Sweet
                              #54

                              @wilkinsaf I have both of the cameras now. I have updated libuvc to version 1.0.3 (http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/) and voxl-uvc-server to version 0.0.6 (http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/). The voxl-uvc-server update isn't really necessary but I cleaned up a little bit of the debug logic. There was a check that was failing in libuvc for the Blue Robotics camera (USB 32e4:9422, "H264 USB Camera") so I removed that check and then it started working. So far it has been reliable. The other camera (USB 337b:090c, "HBVCAM 5M-AF") was coming up without these changes. However, it isn't reliable. Sometimes uvc_open will fail, other times it will pass. If it passes then sometimes it will successfully start streaming and other times it will think it was successful but gets no frames. Not sure why it is having these issues so need to debug more.

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                              • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                @wilkinsaf I have both of the cameras now. I have updated libuvc to version 1.0.3 (http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/) and voxl-uvc-server to version 0.0.6 (http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/). The voxl-uvc-server update isn't really necessary but I cleaned up a little bit of the debug logic. There was a check that was failing in libuvc for the Blue Robotics camera (USB 32e4:9422, "H264 USB Camera") so I removed that check and then it started working. So far it has been reliable. The other camera (USB 337b:090c, "HBVCAM 5M-AF") was coming up without these changes. However, it isn't reliable. Sometimes uvc_open will fail, other times it will pass. If it passes then sometimes it will successfully start streaming and other times it will think it was successful but gets no frames. Not sure why it is having these issues so need to debug more.

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                                @Eric-Katzfey Awesome!

                                Thank you Eric. Will try that out and report back

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                                • wilkinsafW wilkinsaf

                                  @Eric-Katzfey Awesome!

                                  Thank you Eric. Will try that out and report back

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                                  wrote on last edited by Chad Sweet
                                  #56

                                  @wilkinsaf A new version of voxl-uvc-server was just posted here: http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/. Documentation has been updated accordingly: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-uvc-server/. Seems to be working pretty well with your cameras but one of them will fail occasionally. The program will fail and you can try again when that happens. Still not sure why it isn't reliable on all cameras.

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                                  • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                    @wilkinsaf A new version of voxl-uvc-server was just posted here: http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/. Documentation has been updated accordingly: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-uvc-server/. Seems to be working pretty well with your cameras but one of them will fail occasionally. The program will fail and you can try again when that happens. Still not sure why it isn't reliable on all cameras.

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                                    @Eric-Katzfey Nice! Thank you for putting the time in to get that for us.

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                                    • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                      @wilkinsaf A new version of voxl-uvc-server was just posted here: http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/. Documentation has been updated accordingly: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-uvc-server/. Seems to be working pretty well with your cameras but one of them will fail occasionally. The program will fail and you can try again when that happens. Still not sure why it isn't reliable on all cameras.

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                                      @Eric-Katzfey the uvc-server appears to be working. however, the voxl-streamer does not seem to be able to connect to the pipe. is there a different voxl-streamer command than what was mentioned above?

                                      voxl-streamer -f /usr/share/modalai/voxl-streamer/voxl-streamer.conf -c uvc-server
                                      
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                                      • Eric KatzfeyE Eric Katzfey

                                        @wilkinsaf A new version of voxl-uvc-server was just posted here: http://voxl-packages.modalai.com/dev/. Documentation has been updated accordingly: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-uvc-server/. Seems to be working pretty well with your cameras but one of them will fail occasionally. The program will fail and you can try again when that happens. Still not sure why it isn't reliable on all cameras.

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                                        #59

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                                          @wilkinsaf Yes, there is a newer version of voxl-streamer available that has some new configurations defined. See documenation here: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl-streamer/#streaming-uvc-cameras-from-voxl-uvc-server

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