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    gauravshukla914
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    Okay. Looking forward to your solution asap!

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      Can you please type and report the output?
      opkg list-installed | grep royal

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        Assuming the ipk is installed, can you please then run this command and then try the ROS node again?

        setprop persist.camera.modalai.tof 1

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        • Chad SweetC Chad Sweet

          Can you please type and report the output?
          opkg list-installed | grep royal

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          gauravshukla914
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          @Chad-Sweet
          this is the version of royal sdk installed
          royale-331-spectre-4-7 - 0.0.1

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          • Chad SweetC Chad Sweet

            Assuming the ipk is installed, can you please then run this command and then try the ROS node again?

            setprop persist.camera.modalai.tof 1

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            gauravshukla914
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            @Chad-Sweet
            Thanks for the solution it worked!
            but after a minute or so it started throwing error

            DEPTH_IMAGE
            	IR: 1 ..... Cloud: 1 ..... Laser: 1
            Camera id: 0
            Image width: 224
            Image height: 1557
            Number of frames to dump: 0
            Camera mode: preview
            SUCCESS: Camera module opened
            Camera Id: 0 Facing: 1
            Camera Id: 1 Facing: 1
            SUCCESS: TOF interface created!
            =========== modalai  Royale3.31, Spectre4.7 CameraDevice::activateUseCase() : return SUCCESS!!
            =========== modalai  Royale3.31, Spectre4.7 CameraDevice::activateUseCase() : return SUCCESS!!
            Libcamera sending RAW16 TOF data. App calling the PMD libs to postprocess the RAW16 data
            [ INFO] [1610561725.908936828]: Loading lens parameters from /data/misc/camera/irs10x0c_lens.cal.
            [ INFO] [1610561725.913180926]: 
            cx/cy     114.822 89.022
            fx/fy     111.394 111.394
            tan coeff -0.00222965 -0.00368372
            rad coeff -0.261745 0.098178 -0.0166875
            
            
            
            
            
            Camera HAL3 ToF camera test is now running
            Frame: 0 SensorTimestamp = 	 213139865341
            Frame: 30 SensorTimestamp = 	 214139747341
            Frame: 60 SensorTimestamp = 	 215139847341
            Frame: 90 SensorTimestamp = 	 216139794341
            Frame: 120 SensorTimestamp = 	 217139814341
            Frame: 150 SensorTimestamp = 	 218139859341
            Frame: 180 SensorTimestamp = 	 219139889341
            Frame: 210 SensorTimestamp = 	 220139917341
            Frame: 240 SensorTimestamp = 	 221139905341
            Frame: 270 SensorTimestamp = 	 222139941341
            Frame: 300 SensorTimestamp = 	 223139931341
            Frame: 330 SensorTimestamp = 	 224139999341
            .
            .
            .
            .
            .
            Frame: 2430 SensorTimestamp = 	 294139985341
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Error sending request 2449
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Framenumber: 2446 ErrorCode: 4
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Framenumber: 2447 ErrorCode: 2
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Framenumber: 2448 ErrorCode: 2
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Framenumber: 2449 ErrorCode: 2
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Framenumber: 0 ErrorCode: 1
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Error sending request 2450
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Error sending request 2451
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Error sending request 2452
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Error sending request 2453
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Error sending request 2454
            ^C[tof/voxl_hal3_tof_cam_ros_node-4] killing on exit
            [base_link_laser_scan-3] killing on exit
            [base_link_tof_cam-2] killing on exit
            HELLOCAMERA-ERROR: Error sending request 2455
            [tof/voxl_hal3_tof_cam_ros_node-4] escalating to SIGTERM
            [rosout-1] killing on exit
            [master] killing on exit
            shutting down processing monitor...
            ... shutting down processing monitor complete
            done
            
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              ModalAI Team
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              OK, good progress. That should be working. Can you give it a full power cycle and see if it says up?

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                gauravshukla914
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                I am not sure if I understood that. Can you please elaborate.

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                  Chad Sweet
                  ModalAI Team
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                  Unplug power from the VOXL and plug it back in. Then try the test over. You look like you're in a working state.

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                    can you please explain this setprop persist.camera.modalai.tof 1

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                      ModalAI Team
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                      It is the way for software to tell which TOF driver should be used. Setting to 1 supports the HAL3 method you are using, setting to 0 supports the older libCamera method using tof_cam_ros

                      The HAL3 method is intended to give the developer more control over the pipeline

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                      • Chad SweetC Chad Sweet

                        It is the way for software to tell which TOF driver should be used. Setting to 1 supports the HAL3 method you are using, setting to 0 supports the older libCamera method using tof_cam_ros

                        The HAL3 method is intended to give the developer more control over the pipeline

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                        gauravshukla914
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                        @Chad-Sweet
                        Thanks a lot its been a great help.

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                          Hi @gauravshukla914 ,

                          Thanks for the help with this. We've released a new beta version of the voxl-hal3-tof-cam-ros that supports auto detection of ToF and defaults the persist.camera.modalai.tof setting properly.

                          It will be in out next voxl-suite release, but is available from our dev channel here if you are interested in using this link

                          The updated readme is here.

                          Thanks!

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