Cannot launch openni_camera: No devices connected (ROS electric)

Question

I'm using Linux Mint 12 x64 (based on Ubuntu Oneiric) and ROS electric.

I installed the openni_kinect stack using the instructions here: http://www.ros.org/wiki/openni_kinect

sudo apt-get install ros-electric-openni-kinect

hg clone https://kforge.ros.org/openni/drivers openni-drivers
cd openni-drivers
make
sudo make install
cd ..
hg clone https://kforge.ros.org/openni/openni_ros 
rosmake openni_kinect --rosdep-install
sudo usermod -a -G video jaustin

I then restarted, made sure the Kinect had external power (got a blinking green light), saw the following from lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 013: ID 045e:02c2 Microsoft Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 014: ID 045e:02be Microsoft Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 002 Device 015: ID 045e:02bf Microsoft Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 413c:2105 Dell Computer Corp. Model L100 Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 045e:00cb Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse v2.0

But when I try to start up the openni_camera stack, it does not detect the device:

$ roslaunch openni_camera openni_node.launch ... logging to /home/jaustin/.ros/log/b8a3ebd8-7a9f-11e1-8f79-0090f5c64449/roslaunch-italy-18810.log Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take awhile. Press Ctrl-C to interrupt Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is

I know there is a related question here. That question was answered, but it's from a while ago, and the answer (basically, "I re-installed ubuntu and it just worked") is not very satisfactory. So I thought it couldn't hurt to bring it up again.

Does anyone have any ideas on things I could try, or troubleshooting steps I could follow? Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

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Originally posted by jessicaaustin on ROS Answers with karma: 16 on 2012-03-30

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Answer 1

Figured it out.

I bought a "Kinect for Windows" instead of XBOX 360 Kinect Sensor. Apparently this new version, while it has better hardware, is not yet supported by openni

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Originally posted by jessicaaustin with karma: 16 on 2012-03-30

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Original comments

Comment by Kevin on 2012-09-11:
Is it supported yet? Have you tried libfreenect?

Answer 2

Can you try it out with:

$ roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch

$ rosrun image_view image_view image:=/camera/rgb/image_color

and not with

$ roslaunch openni_camera openni_node.launch

and tell me which output you get.

BTW: Are you using the "Kinect for Winows"?

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Originally posted by GermanUser with karma: 125 on 2012-04-02

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Answer 3

I get this error when I install Groovy on Ubuntu 12.10 and do the following:

1. Go to "www.openni.org/openni-sdk/openni-sdk-history-2" and download NiTE v1.5.2.21 for Linux-x64
2. Unzip it and go inside the top-level directory
3. Type: sudo ./install.sh

Before I do these 3 lines above, "roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch" works fine but after I do them I get:

No devices connected.... waiting for devices to be connected

Dave

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Originally posted by davevh with karma: 36 on 2013-02-03

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Original comments

Comment by jcc on 2013-03-11:
I'm also getting this error on fuerte and ubuntu 12.04 32bits ( i install the 32bits NITE)