camera1394: No cameras found

Question

Hi, I have camera connected through firewire:

$ lsfirewire
fw0: Linux Firewire Juju
fw1: Point Grey Research Flea2 FL2G-50S5C

However, when I try to run camera1394_node I get:

$ rosrun camera1394 camera1394_node 
[ERROR] [1351859527.447323402]: [camera] device open failed: [Camera1394::open]: No cameras found

I have tested the camera on another machine and it worked without problems. This machine does not have graphical interface so coriander is not an option here.

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Originally posted by liborw on ROS Answers with karma: 801 on 2012-11-02

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Original comments

Comment by joq on 2012-11-02:
Did camera1394_node work on the other machine?

Comment by liborw on 2012-11-04:
Yes, it works.

Answer 1

So far, there is no evidence of a ROS driver problem. The Flea 2 is known to work with camera1394, and your camera works with it on another system.

You may be able to run coriander (slowly) on a system with a display by using a remote X connection.

If that does not work and presuming the driver and the camera do work, the next step is to check the stuff in the middle.

• Is the 1394 cable working? Maybe try a different one.

• Is the 1394 host adapter on your headless system good? Apparently it found the device, but there could still be troubles actually talking to it.

• Is this kernel firewire driver identical to the one on the system that worked? (Probably OK, Juju is the latest firewire driver for Linux.)

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Originally posted by joq with karma: 25443 on 2012-11-06

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