Re: [Playerstage-users] Controlling Canon VC-C4 as a PTZ?

[Brendan B. <bre...@gm...>]

Thanks.  I'll do some robot surgery and try that...

btw, I've posted a (somewhat blurry [silly iMac inscreen camera...])
picture of the PTZ + urg laser mount that I had build for our pioneer
at:

http://www.cs.union.edu/~bburns/URG_PTZ.jpg

If anyone is interested.
--brendan

On 1/17/07, Brian Gerkey <br...@ge...> wrote:
>
> On Jan 17, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Brendan Burns wrote:
>
> > Hello folks,
> > I have a P3-DX with the Canon VC-C4 ptz camera.  I was wondering how I
> > can establish a ptz driver for the camera.  I see that there is a vcc4
> > driver in player, but when I try it as follows:
> >
> > driver
> > (
> >   name "canonvcc4"
> >   provides ["ptz:0"]
> > )
> >
> > It fails to connect.  The camera is in the factory configuration wrt.
> > to the serial port. (e.g. connected to aux)  What device (e.g.
> > /dev/??) should I use to talk to the camera?
>
> I believe you'll have to connect the camera directly to a serial port
> on the host computer.  The driver doesn't support control via the
> microcontroller board's AUX port.
>
>         brian.
>
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