Yes, the Kinect has power. I can see this from the led on the front as
well as the cord light. I, just tried connecting it and unconnecting
it in a few different patterns but nothing
Unfortunately I have installed Snow Leopard and then Xcode, then dev
Described in the second header here:
http://code.google.com/p/tryplex/wiki/Installation#Common_errors_people_encountered
> Thank you very much for the backup tip and link. I successfully erased
> and .....
> --------Important note: Put the following installation files (openNI,
> NITE and avin2/sensorkinect) in a folder that doesn't contain spaces
> or weird characters, else it'll generate errors during installation---
>
> Everything I downloaded for this process I put into a one word, no
> spaces or weird characters, folder on the desktop. When the files
> unzipped I changed the names of the folders from:
> Nite-1.3.0.18 => NITE
> OpenNI-Bin-MacOSX-v1.0.0.25 => OpenNI
> avin2-SensorKinect-0124bd2 => avin2sensorkinect
>
> I did this to make sure no install errors would come from the folder
> names.
You don't have to change the names of the Nite/openNi/avin2 folders, I've kept them intact without any problems. It's only the name of the folder that they are sitting in that could cause problems.
> When I installed NITE and OpenNI it went fine (once again I saw no
> error messages in terminal... but there were a lot of lines). When I
> installed avin2/sensor kinect it also went fine; no obvious errors.
>
> The next step of (Download and unpack the processing applet, OSCeleton
> 11/1/2010 osx build and QC example QCosceleton.zip) I was unsure of.
> I downloaded the OSCeleton QC toolkit v0.1 from the downloads page.
> Here is where I am unsure of:
> - When it says "unpack the processing applet" does that mean move
> a file somewhere else? If so, which one and where to? And what exactly
> is the 'processing applet' (processing applet == osceleton.app??)?
It's indeed a bit unclear there in the manual. The tryplex toolkit already contains these files, no extra downloading/unpacking needed.
In the OSCeleton and sendOSC folder of the toolkit there are two apps.
osceleton is the one you'll run from the terminal, and sendosc (the processing app) is started in the finder.
> - When I explore the OSCeleton QC toolkit v0.1 I come across a
> folder named QC, underneath are folders 'macro patches' and 'sample
> files'. Within macro patches there are the quartz files and a
> suggestive folder. The folder suggests that in order to install I
> should drag the files there. Upon doing so I get this message:
>
> ------------------The alias “To install drag and drop all files here”
> can’t be opened because the original item can’t be
> found.--------------
> The button options below are delete alias, fix alias, and cancel. I am
> not sure what to do here (before I cleaned my hd and reinstalled
> SnowLep the files went through to their destination just fine.)
Ah, because of the clean install this folder probably doesn't exist yet.
navigate to this folder in the finder from your hard-drive:
Library/Graphics/
and now make a new folder with this name Quartz Composer Patches
and put the macro files there.
> - In the step for the guide (download/unpack/process/applet) is
> it referring to any other package I should get specifically that is
> related to oscelton from the tryplex site other than the 'OSCeleton QC
> toolkit v0.1zip?
> - I downloaded qcOsc.plugin successfully and placed it in /
> Library/Graphics/Quartz Composer Plug-Ins without trouble. However, is
> there some sort of discrepancy when it comes to the right folder? For
> instance, the next line in the guide states install kineme structure
> tools. I did this but noticed that on kineme's site they wanted me to
> put the StructureTools.plugin in
>
> /Users/[you]/Library/Graphics/Quartz Composer Patches/
>
> Clearly not the same location as qcOsc (i.e. in user not library and
> in patches not plugins). There was of course no such folder in the
> user Library, so I made one that followed the spelling and
> capitalization to the T. If this different placement is just how it
> is and I will come to learn it later then so be it, just thought it
> might add to something.
Some 3th party plugin's like to sit in the Patches folder, and some in the Plug-ins folder. Don't know why, but if placed in the wrong folder they won't work.
Changing the name of the plug-in's doesn't make a change, just leave them intact.
> On top of this whole thing I made sure to run QC in 32-bit and
>
>
> The darn problem is that I get this bus error.... still. I even
> uninstalled libusb-devel and reinstalled it. Disconnected the kinect.
> Closed all programs even terminal, restarted the computer, installed
> the whole guide from the very beginning; anything I could think of and
> I still got that pesky error.
>
> After doing everything above I am still not able to connect. If there
> is any more information I could provide on any particular step, any
> logs or other messages: anything, and I will do my best to provide. I
> am so excited to really get this thing working and learn about it but
> I can't seem to trump this error.
>
> To summarize: I believe a problem may be in one of these steps (for
> they appeared to me just a little unsure)
>
>> Wrong folder destination for OpenNI/NITE/avin2kinect
>> I did not perform the download/unpack/process applet step correctly
>> I am improperly placing qcOsc.plugin and/or StructureTools.plugin
>> The 'alias' problem with the 'macro patches' folder
>
> Once again, thank you for the help so far everyone, if you could
> please just look this over and direct me towards a solution or
> alternate action I would much appreciate it.
To narrow it a bit down, the bus error is related to either the libUSB, avin2kinect, openNI, NITE or the hardware. Everything QC related doesn't really use the kinect or the drivers, it only receives OSC information from OSCeleton/sendosc.
The steps you could try now;
- Try to run the openNI examples
- navigate to the OpenNI-Bin-MacOSX-v1.0.0.25/Samples/Bin folder
- open a new terminal window, type cd (with a space after) and drag&drop the Release folder inside the Samples folder. Press enter
- drag and drop the Sample-NiSimpleViewer file from the Release folder and press enter
- let me know what happens
If there's still an error:
- rename the avin2kinect, openNI, NITE folders to their original names, or re-download them and install again.
- I'm also wondering if you got this error:
If during the install of libtool it gives this error:
Error: db46 requires the Java for Mac OS X development headers.
Error: Download the Java Developer Package from:
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: missing Java headers
Error: Failed to install db46
Then Install this package first:
https://connect.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MemberSite.woa/wa/getSoftware?bundleID=20719
The latest OSX doesn't include the Java for Mac OS X development headers annymore standard.
- Try to disconnect all other USB devices except the kinect
I know that the installation can be very nerve wrecking, I spend quite some late night hours trying to figure it out myself.
Thanks a lot for your feedback, this helps us making the install guide much clearer and better!
Any luck yet?
Still strange that you don't get it working. For the 0.2 version of the tryplex toolkit I'm going to perform (and document) a clean install myself. Maybe something has changed/updated in the packages we use that I'm not aware of. I'll put it all on vimeo as a video tutorial.
What kind of system are you on?
Until then I'm completely out of option's what could be happening. Let me know if anything works out!
You shouldn't move any files after installation.
This and your previous error when trying the NI samples show that's there is something wrong in the driver end, either libusb or the avin package.
Shouldn't make a difference.
> Also, when downloading the avin2-sensorkinect do you download the zip
> or tar.gz? Maybe the difference is nominal but I wasn't sure
Both are the same.