Kinect Setup

[Cloris Sopha]

Youcan connect to microsoft Teams already via the Edge browser in XBOX. You can view others via their webcam, however you cannot use a webcam / kinect to display you. In order to do this, Microsoft must make an XBOX version of the Microsoft Teams app. So far there are no plans to do so, however the current state of covid lockdowns in countries means people are screaming for this to happen.

There is a video demonstrating how to connect with what you already have. This was aimed at school students to connect to school when they have no other internet device, but this applies to anyone.

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Hi everyone, i am having a weird problem with the azure kinect. When i run the Kinect sdk the video feed is stable. I open the Kinect in notch and the video feed glitches as if it has the digital block glitch node applied. But instead of colors it looks like it is flashing the frame but with an offset 50% on X - so if i have an empty room with a chair in the middle i get these glitchy frames where i get two halves of the chair on each side of my screen. The kinect firmware is 1.4.0 which was giving me the same defect on the previous version of notch ( the latest one before the nvidia AI tracking update). I am currently using the latest version of notch. I have not yet updated the Azure, will do that today. Is there something else i can also try or i am doing wrong that might be causing this glitch?

Do I need any drivers to run the kinect on ROS? I ran sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-openni* and it downloaded 5mb of files. Then I tried following the tutorial at the wiki but when I ran the first command it said "[ Info] ... No Devices Connected ..." . lsusb shows up with the xbox nui camera and audio and a microsoft device on bus 1.... I'm using the XBOX 360 kinect and power cord from microsoft...What am I doing wrong here?Thanks,

"This package contains launch files for using OpenNI-compliant devices in ROS. It supports the Asus Xtion, Xtion Pro, and multiple version of the Primesense 1.08 and 1.09 cameras. It does NOT support any versions of the Kinect. freenect_launch or openni_launch is the recommended package for using a Kinect with ROS."

It still says no devices connected... A device made by microsoft with code: 045e:02c2 showed up when i executed lsusb.... any other ideas? Also when I run roslaunch freenect_launch freenect.launch I get No devices connected.... waiting for devices to connect

Actually it says that openni2 does not support any of Kinects. openni should support. btw. I was encountering with the same problem but freenect_launch solved it. I am able to get rgb and depth data On the other side I have to change lacun files which calls openni_launch as default with freenect

What I get afert luanching freenect is just the following message [INFO] [1428079238.372035547]: Stopping device RGB and Depth stream flush. And I don't know what does it means,so is still kinect having troubles ? Because I also run rviz, trying to see an image

What's the model number of your kinect? Kinect 1473 doesn't work with openni2. Remove ros-indigo-openni2-launch and ros-indigo-openni2-camera. Try to install ros-indigo-openni-launch and ros-indigo-openni-camera. Then following the tutorial and launch the OpenNI driver like this:

Hola, buenas noches!... Yo tambin he intentado con todo hasta ahora y no he podido usar mi kinect... El modelo que yo tengo es 1414 y uso la versin ROS indigo... hice todo lo que han mencionado hasta ahora, ya instale y desinstale varias veces todo y aun as no lo consigo... ayuda por favor!

Welcome to ROS Answers! This isn't an answer to the question above, so I suggest you post a question and tag it with kinect and openni. As to your issue, it would be helpful if you could post the output of lsusb and roslaunch freenect_launch freenect.launch in your question.

I did everything mentioned in but if I run roslaunch freenect_launch freenect.launch i'm not able to connect to Kinect at all......INFO] [1485464131.648351596]: Searching for device with index = 1if I run freenect-glview I get:

Number of devices found: 1Could not claim interface on camera: -5 (libusb_ERROR_NOT_FOUND)Failed to open camera subdevice or it is not disabled.Failed to open motor subddevice or it is not disabled.Failed to open audio subdevice or it is not disabled.Could not open device...

just wanted to add to the above- I had to change directory to get it to launch. in a new window enter "cd /opt/ros/indigo/share/freenect_launch/launch" then "roslaunch freenect.launch" But I'm a total newb.

Thanks for your input, but next time, please consider putting it as a comment. cd to the directory the launch file is in is not necessary if you source the /opt/ros/indigo/setup.bash file. Then you can just use roslaunch without cd. Hope this helps!

My Kinect started doing the same thing well before I joined the preview program, so I'm doubtful that they're related. I'm anxious to see if anyone on here finds a solution as I've had to completely unplug the device from my system now and wouldn't mind getting it back for the dance games I purchased for my kids.

I decided it was probably the Kinect itself rather than software, but as this particular kinect broke previously too and the fact that being out of warranty it was going to cost 50 to get it repaired, I instead bought a second hand one from webuy.

There is a post on Giantbomb, in which a user states that a fuse located at j11 is blown, thus causing his Kinect to not turn on. He said he couldn't source an identical part. I wonder if a similarly rated fuse would get it back running again?

It was the fan. Been working like a champ ever since the incredibly hard disassembly/reassembly. You must reinsert the cable BEFOREreassembly, and I ended up removing the shock mount rubber because otherwise I couldn't get it back together

I just bypassed the j11 thermal fuse that had blown back in 2015 not long after my post, I needed it badly so I just figured I would solder 1cm of some 8amp 2.7mm auto cable to replace/bypass the thermal fuse and it's worked ever since.

Now before you say it, yes I know what the risks were frying my kit, I am an experienced registered domestic electrician and an ex Royal Navy marine engineer, It was just supposed to be a temporary measure.

as my Kinect was a couple of weeks out of warranty I would of had to pay to get it fixed, which would have been 50 and then I'd get 3 months warranty. Buying a second hand one from webuy (which is not as old as my own) was only 35 and that comes with a 12 month warranty...so now I have a spare Kinect. I may open it up to see if it were something trivial, like a loose wire, but I don't have much of a clue with electronics.

On small delicate electronics alway replace the Fuze. Just always. If you are going to go for broke get a fuse that seems reasonable to the situation. Many times you can figure it out simply by knowing the voltages and just measuring the current across the fuse when device is running.

Hey bud how do you bypass the fuse and also if the Kinect turns on and off ,is it for sure the thermal fuse that's needs to be replaced or something else because it turns on so that means the fuse does work and is malfunctioning or is it something else

I have this problem too, first i replaced a new fan ,but it didn't work, then i think it was the temperature control unit, i had no idea to fix the temperature control unit,so i cut the blue and yellow lines on the fan,Although it is not perfect,but it work. side effect the fan always on unless power off.

This is what I think is happening with one of mine, the fan does spin up, but there will be times it still shuts off and on repeatedly (Xbox or PC, and may happen just under an hour of use, and then randomly at random intervals). It could be a thermal pad issue as one other commenter mentioned in another thread, where the fan is properly controlled but I guess either isn't cooling it well enough, or the temperature control is defective as you state.

Dear Felipe,

unfortunately I am still stuck and unable to convert Kinect point cloud to mesh inside Grasshopper environment.

I did find tutorials in Houdini converting point cloud to mesh but how do I do the same for grasshopper.

the point cloud generated using Kinect contains ID, color, point, position. I believe converting it to mesh should not be hard with nearest point logic but how???

thanks alot Dear Martin, I agree that Firefly kinect is good at importing the point cloud to grasshopper env. but then converting these point cloud to mesh is where i am stuck. I will follow the recommendations suggested by you, Felipe and Riccardo and post the results here. thanks alot for taking time reading my thread

thank you martin for your recommendation.

it looks really powerful managing point cloud data compared to gh. I will get more in deep in it. thank you again for the suggestion

by the way could you give me your feedback on trimble x7 scanner? are they better than Artec scanners?

I've released a new version of the Open Kinect library. This library is just for access to the raw depth and RGB data. It should work with Kinect 1414 and 1473 (and other v1 kinects?) on Mac OS X with Processing 2.2.1+. The library includes all native libfreenect and libsub files and should require no separate install. I would love any help testing before I update the contributions manager.

AveragePointTracking.pde:18:0:18:0: UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/openkinect/processing/Kinect : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0UnsupportedClassVersionError: A library is using code compiled with an unsupported version of Java.

Thank you for your contributions on kinect.I need to not only get raw depth Image but also raw depth data from my kinect. Note that i am using windows 7 64 bit with kinect 1414.I googled a lot but i didnt find suitable library to do the above.

hello sos from Paris, I have an interactive sketch very well developped on OSX 10.6.8 with Processing 1.5.1, worked excellently... now my old Mac book pro has been destroyed and on my new Mac Book Air has the Sierra OSX 10.3 and the Processing 3.X gives my headache since a yearit says: more than one librairy is competing: i. e. to import org.jbox2d collision shapes points to multiple librairies:- Box 2D for processing- Fisica- PBox 2D

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