green light won't stop blinking

[Greg Borenstein]

After using the kinect with various openkinect implementations happily for awhile (most recently monday), today I plugged my kinect in and the green light started blinking and I it's not showing up for Processing or Cinder.

I've tried unplugging it. Powering it on and off. Etc. No luck.

Thoughts?

-- Greg

[drew.m...@gmail.com]

Is the power supply (not USB cable) also plugged in? This one has bit
me a couple times, myself. The USB hub and motor device (which
controls the blinking LED) are bus-powered, but the camera and audio
devices won't show up without the 12VDC supply, so that seems to match
the behavior you described.

-Drew

[Greg Borenstein]

Drew -- The power's definitely plugged in.

-- Greg

[Greg Borenstein]

It's definitely a software problem. Just tried it with a second, brand new, kinect and same blinky light.

Any thoughts on debugging?

-- Greg

On Jan 19, 2011, at 12:42 PM, drew.m...@gmail.com wrote:

[Nink]

Power supply ?
Sent from my BlackBerry

[drew.m...@gmail.com]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Greg Borenstein
<greg.bo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's definitely a software problem. Just tried it with a second, brand new, kinect and same blinky light.
>
> Any thoughts on debugging?
>
> -- Greg

Which OS are you using?

When you plug in the USB port, three devices (NUI Motor, NUI Camera,
and NUI Audio) appear in System Profiler (OSX), Device Manager
(Windows), or the output of lsusb (Linux), right?

Are you using the latest sources from github [1]? If not, which
codebase are you using? If you can, try compiling the github sources
and running glview as described in [2], so we can tell if it's a core
driver problem or a wrappers problem.

Thanks,
Drew

[1] - https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/
[2] - http://openkinect.org/wiki/Getting_Started

[Greg Borenstein]

Drew --

I'm on OSX. In System Profiler I'm seeing all three of those devices.

I'm using the Processing Kinect library. I also tried it with the Cinder Kinect block. I haven't built the sources from GitHub lately, but I also didn't change anything in that regard since Monday when I was running Kinect apps fine.

I'll try pulling the sources and building from that.

-- Greg

[Greg Borenstein]

I don't actually seem to be able to build libfreenect right now due to some horrible problem installing gettext via macports on Snow Leopard.

Ugh.

-- Greg

On Jan 19, 2011, at 1:05 PM, drew.m...@gmail.com wrote:

[nomad]

hi
under linux
plugin 1) power
2) usb-cable plugin -> greenLed blinking
3) start programm -> left lenses are red and greenLed
blinking and programs are running.....
regards nomad