Failed to initialize sensor

[Ari Luangamath]

I've installed the Kinect SDK 1.8 with Skanect 1.8 installed, but a pop up message appears saying "failed to initialize sensor" any solution to fix this?

I'm using windows 7 64bit, gtx 960, and yes my kinect has its own power the green LED blinks on it constantly.

[Ari Luangamath]

INFO: Starting Skanect 1.8.3 (64 bits)

INFO: Configuration file: C:/Users/Aripall/AppData/Roaming/ManCTL/Skanect.ini

INFO: License configuration file: C:/Users/Aripall/AppData/Roaming/ManCTL/SkanectLicense.ini

INFO: Number of CUDA devices: 1

INFO: Device 0:  "GeForce GTX 960"  1651Mb / 2048Mb

INFO: Device 0: sm_52, 1024 cores

INFO: Device 0: Driver/Runtime ver.7.50/6.50

INFO: CUDA major: 5

INFO: CUDA GeForce GTX 960, global memory: 2048M

INFO: CUDA device specs seem ok.

INFO: Could instanciate a GPU fusion successfully.

INFO: No support for Kinect One SDK.

INFO: Initializing Kin4Win driver

INFO: Number of Kinect for Windows devices found: 1.

INFO: OpenNI2: Number of devices: 0

INFO: No support for softkinetic, skipping.

INFO: [Kinect 66e22a0] connecting

ERROR: Kinect for Windows could not initialize.

[Tobby Ryan]

On Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 12:08:51 AM UTC-5, Ari Luangamath wrote:

I've installed the Kinect SDK 1.8 with Skanect 1.8 installed, but a pop up message appears saying "failed to initialize sensor" any solution to fix this?

I'm using windows 7 64bit, gtx 960, and yes my kinect has its own power the green LED blinks on it constantly.

have you checked your control panel/system/device manager to see if all 4 parts of the kinect are working properly.

I had a bad power adapter and it kept bouncing in/out from one to 4 then back to one, etc continually. This sucked. turned out to be not enough juice.    I have had 3 adapters go bad in a year  luckily they are around 5 dollars on ebay/amazon.
if you have one device showing, then it is probably not getting power at all, but the usb connection works. hence check the power light on the break out next to the kinect plug/usb split.  if you have all 4 working properly, it should be functional.