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Hi,
A couple of questions. Has anyone been able to run 2 cameras at one time?
I would like to use one camera fro EZ Face and the other for whatever...
Has anyone been able to come up with a way to recognize sound... maybe an alarm or breaking glass?
I have a glass breakage sensor I may use but I would like to be able have the robot recognize sounds also.
I guess EZ face still can only recognize faces which is working great and is great by itself, but how about objects?
Thanks for any input!
As Alan said, yes but they need to be different. If Windows sees them both as the same device name (i.e. "Wireless Video Camera") it causes problems in ARC. I had opened a topic about this a while back and it was to be added on to the to do list.
It may be possible to do if you use a different driver which sets the camera's name as something else or if you can edit the driver to do that. It's something I started looking in to but it wasn't a necessity for me so I didn't spend too long on it.
Rich,
ok thanks.. that is the problem they are both name the same. 2 eyes .. same cameras.
Many releases ago I had modified ARC to use the same camera models if there were more than one connected. Perhaps something has changed to prevent that - i'll look into it for you.
This is an interesting problem (2 camera devices with the same name). I'm researching it myself now.
Are you sure that there is not two video devices with the same name in ARC in the device list?
I just tested with 2 cameras that are the same driver and they both show up. They have the same name of course, but they're different devices. I am able to use 2 cameras with the same driver - but having to select the different one for each CAmera Control
If memory serves me correctly, both cameras would show up with the same name but running 2 camera controls and selecting each camera caused problems. Both had the same name (both were the V3 camera from the complete kit) of "Wireless Video Device" in the ARC Camera Control.
I can't say for sure if the problem was ever fixed or not, I thought it had been but may have been mistaken since shortly after the issue I scrapped the whole 2 camera idea since it didn't add much to the project.
This was my topic, if I get chance I'll check through the release notes of updates shortly after the topic date which should point us in the right direction.
It works for my cameras that I tested with, both are USB cameras which are the same make and model (Microsoft LifeCam) - maybe the cameras have an issue in its driver. Or if they are wireless cameras that there is interference with each other...
Oh geez, and I just realized that I should mention - our Office Cams are ran with the EZ-SDK and connect to 2 of the same cameras, the third camera of the Office Cam is a different model.