DJ broke V1 support when trying to add support for V2. It is on his very long todo list to get fixed, but EZ-B stuff has a higher priority than 3rd party stuff.

Someone may be able to post an earlier version of ARC for you. I only keep one version back, so can't be of assistance.

Alan

Ohhh I am doing project with that Rover V1 and i seriously in need i cannt find anywhere if anyone can give me the old version i will be very very thankful

This is confusing. I just received my Roli with Brookstone Rover v1 camera and it doesn't work at all. And there is a v2 camera now that does work?

And the answer is that in upgrading ARC to work with v2, someone broke it so it won't work with v1. But the version of ARC that works with v1 is not available.

This is unbelievable, shipping stuff that doesn't work knowing that there is no workaround. Please tell me this isn't so.

@dn... What? Roli is an Ez Robot product and works great with it's camera. The Brookstone Rover is not made nor sold by ez robot... The software that worked with it was free... Dude, you can't have everything for free now can you?... About the camera. What camera are you talking about?... Roli comes with the eb4 camera... I think you refer to it as V2 camera... Version one worked with the ezb3 and connected to your pc via a Bluetooth dongle... The ezb4 camera plugs directly into the EZB4 board...

Huh?

Roli works 100% with current software.

Brookstone Rover is a 3rd party robot. EZ-Robot is under no particular obligation to support 3rd party devices, and will fix it if and when they have time to handle low priority issues like supporting other companies products. If Brookstone published an SDK instead of forcing developers to reverse engineer if they want to use non Brookstone software this wouldn't be an issue. Complain to Brookstone about being closed source and difficult to work with.

Alan

@DN, as others have said - ez-robot does not sell or manufacture the Brookstone Rover. The Brookstone Rover is made by Brookstone and can be found in the Brookstone Store. The Brookstone Rover looks like this..

You have also mentioned Roli in the same sentence. The Roli rover is made by ezrobot and sold in our store, as well as other retails. The Roli rover has no issues with ARC software. The ARC software was made for the Roli robot. There are getting started tutorials on the LEARN section for getting started with your Roli robot. I recommend pressing the LEARN button from the top of this website and following the tutorials.

Additionally, when you load the ARC software, there is a prompt asking if you would like to view the tutorials. There is the option to "do not show again", which you may have pushed. I do not recommend disabling features that are designed to help you Either way, the tutorials can be found by pressing the LEARN button from the top of this website. Scroll to the top of the website after reading this message and press the LEARN menu option.

For reference, here is a photo for the Roli robot...

If you can tell us which of those two robots you have, it will be easier to help you

I didn't order any 3rd party parts. The Roli and camera came in the same box and looks exactly like the picture above with arms and grippers that work just fine. The blue LED is on steady. When I try to start the camera it shows this: EZB 0: EZB 1: EZB 2: EZB 3: EZB 4: 12/21/2014 2:40 PM - TCP Server stopped 12/21/2014 2:40 PM - TCP Server stopped 12/21/2014 2:40 PM - TCP Server stopped 12/21/2014 2:40 PM - TCP Server stopped 12/21/2014 2:40 PM - TCP Server stopped 12/21/2014 2:41 PM - Camera Initialized: Brookstone Rover v1 @ 320x240 12/21/2014 2:41 PM - Object Recognition loaded. 12/21/2014 2:41 PM - TCP Server stopped 12/21/2014 2:41 PM - TCP Server stopped 12/21/2014 2:41 PM - TCP Server stopped 12/21/2014 2:41 PM - TCP Server stopped 12/21/2014 2:41 PM - TCP Server stopped 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - Camera Disabled 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - Camera Disabled 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - Attempting connection on 192.168.1.1:23 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - Connected to 192.168.1.1:23 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - EZ-B reports EZ-B v4 OS 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - Welcome to EZ-B v4 Beta! 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - EZ-B v4 ID: 87-51-0-0-47-255-56-53-59-37-37-37 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - Connected 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - Setting battery monitor voltage: 6.6 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - Setting battery protection: True 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - Setting i2c rate: 100000 12/21/2014 2:42 PM - Camera Initialized: Brookstone Rover v1 @ 320x240 12/21/2014 2:43 PM - Camera Disabled 12/21/2014 2:43 PM - Camera Initialized: Brookstone Rover v1 @ 320x240 12/21/2014 2:44 PM - Camera Disabled 12/21/2014 2:44 PM - Camera Disabled 12/21/2014 2:44 PM - Camera Disabled 12/21/2014 2:44 PM - Camera Initialized: Brookstone Rover v1 @ 320x240

The only choice in the Video Device panel is "Brookstone Rover v1". There are no other choices. There is no drop-down when I click it. The 320x240 is also fixed and can't be changed. Clicking on 'Refresh List' does not add any more choices. Clicking the Start and Stop buttons doesn't change any choices. Nowhere can I find any other choices than Brookstone Rover v1.

I have read all the tutorials, 'dude' and everything else is working. All the dances and travel work fine. I don't have a dongle and I paid for every component directly from EZ-Robot. I don't expect anything for free, 'dude'.

Here is my Camera panel.

@DN... have you set up your ezb yet? Is it in client mode or WP mode?... have you followed all the online tutorials on how to connect your ezb to your network and how to set up your Roli?....

The camera uses the same IP address as your ezb by the way....

It doesn't work right out of the box, there is some set up to be done first... It does work though. I personally have 7 ezb4s and 5 cameras all working perfectly... I promise you it really does work... Check out the tutorials...