Welcome to Synthiam!

The easiest way to program the most powerful robots. Use technologies by leading industry experts. ARC is a free-to-use robot programming software that makes servo automation, computer vision, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence easy.

Get Started

ARC Pro

Upgrade to ARC Pro

Get access to the latest features and updates with ARC Early Access edition. You'll have everything that's needed to unleash your robot's potential!

AI Support Bot
Related Content
Synthiam
Based on your post activity, we found some content that may be interesting to you. Explore these other tutorials and community conversations.
United Kingdom
#1  
You can get an IP Cam to work with EZ Robot if it comes with Windows drivers and so appears as another device. I got my IPhone to work using the EpoCam app however it wasn't much good as the IPhone camera resolution is too high so the pic looks zoomed in! I am trying another camera but no widows drivers as yet
#2  
I have worked with this a bit. What is needed is a bridging adapter that can pull in a video stream from the ip cam and bridge it over to be used as a windows video device.

Below is an IP Camera Adapter that I found (not sure if this is the same one being discussed or not). I tried it but could not get it to work as this adapter only works with MJPG or static images which my camera does not. I can pull the video stream from my IP camera using VLC Media player. I just need to find an adapter that will work. Another app out there is ANY Webcam that I have heard some folks have gotten to do what I am looking for...but still have not had any luck.

Hope this helps a little with others trying to integrate ip cams to ARC.

IP Camera Adapter

AnyWebCAM


v/r

Kevin
Canada
#3  
J_snake,
I ordered a similar camera off ebay a couple of weeks back. It should have cleared customs by now so I'm expecting it the next day or two. The EZB IDE should still recognize it as a valid camera (hoping) but you won't have access to the tilt/pan features. Based on the actual cam (there are many clones out there) it should ship with an OCX control that you can embed within a form. This of course means utilizing the sdk over the EZB IDE. Secondly at this stage I can't say what functionality is embedded within the control. I purchased the camera as an experiment.

I'm looking to do some image processing using vb.net (or c#) and sql so at this stage I am uncertain whether I'll be utilizing the EZB camera routines or something else. Either way, I may have some additional answers later in the week, time permitting. I can't test with the EZB board for a while yet as I'm at bottom of the shipping list (still flagged as new order). Hopefully my order will clear within the next couple of weeks.
Login to post a comment