I have a question about the ARCx robot skill "Camera Source (USB)" in my ARC project. I'm using a USB camera connected to the PC (not an EZB). Does this robot skill allow you to capture and save individual still images, or is it limited to continuous video/streaming only?
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USB Camera Still Image Capture
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EZ-B V4
by EZ-Robot
EZ-B v4 with Synthiam ARCx controls servos, sensors, camera and audio over Wi-Fi or USB serial, no firmware needed.
Wi-Fi / USB
Servos
24
Camera
Audio
UART
3
I2C
ADC
8
Digital
24
You can record video using the Video Recorder robot skill. There is currently no snapshot-saving robot skill yet. ARCx is quite new, and we're building robot skills as we go - because you requested it, we'll add it higher on the list.
Remember that ARC and ARCx are entirely different software platforms. While they share a similar name, they are not the same application. ARCx is not an ARC v2, for example. What you will find is that ARCx robot skills combine differently than ARC. For example, a camera robot skill is just that... a camera. It does nothing more than feed a stream of images into the video capture service. Other robot skills, such as Face Tracking or Object Tracking, can use that video source feed.
In your case, a "snapshot" robot skill will be created that captures and saves a JPG/PNG image from a video feed.
Here it is for ya... Read the manual; this ain't the image capture you're used to.