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Change Release Notes
This is a small release with one new feature for the camera control
- new Camera Variable: $IsCameraActive which returns the status of the camera. Can be configured to a custom variable name in the camera config dialog
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| Feature | ARC FREE |
ARC PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Get ARC for Free | View Plans | |
| Usage | Personal DIY Education |
Personal DIY Education Business |
| Early access to new features & fixes | Yes | |
| Simultaneous microcontroller connections* | 1 | 255 |
| Robot skills* | 20 | Unlimited |
| Skill Store plugins* | 1 | Unlimited |
| Cognitive services usage** | 10/day | 6,000/day |
| Auto-positions gait actions* | 40 | Unlimited |
| Speech recongition phrases* | 10 | Unlimited |
| Camera devices* | 1 | Unlimited |
| Vision resolution | max 320x240 | Unlimited |
| Interface builder* | 2 | Unlimited |
| Cloud project size | 128 MB | |
| Cloud project revision history | Yes | |
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* Per robot project
** 1,000 per cognitive type (vision recognition, speech recognition, face detection, sentiment, text recognition, emotion detection, azure text to speech)
** 1,000 per cognitive type (vision recognition, speech recognition, face detection, sentiment, text recognition, emotion detection, azure text to speech)
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Yes, I have the latest version.
Are you opening an existing project with a camera in it, or adding the camera to a new project? I am seeing it when I open my existing project.
If you think it might be project related, mine is on the cloud. name is "myroli" (original, I know) and it is tagged as rovers, incomplete.
I can test later today on different computers. The one I was doing most of the testing on is Windows 7 Professional (64 bit), but I can try on my Windows 8.1 tablet later.
Alan
I confirmed that opening my existing project on Windows 8.1 has the same issue. Adding a new camera to a new project, all the Camera variables do appear, but when I save that project, stop ARC, restart ARC and load that project, no Camera variables appear until the first time I successfully start the camera for that session.
While I was testing, you released version 2014.11.18.00 so I installed it and re-tested with the same results.
Alan