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Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

berg — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:50:25 -0000

You can do:
sudo modprobe gspca_kinect
sudo modprobe gspca_main
but will then loose freenectivity.

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

Pratik Anand — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:00:48 -0000

You have to disconnect and then reconnect the usb of kinect. It be remounted as /dev/video0 (in my case)

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

Young Zig Zag — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 21:24:12 -0000

I am currently having this issue. Did you ever resolve it?

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

ZB — Wed, 07 May 2014 01:04:45 -0000

Thanks bud, this was great - I still run into the issue of not being able to open though on Fedora 19

Re: Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection

Kala Swaminathan — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:49:08 -0000

from CVtypes import cv

ImportError: No module named CVtypes

pls help me..

Re: Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection

rajat saxena — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 04:19:05 -0000

the cv.waitKey() function has a bug, to make it correct change it to cv.waitKey() % 0xFF

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

Fatfreddy — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 04:45:18 -0000

Same problem, can't open it as regular video device, as dev/ video1 or video0

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

Jyeo — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 19:03:32 -0000

I'm getting the same issue, anyone have any suggestions?

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

Daneel Ellinggton — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 06:16:43 -0000

i've got this issue too, what can i do ?

Re: Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection

shrikant — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 06:59:13 -0000

i need depth mapping code in python opencv.........please help

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

jeremy_blair — Sat, 25 May 2013 14:22:02 -0000

Nice tutorial, but I'm getting this message when I try to do freenect-glview

Kinect camera test

Number of devices found: 1

send_cmd: Bad magic 00 dc

freenect_fetch_zero_plane_info: send_cmd read -1 bytes (expected 322)

freenect_camera_init(): Failed to fetch zero plane info for device

Could not open device

Not quite sure what it means, any help would be appreciated.

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

Carl Nobile — Wed, 08 May 2013 11:07:40 -0000

I have just done an update to my Ubuntu 12.04 and the Kinect stopped working. I had compiled my own opencv and libfreenect, so I uninstalled them and put on the distribution versions and the same issue persists. Has anybody run into this problem?

When I run glview I now get:

$ glview
Kinect camera test
Number of devices found: 1
Could not open motor: -3
Could not open device

~Carl

Re: Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection

Amol — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:42:38 -0000

How to use it in C#

Re: Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection

margarita — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:12:23 -0000

how I do to take a snapshot with python and opencv?

Re: Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection

Reidel Martin-Raul — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:14:31 -0000

Hello i was wondering if you could help me out a bit with a problem... i would like to make a facial recognition software for my laptop and i dont really now were to start from please it would mean a lot to me u could send me a message on raolboss@yahoo.com

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

Alex M. — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 18:04:54 -0000

very nice tutorial.
any ideas why after removing both gspca modules, the freenect-glview demo did NOT work giving the "Could not open device" error? I am on Ubuntu 12.04

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

dirtydevil — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:26:06 -0000

Hi, Thanks for such a detailed post for Kinect Beginners.

Though my freenect demos are working but on trying lsmod | grep gspca , I am not getting any gspca_kinect or anything. Can you tell me please why I am not getting this. Plus I am getting only one /dev/video0 which is of my integrated Webcam . I am not getting any file for kinect like /dev/video1 . I think without it I can't use openCV or any other processing. Thanks for help in advance. Please Do reply ASAP.

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

Rick — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:43:34 -0000

Thanks for the tip on gspca_kinect - I had the same problem with 12.04, and your advice
resolved the issue. Real time saver - thanks!

Re: Belgian CHI Papers

Jo Vermeulen — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:15:59 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Belgian CHI Papers

Jo Vermeulen — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:17:12 -0000

Oops, that's right! I've fixed it now. Any idea where you can find the CHI 2012 acceptance rate and the number of submissions?

Re: Belgian CHI Papers

Steven — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:01:02 -0000

"(CHI 2012 has an overal acceptance rate of 23%: 2,930 papers were accepted out of 12,583 submissions)."
This is the total number of all CHI papers rather than those accepted to CHI2012, not the one accepted to the 2012 conference.

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

Jo Vermeulen — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 05:22:38 -0000

By learning from others and by reading the built-in documentation (e.g., manpages), I guess. A more detailed answer might be a good idea for a next blog post ;)

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

Alex Wallar — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:20:12 -0000

Hey man,
This post was super useful! I have been bugged by this disappointment for days but now everything seems to work :D
How did you get so good at using Linux, is there somewhere I should start?

Re: Fun with Python, OpenCV and face detection

ARK — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:30:50 -0000

Hi, I have started a new blog on new opencv python module, cv2. This module is quite fast compared to old. visit : www.opencvpython.blogspot.com

Re: Getting up and running with the Kinect in Ubuntu 12.04

Jo Vermeulen — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:48:35 -0000

Indeed. I also have to run the libfreenect demos as root to be able to use the Kinect. I guess that's because the demo programs need to have the right permissions to be able to remove the gspca kernel module automatically.