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ros-drivers / axis_camera

Contains basic Python drivers for accessing an Axis camera's MJPG stream. Also provides control for PTZ cameras.

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PTZ Processing Speed #36

Closed skelly32 closed 9 years ago

skelly32 commented 9 years ago

Is there a way to force the PTZ operation to happen more smoothly? I wrote my own teleop procedure for the camera, and currently it seems to execute a pan or tilt operation once every second to a few seconds. It also is buffering commands a bit even though the subscribed queue size is 1 (from axis_ptz.py), so I'm guessing the camera is imposing some buffer. Is this slow delay a function of the camera hardware or the web interface used to send commands?

Thanks!

awesomebytes commented 9 years ago

I believe the web interface makes it a bit slow, "many" steps are involved from sending a command until it gets executed in the camera PTZ. If you find any way on making this faster I'll be glad of merging a pull request or even taking a look at it myself.