Blackfly BFS-U3-04S2C-CS - No Cameras Detected

[civerachb-cpr]

I'm working on a robot with 2x Blackfly BFS-U3-04S2C-CS cameras connected to it, but the driver is not detecting either of them.

Running rosrun pointgrey_camera_driver list_cameras just prints:

No PointGrey cameras detected on this computer.

Note that you may need to restart udev and replug your camera, eg: sudo service udev restart

I've modified the pointgrey udev rules to add the attributes for this camera: ATTR{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTR{idProduct}=="4000", MODE="0666", GROUP="pgrimaging" based on the output of udevadm info:

$udevadm info --attribute-walk /dev/bus/usb/004/002

looking at device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb4/4-1': KERNEL=="4-1" SUBSYSTEM=="usb" DRIVER=="usb" ATTR{authorized}=="1" ATTR{avoid_reset_quirk}=="0" ATTR{bConfigurationValue}=="1" ATTR{bDeviceClass}=="ef" ATTR{bDeviceProtocol}=="01" ATTR{bDeviceSubClass}=="02" ATTR{bMaxPacketSize0}=="9" ATTR{bMaxPower}=="896mA" ATTR{bNumConfigurations}=="1" ATTR{bNumInterfaces}==" 3" ATTR{bcdDevice}=="0000" ATTR{bmAttributes}=="80" ATTR{busnum}=="4" ATTR{configuration}=="" ATTR{devnum}=="2" ATTR{devpath}=="1" ATTR{idProduct}=="4000" ATTR{idVendor}=="1e10" ATTR{ltm_capable}=="no" ATTR{manufacturer}=="FLIR" ATTR{maxchild}=="0" ATTR{product}=="Blackfly S BFS-U3-04S2C" ATTR{quirks}=="0x0" ATTR{removable}=="removable" ATTR{serial}=="0136489B" ATTR{speed}=="5000" ATTR{urbnum}=="15" ATTR{version}==" 3.10"

looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb4': KERNELS=="usb4" SUBSYSTEMS=="usb" DRIVERS=="usb" ATTRS{authorized}=="1" ATTRS{authorized_default}=="1" ATTRS{avoid_reset_quirk}=="0" ATTRS{bConfigurationValue}=="1" ATTRS{bDeviceClass}=="09" ATTRS{bDeviceProtocol}=="03" ATTRS{bDeviceSubClass}=="00" ATTRS{bMaxPacketSize0}=="9" ATTRS{bMaxPower}=="0mA" ATTRS{bNumConfigurations}=="1" ATTRS{bNumInterfaces}==" 1" ATTRS{bcdDevice}=="0415" ATTRS{bmAttributes}=="e0" ATTRS{busnum}=="4" ATTRS{configuration}=="" ATTRS{devnum}=="1" ATTRS{devpath}=="0" ATTRS{idProduct}=="0003" ATTRS{idVendor}=="1d6b" ATTRS{interface_authorized_default}=="1" ATTRS{ltm_capable}=="yes" ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Linux 4.15.0-115-generic xhci-hcd" ATTRS{maxchild}=="6" ATTRS{product}=="xHCI Host Controller" ATTRS{quirks}=="0x0" ATTRS{removable}=="unknown" ATTRS{serial}=="0000:00:14.0" ATTRS{speed}=="5000" ATTRS{urbnum}=="58" ATTRS{version}==" 3.00"

looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0': KERNELS=="0000:00:14.0" SUBSYSTEMS=="pci" DRIVERS=="xhci_hcd" ATTRS{broken_parity_status}=="0" ATTRS{class}=="0x0c0330" ATTRS{consistent_dma_mask_bits}=="64" ATTRS{d3cold_allowed}=="1" ATTRS{device}=="0x8c31" ATTRS{dma_mask_bits}=="64" ATTRS{driver_override}=="(null)" ATTRS{enable}=="1" ATTRS{irq}=="29" ATTRS{local_cpulist}=="0-3" ATTRS{local_cpus}=="f" ATTRS{msi_bus}=="1" ATTRS{numa_node}=="-1" ATTRS{revision}=="0x05" ATTRS{subsystem_device}=="0x8c31" ATTRS{subsystem_vendor}=="0x8086" ATTRS{vendor}=="0x8086"

looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00': KERNELS=="pci0000:00" SUBSYSTEMS=="" DRIVERS==""

Adding a SYMLINK+=[...] shows that the rule is being triggered.

Possibly related (possibly not?) when I try to run the driver, specifying the serial numbers for the left & right cameras shows that the serial numbers are being truncated:

[ERROR] [1600872764.137690069]: Reconfigure Callback failed with error: PointGreyCamera::connect Could not find camera with serial number: 1364217. Is that camera plugged in? | FlyCapture2::ErrorType 19 Failed to get the camera from the serial number. [ERROR] [1600872764.449145360]: Reconfigure Callback failed with error: PointGreyCamera::connect Could not find camera with serial number: 136489. Is that camera plugged in? | FlyCapture2::ErrorType 19 Failed to get the camera from the serial number.

but in my launch file I have:

with those args being passed to the camera nodelets' serial parameters. The leading 0s are being stripped off, as is the trailing B on the left camera's serial number. I'm not too worried about the leading 0s, but the trailing B seems important.

I'm not sure how to proceed from here. Any guidance or suggestions would be appreciated.

[tonybaltovski]

@civerachb-cpr those are Blackfly S cameras, they need to use the flir_camera_driver.

[civerachb-cpr]

Ah, good to know!

[Hateley123]

I am getting this error: No PointGrey cameras detected on this computer.

Note that you may need to restart udev and replug your camera, eg: sudo service udev restart

I have checked the udev rules and they are correct, and I have downloaded the flir_camera_driver, but I am still getting the same error. is there anythng additionalo do to make it work?