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camera_prosilica: setting whitebalance_red/blue fails

asked 2011-08-09 20:19:27 -0600

Daniel Eberli
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Hi there

I've a fresh install of ROS (desktop-full) with camera drivers. I successfully can stream from a Prosilica GC655C and set/get parameters with, e.g., dynamic_reconfigure. The only parameter I can't set is 'whitebalance_red' and 'whitebalance_blue'. Of course, 'auto_whitebalance' is set to off.

setting the whitebalance values directly with the SampleViewer it works, but not trough ROS. Even setting the parameter by rosparam doesn't work.

Do you have an idea how to make it work?

Best, Dani

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answered 2011-08-10 04:42:16 -0600

Daniel Eberli
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updated 2011-08-24 22:49:10 -0600

I found the solution to the problem:

in the prosilica library (prosilica.cpp) in function Camera::setWhiteBalance the test, whether manual whitebalance is available

PvAttrIsAvailable(handle_, "WhitebalValueBlue")

returns 0 (ePvErrSuccess) if manual whitebalance for blue is available. since the whitebal check is

if (isauto == Manual && PvAttrIsAvailable(handle_, "WhitebalValueBlue"))

it will FAIL if the PvAttrIsAvailable returns ePvErrSuccess.

if (isauto == Manual && ePvErrSuccess == PvAttrIsAvailable(handle_, "WhitebalValueBlue"))

will solve the problem.

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Thanks Daniel. Could you please open a ticket (go to http://www.ros.org/wiki/camera_drivers and click the "report bugs" link at the bottom) to make sure this issue doesn't get lost.

Patrick Mihelich ( 2011-08-11 10:12:25 -0600 )edit

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