Hi Guys, I'm really stuck with getting the Kinect for windows working on my linux laptop running ROS Kinetic with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I've downloaded 'freenect2' drivers and got the test stream working from this link fine. https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect2 However, my aim is to use skeletal tracking. I found a ROS package http://wiki.ros.org/openni_tracker and installed this as well opennicamera and opennilaunch. Whenever I try to run roslaunch opennilaunch openni.launch i get an error message saying it cannot find the device 'no device connected' despite the kinect being plugged into the identical usb port as before and powered on. with the command lsusb three Microsoft Corp connections appear and the white light on the adapter of the Kinect is powered up. Whenever I try to run 'rosrun opennitracker openni_tracker' with roscore it gives Cannot Launch node of this type ! error message. Is this a lost cause on Ubuntu Kinetic?

N.B. I tried downloading the KInectSensor avin2 drivers and installed them with the install.sh command. I also installed Nite v1.5 and installed it with the install.sh command. None of these make any difference. I also tried openni2_tracker but this brings up the same 'no devices connected!'

Any help would be really appreciated.