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I had troubles with the permissions on the kinect on my TK1 board until I installed the libopenni-sensor-primesense-dev package, which includes the proper udev rules to set the device permissions.

Alternately, you could probably set up /etc/udev/rules.d/40-kinect.rules with the following contents:

# PrimeSense Devices
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0200", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0300", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0400", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0500", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0600", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0601", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"

#--avin mod--
# Kinect
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02ae", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02ad", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="audio"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02b0", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02be", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="audio"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02bf", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"

I had troubles with the permissions on the kinect on my TK1 board until I installed the libopenni-sensor-primesense-dev package, which includes the proper udev rules to set the device permissions.

Alternately, you could probably set up /etc/udev/rules.d/40-kinect.rules with the following contents:

# PrimeSense Devices
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0200", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0300", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0400", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0500", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0600", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0601", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"

#--avin mod--
# Kinect
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02ae", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02ad", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="audio"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02b0", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02be", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="audio"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02bf", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"

EDIT:

It looks like the version of libfreenect that is used by the ROS libfreenect package doesn't have support for the Kinect4Windows. It looks like the ROS package is using version d1d19df8, while Kinect4Windows support was added in version 3ef82585, which is part of the 0.2.0 release that it available on Ubuntu Trusty.

It would probably be a good idea to file a ticket on the libfreenect bug tracker asking them to update to a newer version of lbfreenect.

I had troubles with the permissions on the kinect on my TK1 board until I installed the libopenni-sensor-primesense-dev package, which includes the proper udev rules to set the device permissions.

Alternately, you could probably set up /etc/udev/rules.d/40-kinect.rules with the following contents:

# PrimeSense Devices SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0200", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0300", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0400", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0500", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0600", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="0601", ATTR{idVendor}=="1d27", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video" #--avin mod-- # Kinect SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02ae", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02ad", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="audio" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02b0", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02be", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="audio" SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="02bf", ATTR{idVendor}=="045e", MODE:="0666", OWNER:="root", GROUP:="video"

EDIT:

It looks like the version of libfreenect that is ~~used by~~ included in ROS is currently too old to support the ROS libfreenect package doesn't have support for the Kinect4Windows. It looks like the ROS package is using version d1d19df8, while Kinect4Windows support was added in version 3ef82585, which is part of the 0.2.0 release that it available on Ubuntu Trusty.Kinect4Windows.

~~It would probably be a good idea to file a ticket on the libfreenect bug tracker asking them to update to a newer version of lbfreenect.~~There is an open ticket about this.