openni_kinect dosen't publish anything in the topics or rviz

asked 2011-10-05 00:04:49 -0500

mobadr
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updated 2016-10-24 09:01:08 -0500

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Hi, I'm very new to ROS so bare with me a bit, I've just installed Electric on Ubuntu 11.04 on an Toshiba L650 laptop (ATI VGA)

I've installed opennni_kinect using the package

As I understand all I need to do is just to connect the kinect and start the openni_camera node so I did that using "roslaunch openni_camera openni_node.launch" and that kept on doing some stuff and stopped at

so I assumed everything is ok then followed the instruction to view the images on rviz but got nothing except a status warning in the point cloud2 screen in front of Topic saying "No messages received"

I checked using rostopic hz and rostopic echo for /camera/rgb/points but there is nothing there, also the global frame status indicates the status to be ok but there is nothing showing on the screen at all

I'm I missing something or is there a conflict with ATI driver or something? is there anything else rather than roscore should be running or is there any other steps before I run the node?

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answered 2011-10-05 02:55:03 -0500

Mac

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Try running roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch; things have be re-arranged a bit in electric.

Do the messages printed to the console indicate that the device is connected?

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Thanks for your reply, unfortunately I didn't got to try it yet as I work with Kinect in the uni and I was busy with some literature review, I'll have some time tomorrow to work on the Kinect and try out the different launch file

mobadr ( 2011-10-10 22:27:33 -0500 )edit

I think you're right, I tried your suggestion and used rostopic echo to listen to rgb/image_raw and ir/image_raw and I got all those numbers running on the screen, so I think the driver is ok now, unfortunately rviz gives some new "Segmentation fault" so I can't see what those numbers are, thanks

mobadr ( 2011-10-12 01:23:34 -0500 )edit

After multiple retries I finally figured out the problem with rviz not starting, although I'm still unable to use see what I wan't in rviz but at least the openni driver does publish data in the topics, I'll just have to work on using them without using rviz

mobadr ( 2011-10-17 21:54:12 -0500 )edit

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answered 2011-10-05 01:17:50 -0500

Ivan Dryanovski

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I'm getting the same problem very often. It may or may not be related to what you're seeing, but here's my take:

My observation is that it helps to quit out of all ros processes (incl. rviz) before starting the openni launch file. Once the launch file starts, wait for a couple of seconds until the driver is fully up and running, and then start rviz. It seems that if something subscribes to the topics before the openni driver is ready, things break down.

It sometimes a couple of retries before it actually works.

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I am having these problems too. It often takes 5 to 10 tries to start up the openni-driver. It also doesnt matter for me if i use the new openni_launch or the older openni_camera launch files. It seems to be known and posted here already: https://kforge.ros.org/openni/trac/ticket/42 Hope for a fix.

Ben_S ( 2011-10-09 21:07:08 -0500 )edit

Thanks, I did tried to quit everything (Including roscore) and start over and waited for a while to make sure that the node is up and running and no other tasks are pending or in processes

mobadr ( 2011-10-10 22:18:52 -0500 )edit

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Thanks Ben_S for indicating that the launch file itself is the problem, for I feared that there might be some hardware incompatibility on my laptop, I'll try modifying the launch file or using older version

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answered 2011-10-12 01:46:23 -0500

John Hoare

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updated 2011-10-12 04:53:15 -0500

I've had this problem on a different laptop and the issue is that the Kinect does not work on any of the machine's USB3.0 ports, and only on the (single) USB 2.0 Port. If your machine has USB 3.0 ports try to see if it has a USB 2.0 port that you can use.

The kinect (on my system at least) does show up under the USB3.0 ports, but no data will stream. When using the USB2.0 ports, however, the kinect will show up and successfully stream data.

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I have encountered the USB2/3 problem as well. However, I believe the question refers to the situation when the device is recognized correctly, but the driver fails to initialize the data stream.

Ivan Dryanovski ( 2011-10-12 03:01:21 -0500 )edit

Yes device recognized, I know cause it gave an error and I found out that I forgot to plug Kinect's power, when I did so it showed some message indicating detecting Kinect, but when I try the openni_camera launch file nothing is published in topics, but openni_launch seems to work and do same tasks

mobadr ( 2011-10-12 04:41:38 -0500 )edit

I've edited it in the original answer, but for my situation at least, the kinect will show up on both USB 2/3 ports, but will only stream data on the USB2 port.

John Hoare ( 2011-10-12 04:54:11 -0500 )edit

Ok, my laptop don't have usb3, thanks for the info

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answered 2011-10-12 01:12:51 -0500

Henning Deeken

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Hi there!

I encounter the same problems with my kinect and the openni_kinect stack.

When I found this thread i tried roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch, here's what my console says:

core service [/rosout] found
process[camera_nodelet_manager-1]: started with pid [15384]
process[camera/driver-2]: started with pid [15385]
process[camera/rgb/rectify_mono-3]: started with pid [15428]
process[camera/rgb/rectify_color-4]: started with pid [15442]
process[camera/ir/rectify_ir-5]: started with pid [15462]
process[camera/depth/rectify_depth-6]: started with pid [15479]
process[camera/depth/metric_rect-7]: started with pid [15499]
process[camera/depth/metric-8]: started with pid [15516]
process[camera/depth/disparity-9]: started with pid [15536]
process[camera/depth/points-10]: started with pid [15553]
process[camera/register_depth_rgb-11]: started with pid [15573]
process[camera/depth_registered/rectify_depth-12]: started with pid [15587]
process[camera/depth_registered/metric_rect-13]: started with pid [15601]
process[camera/depth_registered/metric-14]: started with pid [15615]
process[camera/depth_registered/disparity-15]: started with pid [15629]
process[camera/points_xyzrgb_depth_rgb-16]: started with pid [15643]
process[camera_base_link-17]: started with pid [15657]
process[camera_base_link1-18]: started with pid [15671]
[ INFO] [1318423547.968519485]: Number devices connected: 1
[ INFO] [1318423547.968680614]: 1. device on bus 001:14 is a Xbox NUI Camera (2ae) from Microsoft (45e) with serial id 'A00364910353049A'
[ INFO] [1318423547.970240665]: Searching for device with index = 1
[ INFO] [1318423548.023895434]: Opened 'Xbox NUI Camera' on bus 1:14 with serial number 'A00364910353049A'
[ INFO] [1318423548.047911128]: rgb_frame_id = '/camera_rgb_optical_frame' 
[ INFO] [1318423548.047960898]: depth_frame_id = '/camera_depth_optical_frame' 
[ INFO] [1318423548.052857231]: using default calibration URL
[ INFO] [1318423548.052945376]: camera calibration URL: file:///home/student/h/hdeeken/.ros/camera_info/rgb_A00364910353049A.yaml
[ERROR] [1318423548.053280770]: Unable to open camera calibration file [/home/student/h/hdeeken/.ros/camera_info/rgb_A00364910353049A.yaml]
[ WARN] [1318423548.053333713]: Camera calibration file /home/student/h/hdeeken/.ros/camera_info/rgb_A00364910353049A.yaml not found.
[ INFO] [1318423548.054645480]: using default calibration URL
[ INFO] [1318423548.054696071]: camera calibration URL: file:///home/student/h/hdeeken/.ros/camera_info/depth_A00364910353049A.yaml
[ERROR] [1318423548.054983437]: Unable to open camera calibration file [/home/student/h/hdeeken/.ros/camera_info/depth_A00364910353049A.yaml]
[ WARN] [1318423548.055043961]: Camera calibration file /home/student/h/hdeeken/.ros/camera_info/depth_A00364910353049A.yaml not found.
[ WARN] [1318423548.056337041]: Using default parameters for RGB camera calibration.
[ WARN] [1318423548.056391186]: Using default parameters for IR camera calibration.
process[camera_base_link2-19]: started with pid [15692]
process[camera_base_link3-20]: started with pid [15809]
[ERROR] [1318423551.048566026]: Tried to advertise a service that is already advertised in this node [/camera/depth_registered/image_rect_raw/compressed/set_parameters]
[ERROR] [1318423551.058408518]: Tried to advertise a service that is already advertised in this node [/camera/depth_registered/image_rect_raw/theora/set_parameters]

So it seems as if the device is recognized and the frames seem to be set up as well - I can adress all topics via rviz - but there are no msgs published via the topics.

Maybe this helps to find what's going wrong! ;)

Greetings, Henning

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Have you tried restarting the node some times? I started using a second bash with rostopic hz /camera/depth_registered/points and keep restarting openni until messages arrive. Often takes 5-10 tries...

Ben_S ( 2011-10-12 01:40:29 -0500 )edit

in rviz, set the fixed frame to something like /openni_rgb_optical_frame

Daniel Canelhas ( 2011-10-13 09:03:31 -0500 )edit

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answered 2011-10-22 15:33:35 -0500

asrinivasan31
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Hi:

I am encountering the same problems as Henning's post with the error in configuration file as well as "tried to advertise service that is already advertised in this node". As a result, my rviz shows that for the pointcloud2 display the topics are not publishing any messages. Has anyone successfully resolved this issue? Restarting the driver X # of times cannot possibly be the only way... I am running Ubuntu 11.04 with rose electric and my USB ports are 2.0.

Thanks in advance

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I get the same two "tried to advertise service" errors, yet there is still messages in the topics and I get the rough coloured point cloud in rviz, are you using openni_camera or openni_launch?? only openni_launch works with me

mobadr ( 2011-10-25 00:27:22 -0500 )edit

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answered 2011-10-28 09:07:36 -0500

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updated 2011-10-31 02:23:55 -0500

Update:

Now I can see the image from the camera display by adding the topic /camera/rgb/image_color topic to rviz using openni_launch openni.launch which I couldn't do before. However, the topics regarding point cloud 2 display don't ever get published.

Second Update: The point cloud2 display has started working. I don't know how (maybe it was the ros updates that I did yesterday), but I consistently can get them to display except now, rviz freezes and I get the following error repeatedly

Image messages received:      0
CameraInfo messages received: 84
Synchronized pairs:           0
Image messages received:      0
CameraInfo messages received: 92
Synchronized pairs:           0

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answered 2011-10-27 01:04:20 -0500

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updated 2011-10-27 01:04:57 -0500

So I ran openni_camera openni_node.launch and changed some settings in rviz to publish the raw image topic and I saw some point clouds, although it didn't look very good. I wanted to try tinkering around the settings some more, but I did a ros update and now I can't open anything! Anyone else get this error:

/opt/ros/electric/stacks/nodelet_core/nodelet/bin/nodelet: error while loading shared libraries: libtinyxml.so.2.5.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

this is very frustrating.....

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The libtinyxml problem has hit a lot of people (including me), and has little to do with rviz. See http://answers.ros.org/question/2593/error-while-loading-shared-libraries for details.

Mac ( 2011-10-28 01:50:28 -0500 )edit

Yea I fixed the xml problem.

asrinivasan31 ( 2011-10-28 09:03:18 -0500 )edit

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answered 2011-10-19 19:16:17 -0500

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using openni_launch openni.launch doesnt solve the problem..

i still observe the same as pointed out by ivan: if i wait long enough (20-30 sec), i can sometimes see data on the topics. otherwise, the node doesn't work properly and sends nothing.

i run ubuntu 10.10 with a 2.6.35 kernel and electric packages (updated today). i'm using an xtion live camera.

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I don't know what you mean by "using openni_launch openni.launch doesnt solve the problem", in my case it mostly worked, I'm still having some trouble with rviz but at least the drivers publish the messages on the topics and I can make use of them with my own code or view it on image_view

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