unable to get Point Grey USB camera work in ubuntu

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Try this udev rule:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2000", GROUP="plugdev", SYMLINK+="firefly", MODE:="0666"

It'll add /dev/firefly. Regarding camera1394, we've used both the Chameleon and the Firefly with an unmodified camera1394 install.

We have an identical Firefly camera in our lab. Point Grey provides a library to interface with the camera as it does not work like a normal webcam, at least not as far as I can tell. A guy in our lab wrote a wrapper around that library which basically grabs the image data via the library and publishes it via ROS. I can try and see if I get the code in a format that others can use it. I'm not sure if we can directly distribute the library provided by Point Grey but at least the wrapper should be no problem.

There is, however, a caveat and that is that the library provided by Point Grey only works with antique versions of Ubuntu, 10.04 or something along those lines. They linked against some very dated libraries which means that newer versions of the used libraries have different symbol names.

If no one else knows of a better way to get that camera up and running I'll see what I can do on my end to make the code available.

You said that the camera uses IEEE1394, yet you posted the result of lsusb. Isn't your camera using USB? I saw in the product website that both interfaces are available. If that is the case, then neither coriander nor camera1394 should work.

In my case, the problem was with my user's groups. Although groups username and id username showed flirimaging among the others (the group that was used in the udev rules), running just groups or id showed that I didn't have that group.

If this matches your case, I know of 2 possible causes:

• You haven't logged out / logged in since the group was added.
• You were hit by a bug in lightdm: askubuntu, the bugreport itself.

Follow @AdrianPeng answer. I provide here for reference my udev rules written by the SDK config executable "flycap2-conf". It writes 40-pgr.rules

ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2000", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2001", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2002", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2003", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2004", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2005", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3000", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3001", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3004", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3005", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3006", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3007", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3008", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="300A", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="300B", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3100", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3101", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3102", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3103", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3104", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3105", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3106", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3107", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3108", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3109", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1e10", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3300", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
KERNEL=="raw1394", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
KERNEL=="video1394*", MODE="0664", GROUP="pgrimaging"
SUBSYSTEM=="firewire", GROUP="pgrimaging"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", GROUP="pgrimaging"

Notice the difference with other given udev rules firefly becomes firewire.

Furthermore I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.4 with ros-indigo-pointgrey-camera-driver. Camera is

[0]Serial: 14435635, Model: Grasshopper3 GS3-U3-23S6C, Vendor: Point Grey Research, Sensor: Sony IMX174 (1920x1200 CMOS), Resolution: 1920x1200, Color: true, Firmware Version: 2.8.3.0