Getting data from flex13 cameras
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 12:01 am
Hi all,
I will start with saying that I am new to this world and as such might be missunderstanding some very basic things, so please correct me if I am way off the mark on things.
Recently my workplace found 4 old flex 13 cameras with an optihub 2 that haven't been used in a while and wanted to start a project tracking drones with them. Other than the cameras and hubs existance I don't have a clue of anything that has to do with them.
Basically as mentioned I want to be able to track drones, get the data from them in order to get my drones location and be able to reprogram the drone. I do not need it for graphical work or animations or anything of the sorts.
From looking around it seems like I need the NatNet SDK (or maybe the Camera SDK)? And I understand there is a way to link the information to MATLAB, which sounds like that is what I need (though if there is a way to get the information easily with python or C++ I would prefer that) but I didn't really understand how that works.
Also most of our workflow here is in Linux. As I see it everything on the website indicates that this works with Windows only, but I was wondering if there might be something I am missing that will allow me to work on Linux, though that isn't a deal breaker.
As you can see I am basically lost and looking for a place to start, like which SDK I need and how to get started with that SDK to be able to get the data I need. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
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I will start with saying that I am new to this world and as such might be missunderstanding some very basic things, so please correct me if I am way off the mark on things.
Recently my workplace found 4 old flex 13 cameras with an optihub 2 that haven't been used in a while and wanted to start a project tracking drones with them. Other than the cameras and hubs existance I don't have a clue of anything that has to do with them.
Basically as mentioned I want to be able to track drones, get the data from them in order to get my drones location and be able to reprogram the drone. I do not need it for graphical work or animations or anything of the sorts.
From looking around it seems like I need the NatNet SDK (or maybe the Camera SDK)? And I understand there is a way to link the information to MATLAB, which sounds like that is what I need (though if there is a way to get the information easily with python or C++ I would prefer that) but I didn't really understand how that works.
Also most of our workflow here is in Linux. As I see it everything on the website indicates that this works with Windows only, but I was wondering if there might be something I am missing that will allow me to work on Linux, though that isn't a deal breaker.
As you can see I am basically lost and looking for a place to start, like which SDK I need and how to get started with that SDK to be able to get the data I need. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Or