Having trouble getting it to track

[vava2930]

Hi all,

I just pulled my trackir 3 out of a box for the first time in years. It's not working and I don't know why. The little green dot appears very clearly on the 'tracking' menu, but it doesn't track my head at all.

The only way I can get it to track my head and get the little green light on the main unit to light up is to hold up an entire sheet of tracking dots--and even with that, it can't be more than about 10 inches away. Using a single dot at a normal distance yields absolutely no head tracking at all.

What's going on? Any ideas? (I'm using Win XP by the way, TrackIR software version 4.1 build 37)

[VincentG]

In the software, view -> tracking

Is there more than one object on the screen, any red?

Do you have vector tracking installed on the system?

View -> tracking -> settings, is trhe option for camera LEDs checked?

[vava2930]

Is there more than one object on the screen, any red?

Nope. Just the green dot.

Do you have vector tracking installed on the system?

It says 'vector tracking is active' on the main screen.

View -> tracking -> settings, is trhe option for camera LEDs checked?

Yeah.


...by the way I don't know if this is useful. But I just tried putting it into a new USB port, and windows gave me the 'found new hardware' thing again. I thought that was kind of strange, I went ahead and re-installed it automatically again anyway.

Oh, apparently I have the TrackIR 4, not 3, if that matters...

[VincentG]

OK, so you will need the metal TrackClip, that came with the TrackIR 4, as you need 3 reflective dots (IR sources for the vector software to track

http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/02- ... oRight.jpg

If you want to do single dot tracking, you will need to go into each profile (flight, default, etc.) and select dot, instead of vector.

[vava2930]

If you want to do single dot tracking, you will need to go into each profile (flight, default, etc.) and select dot, instead of vector.

That worked, thanks a bunch mate!!