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Asked: 2015-10-15 05:03:44 +0800 CST

How to install Kinect drivers?

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I have a Kinect v2 and I am trying to connect it to my laptop using libfreenect2.

Here is what I have done so far :

  1. Got the libfreenect2 project 

    git clone https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect2.git

  2. Installed needed dependencies

    sudo apt-get install build-essential libturbojpeg libjpeg-turbo8-dev libtool autoconf libudev-dev cmake mesa-common-dev freeglut3-dev libxrandr-dev doxygen libxi-dev automake

cd libfreenect2/depends
sh install_ubuntu.sh
sudo apt-get install libglfw3-dev

  3. I have an Intel GPU, installed beignet-dev for OpenCL

    sudo apt-get install beignet-dev

  4. Build the executable

    mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Everything successfully installed and the build was successful too.

  1. Launch the program 

    sudo ./bin/Protonect

The output does not display any error but the Viewer windows stay black :

[Info] [Freenect2Impl] enumerating devices...
[Info] [Freenect2Impl] 8 usb devices connected
[Info] [Freenect2Impl] found valid Kinect v2 @2:5 with serial 501696141942
[Info] [Freenect2Impl] found 1 devices
[Info] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] opening...
[Info] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] opened
[Info] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] starting...
[Debug] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] ReadData0x14 response
[Debug] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] 92 bytes of raw data
0x0000:  00 00 12 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 43 c1 1f 41    2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e432e2e41
0x0010:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00    2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e
0x0020:  0a 21 33 55 c2 00 17 20 00 08 00 00 10 00 00 00    2e2133552e2e2e202e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e
0x0030:  00 01 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 80 00 01 00 00 00    2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e802e2e2e2e2e
0x0040:  31 33 00 00 00 04 0f 0d 47 4d 48 38 34 36 2e 31    31332e2e2e2e2e2e474d483834362e31
0x0050:  58 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                582e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e2e

[Debug] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] ReadStatus0x090000 response
[Debug] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] 4 bytes of raw data
0x0000:  00 22 00 00                                        2e222e2e

[Debug] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] ReadStatus0x090000 response
[Debug] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] 4 bytes of raw data
0x0000:  00 22 00 00                                        2e222e2e

[Info] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] enabling usb transfer submission...
[Info] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] submitting usb transfers...
[Info] [Freenect2DeviceImpl] started
device serial: 50**************
device firmware: 4.3.3912.0.7
[Info] [TurboJpegRgbPacketProcessor] avg. time: 18.4934ms -> ~54.0734Hz
[Info] [TurboJpegRgbPacketProcessor] avg. time: 19.4946ms -> ~51.2961Hz
...

Viewer :

kinect viewer

Additional informations :

The kinect is connected on a USB 3.0 (required) port and I am using Ubuntu 15.04.

What am I missing here ?

drivers

1 Answers

  1. It's best to report this issue on GitHub where we can track your progress.

    Protonect uses OpenGL be default. What is your OpenGL version glxinfo | grep OpenGL? If the depth processor really running? To see if the depth processor is really running, look for [XXXDepthRgbPacketProcessor] avg. time log messages.

    As you have installed OpenCL driver, you may also run ./Protonect cl.

    Please follow up the issue on GitHub if you can.

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