7.41 sonyevid30

Authors

Brian P. Gerkey gerkey(at)stanford.edu

Synopsis

The sonyevid30 driver provides control of a Sony EVID30 pan-tilt-zoom camera unit.

Interfaces

Supported interfaces:

• ptz

Required devices:

• None.

Supported configuration requests:

• None.

Configuration file options

Name Type Default Meaning

port string "/dev/ttyS2" The serial port to be used

fov tuple [3 30] The minimum and maximum fields of view (in degrees) Half-angle??

Notes

• The sonyevid30 operates over a direct serial link, not through the P2OS microcontroller's AUX port, as is the normal configuration for ActivMedia robots. You may have to make or buy a cable to connect your camera to a normal serial port.
• This driver likely only works in Linux.