Our ROV onboard camera vision is flaky. We are controlling ROV via joystick and looking at camera feed via QGroundControl. About every 10 seconds the video feed gets very pixelated and greyed out. This periodically happens. We suspect it’s some issue with encoding, and maybe the video software was d…

Hi! Have a look at this thread: [image] Video freezing and grey frames in QGC 4.0.5 when recording QGroundControl Hi there, last weekend I did 1 and a half hour testddives and I think I can confirm that version @jwalser linked to solved the problem of lag and grey freezi…

Hi Bo, thanks for the response, we will try it out. Just to be sure, the version 4.1.4 is for QGroundControl and not for ArduSub right? Our current setup uses ArduSub v3.5.4, because ArduSub v4.0.x fails to connect to Companion software (raspberry pi) for some reason. Thanks!

[image] searover2021: Just to be sure, the version 4.1.4 is for QGroundControl and not for ArduSub right? Yes, that’s correct. [image] searover2021: Our current setup uses ArduSub v3.5.4, because ArduSub v4.0.x fails to connect to Companion software (raspberry pi) for some reason. Thi…

Hi Eliot, we bought the ROV back in March 2021, so it’s the standard PixHawk and Raspberry Pi that ships with the stock build. It’s kinda weird that ArduSub v4.0.x doesn’t work with latest Companion software (see our experiments here: ROV connect to QGroundContorol Failure, Unable to control ROV or…

[image] searover2021: It’s kinda weird that ArduSub v4.0.x doesn’t work with latest Companion software (see our experiments here: ROV connect to QGroundContorol Failure, Unable to control ROV or update firmware - #13 by searover2021 ). I’ve responded there. Apologies for not getting back to yo…

Sounds good Eliot, we will try it out. Thanks for your help on this post and the previous post :slight_smile:

BlueRov onboard camera flaky

Blue Robotics Vehicles

Boko (Bo Koppel) September 19, 2021, 9:28am 2

Hi!
Have a look at this thread:

Topic		Replies	Views
BlueROV2 Heavy camera problem after finish assembly Blue Robotics Products	7	3147	July 19, 2020
ROV connect to QGroundContorol Failure, Unable to control ROV or update firmware Blue Robotics Software	17	2735	September 22, 2021
Grey screen while video stream QGroundControl	9	3920	March 3, 2022
BlueROV2 R1 Camera not detected after upgrade to BlueOS ArduSub	21	3206	September 28, 2023
Camera visualization problem in QGroundControl QGroundControl	9	2120	September 6, 2023

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