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Lastly restart the networking service to apply settings
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
6. The installer installs a program called SpinView. This allows you to see live feed video from
the camera. To start SpinView enter ‘spinview’ into the terminal.
7. The Linux installer also provides example programs in /usr/src/spin naker/src and full
documentation in /usr/share/doc/spinnaker-doc.
8. When SpinView is open the Boson device should be visible under the devices tab (as shown
below). Click on the Boson device to select the camera and the click the play button to display
a live feed from the camera.
9. Similar to the USB GUI, spinview provides access to the Boson features in the Features tab.
You may need to stop streaming video to change some settings.
If you notice that some images are getting dropped or that the video feed is choppy it may
help to increase the Rx and Tx buffer size. Below is a link describing how to do that.
https://www.itechlounge.net/2015/05/linux-how-to-tune-up-receive-tx-and-
transmit-rx-buffers-on-network-interface/
3.2.1 Robot Operating System
We have an example project that uses the Ethernet ADK in the ROS framework present here.
https://github.com/flir/flir_adk_ethernet
Once the Boson is setup to run with Linux then follow the instructions in the Readme.md to
get the Boson to work with ROS.
After setup you should be able to run which will stream video on the host computer.
roslaunch flir_adk_ethernet boson.launch
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