[Motmot] MotMot help needed

[Andrew Straw]

Dear Ben,

Unfortunately, there's no support for Logitech webcams. The list of
supported cameras is:

http://code.astraw.com/projects/motmot/libcamiface.html#what-cameras-are-supported

For the least expensive option that I know works, I'd suggest a Pt. Grey
Firefly MV. These are available in USB and Firewire, and I know both work.

-Andrew

Ben Beuster wrote:
> Hello dear MotMot subscribers,
>
> I`m sorry, but I use now this way to contact everybody. Maybe somebody
> who wants to help me. There is a big problem I have: For flytracking I
> want to use MotMot with my Logitech webcam. every Time I want to start
> the program there is an error message:
>
> While attempting to open the plugin "fview_ext_trig",
> FView encountered an error. The error is:
> Cannot find device. (Perhaps run with environment variable
> REQUIRE_TRIGGER=0.)
>
> When I set it to 0 in
> "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/motmot/fview_ext_trig/ttrigger.py", then
> the message dint appear any more, but it still didn´t detect my usb
> webcam. Does anybody know whats the problem is?
> I use the actual release of Ubuntu 10.04 with the recommended way of
> installing MotMot and fview with the package manager.
>
> Thanks and greets, Ben
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Andrew D. Straw, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
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