Intel RealSense LiDAR L515 - Realsense SDK

[ksolowoniuk]

I've been looking at these cameras on ebay and want to pick one up to play with, which inevitably leads to the question; Will it work on FreeBSD? Has anyone used these? I'm not really set on this specific unit but it does look pretty cool. Other alternatives:

• Intel RealSense Depth Camera D415
• Microsoft Kinect v2
• Asus Xtion Pro Live RGB

I'm just looking for a new toy, any help is appreciated. Also, any level of "working" is good enough for a start, even low level access from C++. Just something to get started.

 

[ksolowoniuk]

so... I picked up a Realsense SR300 but now I need to build this: https://github.com/realsenseai/librealsense. I can get video from the 1080p camera but then the LED stays on and I can't access the camera a second time without dis/reconnecting the device. I can't seem to get anything from the depth camera yet. Is anyone willing and able to help me get the SDK (librealsense) built? I see that I need cmake, I'm going to try and checkout the repo and use the Linux instructions but I have a feeling I'll be out of my depth very soon.

 

[Phishfry]

RealSense cameras sound interesting please keep us advised.

As a side note I did not know PTZ USB cameras had came around so much.

I have some Kids Riding Toys powered off SLA battery and was looking at remote vision options for them.

What does this library provide you with? A sample output device application? How do you integrate it? WebCamd? V4L?

I can get video from the 1080p camera

Please expand on this.. How you interfacing camera(s)?

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The Cameras always seemed so bulky to me. Like an afterthought.

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Lidar tooks cool but how to interface it...

 

[Phishfry]

Question: Is it worth going down an Intel Initiative wormhole? No future support possible.

The viewer looks badass:

librealsense/tools/realsense-viewer at master · realsenseai/librealsense

RealSense SDK. Contribute to realsenseai/librealsense development by creating an account on GitHub.

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How would you integrate this into something usable? Overly into a digital map? Locally modeling into 3D program?

I see OpenVino mentioned in there too...
I have one of those accelerators in MiniPCIe format on a UpSquared. Replaced with something.

 

[ksolowoniuk]

I was viewing the camera using c++ and opencv. I also used a webcam testing site, both seem to lock up the camera. I don't have this issue with my 720p Logitech camera. I would really prefer not to have to use the SDK and from what I've been able to find online the Linux kernel has had support for the SR300 for a while now. Seeing that I'm accessing the SR300 with webcamd which uses linux drivers I would expect it should work but? I did some testing on a spare drive and installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS then added the librealsesnse repo and installed the SDK but couldn't get the camera to show up in the viewer. Some suggestions online mention using a powered USB hub. I'm going to see if I can find one.