Change history

2.0.3 (2024-11-01)

2.0.2 (2024-06-04)

2.0.1 (2024-05-24)

• Remove the unused Axis.msg (all relevant information is now published in independent topics). Fix action imports in axis_ptz
• Contributors: Chris Iverach-Brereton

2.0.0 (2024-05-23)

• Initial release for ROS 2
• Contributors: Chris Iverach-Brereton, Mike Hosmar

0.5.2 (2023-12-06)

0.5.1 (2023-11-22)

0.5.0 (2023-11-15)

• Major overhaul for better PTZ support (#80)
  • Move the messages out of the driver and into their own package
  • Migrating essential components into the src folder so we can use a single ROS node to contain both the video & ptz functionality. Start filling necessary messages & services for incoming features
  • Remove the old axis and axis_ptz nodes, roll both into the new axis_camera_node script with the backends moved to the src directory
  • Remove the dynamic_reconfigure, strip the PTZ controller down to just controlling pan, tilt, and zoom; don't set brightness, white balance, etc.… Add support for velocity & position control topics, change the driver to use radians instead of degrees
  • Re-implement the teleop controls to use the PS4 controller. Fix some bugs found during testing
  • Expose the joy topic as an arg to make remapping easier
  • Use rad/s instead of [-100, 100] for pan & tilt velocity control
  • Re-implement brightness/iris/focus/etc... support via individual services & topics instead of all combined into a single one.
  • Latch the wiper, night-mode, and defogger topics instead of publishing at 1Hz. Prevent the wiper from being turned on if it's already on & running
  • Add meshes & URDF files for a fixed dome camera, PTZ dome camera, and the Q62 PTZ camera
  • Update the default camera frame ID to match the new description files
  • Update the plugin name for the dome camera model
  • Fixes after testing on hardware
• Contributors: Chris Iverach-Brereton

0.4.8 (2023-08-11)

• Fix the image_transport node to publish theora frames of the [enable_theora]{.title-ref} argument is enabled.
• Add [fps]{.title-ref} as an additional argument to the launch file
• Contributors: Chris Iverach-Brereton

0.4.7 (2023-06-01)

• Fix a bug that caused the ptz node to crash if the camera has fixed brightness
• Contributors: Chris Iverach-Brereton

0.4.6 (2023-05-05)

• Wait until camera is online before connecting (#78)
  • Add a wait loop to prevent execution until the camera responds to a ping. This should prevent issues where the node starts while the camera is still powering-on, resulting in some excessive errors
  • Clear the camera position after publishing the state to avoid issues where we republush the same state ad nauseum if there's an error
• Contributors: Chris Iverach-Brereton

0.4.5 (2023-03-30)

• Enable digest authentication by default
• Contributors: Chris Iverach-Brereton

0.4.4 (2023-03-17)

• Improve support for the F34 multi-camera controller by adding default values for the camera index (1-4). Change the camera arg in view_axis to camera_name, change its default IP address to better-match with the main axis.launch file
• Merge latest changes in master into noetic-devel
• Merge Q62 support into noetic-devel branch (#76)
  • Add support for the Q6215 IR mode, defogger, and wiper
  • Ensure that wiper, defog, IR modes are all disabled on startup
  • Add a launch argument to expose the encrypted password option

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