Change history

3.0.1 (2024-11-29)

3.0.0 (2024-11-26)

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
  • Add support for basic & digest HTTP authorization
  • Rewrite some of the underling CGI calls to use requests to make the code easier to maintain
  • Add support for authentication to the PTZ node
  • Enable password encryption in view_axis.launch
  • Expand the readme with details on usage, supported devices, available topics & services
  • Add python3-requests as a dependendency
  • Add support for the autoiris feature available on some cameras
• Contributors: Chris Iverach-Brereton

0.4.3 (2022-08-22)

• Merge pull request #73 from jhiggins-cpr/noetic-devel Add frames-per-second (fps) as a configurable option
• Reverting package change as it happens automatically
• Add frames-per-second (fps) as a configurable option
• Contributors: Jason Higgins, Tony Baltovski

0.4.2 (2022-07-29)

• Explicitly use Python3 in shebang for teleop nodes; remove unnecessary shebang in setup.py (#72)
• Contributors: Joey Yang

0.4.1 (2022-06-16)

• Fix the #! lines to use python3, decode the utf8 bytes into a string to suppress a warning when parsing the camera position
• Contributors: Chris Iverach-Brereton

0.4.0 (2021-11-29)

• upgraded cmakelist and package.xml, and setup.py for noetic (#70)
• Update the python files to be python-3 compliant. Fix some bugs in the image data parsing needed as part of this update
• Merge pull request #55 from sgemme-csa/master KeyError in publishCameraState when camera is not ready on PTZ camera
• Merge branch 'master' of github.com:ros-drivers/axis_camera
• Expose the height & width parameters as arguments in the launch file
• Merge pull request #56 from jeff-o/patch-1 Update axis.launch
• Revert "Fix up the main scripts to be python-3 compliant" This reverts commit 569e4b22415edee653914fa387a689d2e85e2879.
• Fix up the main scripts to be python-3 compliant
• Merge branch 'master' of github.com:ros-drivers/axis_camera

0.3.2 (2021-05-21)

• Improve support for the F34 and F44 multi-camera controllers 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
• Contributors: Chris Iverach-Brereton

0.3.1 (2020-12-10)

• Merge pull request #62 from ros-drivers/teleop-axis Fixed tele-op axis params.
• Merge pull request #55 from sgemme-csa/master KeyError in publishCameraState when camera is not ready on PTZ camera
• Expose the height & width parameters as arguments in the launch file
• Merge pull request #56 from jeff-o/patch-1 Update axis.launch
• Merge pull request #58 from luishowell/master add support for quad video
• Merge pull request #61 from cclauss/patch-1 Fix Python 3 syntax error
• Remove the html_static directory from conf.py; it doesn't exist anyway and is just creating a warning that's causing Jenkins to see the build as unstable
• Fix Python 3 syntax error #52 again
• Remove the :: leftover from the .rst
• Copy the README contents to the .md so they show up on the github main page
• Update the maintainer now that Clearpath is officially maintaining this package again
• Merge pull request #54 from k-okada/add_travis
• update travis.yml
• add support for quad video
• Update axis.launch Adds the "camera" param to the launch file. Helps launch the driver cleanly when used with other drivers that also use "camera" as a param name.
• No need to close connection as it will get garbage collected
• Merge remote-tracking branch 'csa/develop' into github-master
• Adjusting error message on KeyError
• Merge remote-tracking branch 'github/master' into develop
• Merge branch 'develop' of git+ssh://liberty/data/git/ros/axis_camera into develop
• Fixing camera telemetry where accessing its telemetry before a certain time after startup would causes a KeyError because the fields in the response were not present. Now catching the KeyError exception to fix the problem.
• Fixing camera telemetry where accessing its telemetr before a certain time after startup would cause a KeyError because the fiels in the response were not present, now catchin the KeyError exception to fix the problem
• Fixing connection problem which was causing the telemetry to stall
• Contributors: Chris I-B, Christian Clauss, Howell, Jeff Schmidt, Kei Okada, Sebastien Gemme, jmastrangelo-cpr

0.3.0 (2018-05-25)

• Merge pull request #49 from rossctaylor/feature/support_for_f34 Add: support for Axis F34 multicamera switch
• Merge pull request #48 from tonybaltovski/pan-tilt-parms Added ROS params for the pan and tilt axis.
• Contributors: Ross Taylor, Tony Baltovski

0.2.1 (2017-11-17)

• add ros-orphaned-maintaner to package.xml (#50)
• Set queue_size to Publishers in axis_camera (#47)
• Point package.xml URLs at ros-drivers org. (#39)
• sending camera_info (#38)
  • copying stamp so rectification happens
  • sending camera_info
• Contributors: Kei Okada, Kentaro Wada, Mike Purvis, Sam Pfeiffer, Micah Corah

0.2.0 (2015-05-06)

• Merge pull request #35 from pal-robotics-forks/support_axis212ptz Added support for Axis 212 PTZ.
• Merge pull request #29 from negre/master handle encrypted password authentication
• Added support for Axis 212 PTZ. Also made the exception when something goes wrong in the state grabber clearer.
• Merge pull request #34 from CreativeEntropy/patch-1 Create LICENSE file (New BSD)
• Create LICENSE (New BSD) Create LICENSE file to make copyright clear.
• Merge pull request #31 from clearpathrobotics/jeff-o-patch-1 Update axis.launch
• Update axis.launch Corrects an issue where a topic subscribes and publishes to the same node (axis/republish).
• handle encrypted password authentication
• Contributors: Jeff Schmidt, Julian Schrittwieser, Mike Purvis, Sammy Pfeiffer, amaury

0.1.0 (2014-07-31)

• Hydro and Indigo release.
• Several bugfixes and general tidyup.
• Rename compressed topic image_raw/compressed (#5).
• Convert to catkin (#12).

0.0.2 (2013-04-10)

• Fuerte update.
• Add frame_id parameter (fixes #8)
• Add camera_info_manager support (#10). Adds a new dependency on camera_info_manager_py, and a new camera_info_url parameter.
• Add some additional PTZ control nodes: teleop.py, teleop_twist.py, axis_twist.py, axis_all.py.
• Add PTZ transform publisher: publish_axis_tf.py.

0.0.1 (2012-12-05)

• Fuerte release.
• Initial axis_camera package.