Wanda button events on flock of birds

[Atul Thakur]

Originally Posted by farshizzo

If you can't get the joystick/buttons working with Ascension's software then you will need to contact them for support.

I have contacted Ascension for joystick and button stuff.

However, one issue is that the position and orientation BOTH are changed in virtual world when I move wanda in real world in case of Ascension's software winbird. When I tried to replicate that behavior in Vizard <as posted in the snippet posted in my previous post in this thread> I can only see the orientations changing and not the positions. What could be possible reason for this.

Thanks again for replying,
regards,
-Atul

[farshizzo]

I'm not sure why the position data is not being updated in Vizard. I tested it out here and it works fine. Are you sure the switches on your flock of birds device is setup correctly?

[Atul Thakur]

Originally Posted by farshizzo

I'm not sure why the position data is not being updated in Vizard. I tested it out here and it works fine. Are you sure the switches on your flock of birds device is setup correctly?

I have set up dipswitch setting to be
1 - down
2 - up
3 - down
4 - up
5 - up
6 - up
7 - up
8 - up
following your suggestion on http://www.worldviz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1293
However, I want to share an observation that the trackd daemon doesn't identify the sensors in this configuration of dipswitch. The trackd daemon runs properly when I set the dipswitch to be
1 - down
2 - up
3 - down
4 - up
5 - up
6 - up
7 - down
8 - up
however in this case vizard doesn't identify the fob and gives error like "not found on com1".
I am puzzled as what settings for dipswitch should I keep
Thanks and regards,
-Atul

[farshizzo]

Having switches 4-7 up means you have a single bird in standalone mode. When you have multiple birds attached, then the first bird will have switch 7 down. It seems Trackd does not use standalone mode when only 1 bird is attached.

[Atul Thakur]

So, it seems that my dipswitch setting is correct as I have one bird in standalone mode.
Vizard can read the data from sensor but when I move the wanda...only orientation changes in the virtual environment and not the position. However, if I use the get() method, Vizard perfectly returns the position and orientation in its canonical (posn + quat) format.



regards,
-Atul