[Elphel-support] using elphel for the first time

[Diego Pardilla]

El 19/04/12 09:31, Sebastian Pichelhofer escribió:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 08:54, flavio soares <qazav3.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello, everyone,
>>
>> This is my first post on this list, so congratulations for all the
>> achievements you've had so far with Elphel.
>>
>> Yesterday, the Elphel 353 I'll be using for the next months has arrived and
>> I turned it on for the first time. I followed the Quick Start Guide and I
>> wasn't able to find the camera's IP. I'm currently using Debian, the Stable
>> version. (the same happens in Windows).
>>
>> I ran an ifconfig and my IP addresses were 192.168.1.103 and 192.168.1.105
>> (one connection via ethernet and the other via wireless). I tried
>> 192.168.1.9 or the default 192.168.0.9 but it couldn't reach the camera.
>>
You are on another subnet. Try with an adress 192.168.0.XXX.
>> I booted with the Kubuntu live USB and when I clicked on the icon to search
>> for the cameras, it had no problem and found it just fine. Even though my
>> IPs continued to be 192.168.1.xxxx, the camera was found on the default
>> 192.168.0.9.
>>
>> I wonder, I am doing something wrong? Is there any software that must be
>> installed in order to access the camera (I mean, apart from an internet
>> browser)?
>>
>> I tried using nmap (in Debian) to search for the camera's IP, with no
>> success.
>>
>> Also: at the Quick Start Guide, it says I should use a login as "root" and
>> password "pass", this wasn't asked with the live USB. At first, I managed to
>> see the live stream but then I believe the video stream disappeared as I
>> messed about with the configuration (because it showed a very low, red fps
>> of the streaming and I was trying to fix that).
> 
> I agree this part on the wiki page is a bit misleading.
> I improved that section to note that the username/pw is only for
> SSH/FTP access to the camera:
> http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Elphel_353_series_quick_start_guide#SSH.2FFTP_connection
> 
> Feel free to add/improve anything on that page you find is not clear
> yet, you are the perfect tester now as you are just starting with the
> camera :)
> 
> Low FPS is most likely caused by high exposure time.
> See http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Elphel_353_series_quick_start_guide#Camera_GUI.28camvc.29_Controls
> exposure in ms is the slider you want to change, double click turns
> off autoexposure
> 
> Regards Sebastian
> 
>>
>> I appreciate if you can help me,
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> flavio
>>
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