The husarion-astra snap contains all the necessary software to bring the Astra cameras up.
Parameters
The snap provides the following configurable parameters (param name: default value):
driver: {...}ros: {...}The ros contains the following keys:
ros.domain-id: 0 - Sets the ROS_DOMAIN_ID environment variable for the ROS driver.ros.localhost-only: 0 - Sets the ROS_LOCALHOST_ONLY environment variable for the ROS driver.ros.transport: udp - Configures DDS transport. Options are udp, shm, builtin (or rmw_fastrtps_cpp), rmw_cyclonedds_cpp. Corresponding DDS XML files can be found in the /var/snap/husarion-depthai/common directory (custom FastDDS setups can also be created here).ros.namespace: (unset) - Namespace for all topics and transforms.The driver contains the following keys:
astra1default - Sets the camera parameters based on /var/snap/husarion-astra/common/camera-params-<VALUE>.yamldefault - Sets the FFMPEG parameters based on /var/snap/husarion-astra/common/ffmpeg-params-<VALUE>.yamlTo set the parameters, use the snap set command, e.g.,
snap set husarion-depthai driver.name=astra2 driver.camera-params=custom driver.camera-params=my-custom
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Snap can be installed on elementary OS from the command line. Open Terminal from the Applications launcher and type the following:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install husarion-astra, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install husarion-astra
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