RealSense r200 on Ubuntu 16.04

[Eric Schleicher]

Quick question regarding running realsense r200 on ubuntu.

This already works on windows, and i just hadn't tried yet on linux

I noticed that the RTAB MAP GUI has the option for the r200 greyed out by default.  On my system I installed ros and ros_rtabmap and just running rtabmap from terminal.  i thought perhaps this was because of how i installed, but another person mentioned that they did the "regular" install (here) and it's also greyed out.

On the this issue page (here) looks like the original support for the r200.  

Did we miss the page on the wiki or in an issue outlining getting the r200 running on linux *without* ros?

[matlabbe]

Hi Eric,

It should work on Ubuntu too:


Normally cmake should detect librealsense if installed:

-- --------------------------------------------
-- Info :
--   Version : 0.12.5
--   CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX = /home/mathieu/catkin_ws/devel
--   CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE =     Release
--   CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR = lib
--   BUILD_APP =            ON
--   BUILD_TOOLS =          ON
--   BUILD_EXAMPLES =       ON
--   BUILD_SHARED_LIBS =    ON
--   CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS =  -fmessage-length=0  -fopenmp -std=c++11
--   With OpenCV 3 xfeatures2d module (SIFT/SURF/BRIEF/FREAK) = YES (License: Non commercial)
--   With Freenect             = YES (License: Apache v2 and/or GPLv2)
--   With OpenNI2              = YES (License: Apache v2)
--   With Freenect2            = YES (License: Apache v2 and/or GPLv2)
--   With dc1394               = YES (License: LGPL)
--   With FlyCapture2/Triclops = NO (Point Grey SDK not found)
--   With TORO                 = YES (License: Creative Commons [Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike])
--   With g2o                  = YES (License: BSD)
--   With GTSAM                = YES (License: BSD)
--   With VERTIGO              = YES (License: GPLv3)
--   With cvsba                = NO (cvsba not found)
--   With ZED                  = YES (With CUDA)
--   With RealSense            = YES (License: Apache-2)
--   With OCTOMAP              = YES (License: BSD)
--   With Qt5                  = YES (License: Open Source or Commercial)

See "--   With RealSense            = YES (License: Apache-2)".

On my computer, I use realsense binaries installed indirectly with realsense_camera package:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-realsense-camera

cheers,
Mathieu