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Get-Image / Image-Viewer

Verify Connection First

You will want to make sure that Spot and your computer are connected to the same network. Follow this guide.

Get Image

This will get an image from one of Tape Measures cameras!

Windows 10/11

  1. Start by opening up command prompt and getting into your virtual environment.
  2. To get into virtual environment paste:
.\my_spot_env\Scripts\activate.bat

For Mac & Ubuntu users:

  1.  You will want to navigate to the directory
  • Then cd into your get_image folder of the spot SDK
  • To do so find where the spot sdk folder is located.
  • Then type cd one folder at a time until you reach get_image

*Should look something like this:

  • Then paste in the command:
    • python.exe -m pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Mac:
    • python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
  • It’s normal if it takes a little bit.
  • You are now free to run any get_image command.
  • For username and password please see Dwight.
  • For all the following commands Mac users just need to replace python.exe with python3.
  • For Static Image:
    • python.exe get_image.py 192.168.200.39 --image-sources frontleft_fisheye_image --image-sources frontleft_depth

  • With static images you'll find the images saved in the get_image folder.

Image-Viewer

For Streaming his cameras:

  • python.exe image_viewer.py 192.168.200.39 --image-sources frontleft_fisheye_image

*IMPORTANT* When in streaming mode press ESC to exit the viewer.

*You should get images such as this one:

Want it to show you color? How about adjusting the picture’s size? You can mess with arguments during meetings! So be there!

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