Orbbec Astra on ROS

Hi, I would like to know if anyone was able to run OpenNI2 ROS Package with Orbbec Astra camera.

I tried but the device is not recognized.

See the solution that I wrote here:

Hi, Thanks for the reply.

I tried exactly as you wrote. But it still does no recognise the device. How your pkgconfig “.pc” file looks like?

prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include/openni2

Name: OpenNI2
Description: A general purpose driver for all OpenNI cameras.
Version: 2.2.0.3
Cflags: -I${includedir}
Libs: -L${libdir} -lOpenNI2 -L${libdir}/OpenNI2/Drivers -lDummyDevice -lOniFile -lPS1080 -lORBBEC.so

These instructions worked for me - thanks. Running Xubuntu 14.04 x64 with ROS Indigo – couldn’t get it to work at first but then remembered I had to add my user name to the ‘video’ group as specified in the udev rules:

$ sudo adduser [user_name] video