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Having problems with vvvv + Kinect + MS drivers

#1

Hi

My name is Randall, I am fairly new to vvvv and am very excited bout it.

After several attempts with open and MS drivers, following vvvv’s documentation guidelines and tweaking things here and there, I am still unable to get any input from my Kinect using vvvv.

Whenever I add a Kinect node to my patches, it shows up red and displays no usable inputs or outputs. If I hit F1 to see the node’s help, the samples do not work.

This is true for MS and OpenNI drivers.

Are there any extra steps needed to get a Kinect to work within vvvv?

Can anyone point me into the right direction?

Thanks a lot for any information you can provide.

#2

Have you got the addon pack installed, these will have the nodes for the kinect. Also will only work with 32-bit version of vvvv, 64-bit vvvv addonpack doesnt include the kinect stuff.

Depending upon which drivers you are using, you will use those nodes (when you get them working).

#3

Hi benpalmer,

Thanks for the reply,

I am running Windows 7 64 bit, but have installed the 32 bit version of both vvvv and the addons pack. The nodes for Kinect show up on my node list, however they show up red when I add them to a patch.

I am using the Windows SDK/Drivers/Kinect Runtime 1.6.

Any further thoughts?

#4

strange. you could try to get the sdk tools and see if the examples coming with it work: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/develop/developer-downloads.aspx

#5

Is it a PC or is it a Mac running bootcamp? I know i cant get my macbook running w7 32-bit to run them at all but i have a desktop pc that can run it fine. I didn’t do anything different whilst setting them up.

#6

Thanks for the replies,

I am using a PC, however, after a full cleanup and a careful reinstallation of all the components, My Kinect nodes are now appearing gray as expected.

I still have to figure out how to get any output from it, currently getting a blank white screen when I try to render the kinect’s view, but I believe there is some information on that topic in a different thread, I will have a look soon.

Anyways, it seems to be working now, thanks for the help!

#7

hello, if you running betta 29.2 you need a kinect fix for it:
https://discourse.vvvv.org/t/10070

also usefull node
https://discourse.vvvv.org/

not promising soon, but i did quite straightforward lecture for working with kinect, hope to be avalible soon as a videotutorial.

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