[robocup-small] SSLVision camera sort patch

[Joydeep Biswas]

Tested and committed.

-Joydeep


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Joydeep Biswas <joydeepb at ri.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Andre,
>
> Thanks so much for this valuable contribution! I shall test it out in our
> lab and then commit it.
>
> Thanks,
> Joydeep
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Andre R. <andre at ryll.cc> wrote:
>
>>  Dear SSLVision-Maintainers,
>>
>> I have created a patch which sorts the firewire cameras by their GUID. As
>> some of you might know, we are using 4 cams in our lab (with single vision
>> instance) and experienced changing camera IDs after a restart of the vision
>> computer. It looks like the enumaration of the cameras is somewhat random.
>> This can also happen with 2 cameras, but much less frequently. The patch
>> just sorts cameras by their unique GUID.
>> After applying the patch it might happen that your camera IDs change
>> once, because they were not listed in GUID order, but afterwards they are
>> fixed.
>>
>> It would be nice if one of the maintainers could apply this patch to the
>> trunk and also merge it to the 4cam branch.
>>
>>
>> Best regards and happy new year,
>>
>> Andre Ryll
>> Tigers Mannheim
>>
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