kinect (oldest one) (libfreenect with py_kinect) on linux ubuntu14.04 x64

2021-07-03 22:26:20

freenect libs

Where is the resource?

Here :P : https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect

To make sure you were not installing the old libfreenect stuff shipped with ubuntu.

Try to remove those old packages if you have already.

apt-get remove freenect python-freenect libfreenect-demos

Before you are going to build the libfreenect, you will want this:

 sudo apt-get install cython python-dev python-numpy freeglut3-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libxmu-dev libxi-dev -y

First you need to download the libfreenect source codes from here.

git clone https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect

cd libfreenect
mkdir build
cd build
sudo cmake ..
sudo make -j4
sudo make install

sudo ldconfig

And now you can try plug in the kinect.

you will see it is detected by the computer:

you will see many tools which are compiled at once here.

And Try this, see the depth if it works!!!!

It works!

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Python scripts

Now you may want to have fun with those python scripts!

For those people who do not want to compile anything in their ubuntu 14.04

apt-get install python-opencv python-pygame python-xlib

F.Y.I. I have installed 'opencv-2.4.11' already.

Then, hook some cool stuff now.

** Do not forget to use

sudo

before any command related to kinect. Application need resource.

py_kinect makes you feel so easy to have fun with kinect.

the source link is

https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect/tree/master/wrappers/python/

I feel it's bit slow on ubuntu 14.04. I doute it has something to do with the 'libusb'. According to the docs here https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect , we need the libusb >= 1.0.18 , but here I used libusb 1.0.0

And the package we see is:

$ apt-cache show libusb-1.0--dev

Package: libusb-1.0--dev

Priority: optional

Section: libdevel

Installed-Size:

Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>

Original-Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>

Architecture: amd64

Source: libusbx

Version: :1.0.-1ubuntu2

Depends: libusb-1.0- (= :1.0.-1ubuntu2)

Recommends: libusb-1.0-doc

Filename: pool/main/libu/libusbx/libusb-1.0--dev_1.0.17-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Size:

MD5sum: 2151c234e5b53391caab9b07b4b07fb0

SHA1: 20bece6578d0453bf57dc2b8f61eb9aa058fe474

SHA256: 5ea52a92904bad5c19f671626d8d52ec6ea8c5eec4d6c6606facb32860db46b7

Description-en: userspace USB programming library development files

 Library for programming USB applications without the knowledge

 of Linux kernel internals.

 .

 This package contains what you need for compiling sources that

 use this library in your own code.

Description-md5: 07c28a16589d7bc7f4eda04968bb1f5a

Multi-Arch: same

Homepage: http://www.linux-usb.org/

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug

Origin: Ubuntu

Supported: 9m