Eyesis4Pi User Guide - Recording

Package

• Eyesis4Pi
• Switch 3CRDSF9PWR / Netgear FS726TP
• PC

Powering On

• Turn the switch on.
• Connect the camera's ethernet cables to the PoE enabled ports.

Fig.1 Netgear FS726TP

Setting Up Network

Eyesis4Pi's default IP addresses:

192.168.0.221-229

• Connect the PC to the Gigabit port of the switch.

Note: Do not confuse the Gigabit port with the Console port.

• Configure the PC's network settings:

IP address: 192.168.0.xxx (example, 192.168.0.68)
Mask:       255.255.255.0

Running System Tests

• Open the GUI page (the address is bookmarked in the Firefox and in the Chrome). The GUI address is:

http://127.0.0.1/eyesisgui/index.html

• Go to the "Settings" -> "Test"-tab:

System tests

0. Open the tests page

Open the test page-link

1. All the modules are online

Check the Temperatures Map under Other tab. If there are 0 black rectangles then all the modules are working.

Fig.2 Other-tab

2. Images

Go to the Camera tab, press jpeg button and turn on the test pattern. Then refresh Previews. The correct test pattern will consist from the following tiles:

Fig.3 Eyesis4Pi Test Pattern

3. GPS locked

Check the coordinates at the main module:

http://192.168.0.221:8081/meta

Fig.4 GPS coordinates

4. Internal CF cards for IMU/GPS log

Look for hda1 and hdb1 at:

http://192.168.0.221/phpshell.php?command=cat%20/proc/partitions%20%7C%20grep%20%22hd%22

Fig.5 CF cards

Setting recording parameters: storage paths

• Check paths at the Settings -> Recording-tab

Absolute footage path - the path to the folder where all the footage series are stored. Must be writable to everyone.
Series subfolder - created automatically
Files limit in a subfodler - number of files stored in a subfolder inside Series subfolder

CF card device name - GPS/IMU log is saved to the internal CF cards. On the master camera they are /dev/hda1 & /dev/hdb1
GPS/IMU log file name - absolute path (in the master camera)+ log base name
Starting index - logs are named as follows - [base_name]-[index]
Records per file - number of records per log file. New file: an incremented index is added to the base name.

Fig.6 Recording-tab

Setting recording parameters: camera settings

• Check camera settings at the Settings -> Camera-tab

Trigger period,ms  - 1/FPS.
Skip frames mask - hex 0x1ff - bit[8]=enable, bits[7:0] - 1 - record frame, 0 - skip frame - in an 8-frame sequence.
HDRVexpos - in the HDR mode - the darker frame multiplication coefficient to get exposure for the lighter frame.
AutoExp max, ms - the autoexposure value limit.
AutoExp level - value of a pixel at which the autoexposure works.
AutoExp fracpix - number of pixels below the Autoexp level.
AutoExp frame ahead - number of previous frames used for calculatin the current frame exposure.
Compression quality - JP4/JPEG compression quality.

HDR mode - at the fps rate the dark and the bright images alternate.

Fig.7 Camera-tab

Recording

• Record-button to start recording

Fig.8 REC

Stopping

• Stop-button for stop.

Fig.9 STOP

Downloading IMU/GPS Log

• After stopping - go to the Settings -> Recording-tab to download the IMU/GPS log.

Checking the Recorded Footage

• Check the footage at the Absolute footage path - each panorama set should consist of 9 images named with a timestamp of when it was taken plus the index of the camera (seconds_microseconds_index.jp4):

Note: Missing files most likely means that the FPS is too high.