I can imagine it’s becoming quite frustrating for you. I do have to repeat my advice to try to get something more basic working first though, such as the simpletest.py.
Once you’ve troubleshooted your servos then hopefully facetracker will also work, but until then it’s adding a layer of complexity that makes it hard to tell where the problem lies.
Thank you, I’ll give it a go tonight.
I’ve installed the Adafruit_Python_PCA9685 package and run:
sudo python simpletest.py
The camera mount server rotates left and right continuously until I press Ctrl-C to quit.
Now what?
It’s a possibility, though nothing in the Waveshare doc seems to indicate it wouldn’t work.
You should set some debug functions in facetracker and see if the various tracking variables change. Depending on the answer it may give you some leads as to whether hardware or software is the culprit.
I haven’t done anything with Python before, I’ve recently read a book on it, so will have a play with this and see what I can find out, I’ve checked the wiring and everything looks correct as per the information published online and photos. When I run a script to test the servo’s the arm rotates left to right, but nothing happens when I run the facetracker script, except a window showing the camera output but nothing else…
Haha! I have some news for you. Looks like there was a dependency required that was missed out in the tutorial… when not present it annoyingly did not lead to any error and pretty much the situation you described!
So try the following:
sudo apt-get install python-smbus python-opencv opencv-data
… hopefully it will now start tracking your face. Let us know if that did the trick!
Thank you, works great now.
Does this program work with Pi Zero W? I have been able to make the Picamera work and the Pan tilt hat separately but not together yet. Also none of the face tracker programs work no matter how many updates, downloads of facetracker I download and run.
The latest I tried was this one:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import numpy as np
import cv2.cv as cv
import os
from pantilthat import *
os.system(‘sudo modprobe bcm2835-v4l2’)
cascade = cv.Load(’/usr/share/opencv/haarcascades/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml’)
#cascade = cv.Load(’/usr/share/opencv/lbpcascades/lbpcascade_frontalface.xml’)
cam_pan = 90
cam_tilt = 45
pan(cam_pan-90)
tilt(cam_tilt-90)
light_mode(WS2812)
def lights(r,g,b,w):
for x in range(18):
set_pixel_rgbw(x,r if x in [3,4] else 0,g if x in [3,4] else 0,b,w if x in [0,1,6,7] else 0)
show()
lights(0,0,0,50)
min_size = (15, 15)
image_scale = 5
haar_scale = 1.2
min_neighbors = 2
haar_flags = cv.CV_HAAR_DO_CANNY_PRUNING
cap = cv.CreateCameraCapture(0)
cv.NamedWindow(“Tracker”, 1)
if cap:
frame_copy = None
while(True):
# Capture frame-by-frame
frame = cv.QueryFrame(cap)
if not frame:
cv.WaitKey(0)
break
if not frame_copy:
frame_copy = cv.CreateImage((frame.width,frame.height),
cv.IPL_DEPTH_8U, frame.nChannels)
if frame.origin == cv.IPL_ORIGIN_TL:
cv.Flip(frame, frame, -1)
# Our operations on the frame come here
gray = cv.CreateImage((frame.width,frame.height), 8, 1)
small_img = cv.CreateImage((cv.Round(frame.width / image_scale),
cv.Round (frame.height / image_scale)), 8, 1)
# convert color input image to grayscale
cv.CvtColor(frame, gray, cv.CV_BGR2GRAY)
# scale input image for faster processing
cv.Resize(gray, small_img, cv.CV_INTER_LINEAR)
cv.EqualizeHist(small_img, small_img)
midFace = None
if(cascade):
t = cv.GetTickCount()
# HaarDetectObjects takes 0.02s
faces = cv.HaarDetectObjects(small_img, cascade, cv.CreateMemStorage(0),
haar_scale, min_neighbors, haar_flags, min_size)
t = cv.GetTickCount() - t
if faces:
lights(50 if len(faces) == 0 else 0, 50 if len(faces) > 0 else 0,0,50)
for ((x, y, w, h), n) in faces:
# the input to cv.HaarDetectObjects was resized, so scale the
# bounding box of each face and convert it to two CvPoints
pt1 = (int(x * image_scale), int(y * image_scale))
pt2 = (int((x + w) * image_scale), int((y + h) * image_scale))
cv.Rectangle(frame, pt1, pt2, cv.RGB(100, 220, 255), 1, 8, 0)
# get the xy corner co-ords, calc the midFace location
x1 = pt1[0]
x2 = pt2[0]
y1 = pt1[1]
y2 = pt2[1]
midFaceX = x1+((x2-x1)/2)
midFaceY = y1+((y2-y1)/2)
midFace = (midFaceX, midFaceY)
offsetX = midFaceX / float(frame.width/2)
offsetY = midFaceY / float(frame.height/2)
offsetX -= 1
offsetY -= 1
cam_pan -= (offsetX * 5)
cam_tilt += (offsetY * 5)
cam_pan = max(0,min(180,cam_pan))
cam_tilt = max(0,min(180,cam_tilt))
print(offsetX, offsetY, midFace, cam_pan, cam_tilt, frame.width, frame.height)
pan(int(cam_pan-90))
tilt(int(cam_tilt-90))
break
# Display the resulting frame
cv.ShowImage('Tracker',frame)
if cv.WaitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
break
cv.DestroyWindow(“Tracker”)