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USB interface error with OpenNI and Primesense

📅 2015-Aug-04 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ error, openni, primesense, usb ⬩ 📚 Archive

Problem

I wanted to use a Primesense RD1.09 depth camera on my Ubuntu computer. I installed the OpenNI packages available in Ubuntu as described here. I plugged in the camera to a USB 2.0 port and tried the default OpenNI viewer and got this error:

$ Sample-NiSimpleViewer 
Open failed: Failed to set USB interface!

Solution

The camera seemed to be detected since it appears in lsusb listing. The solutions provided online did not work. In the end, I removed the installed OpenNI packages and installed the latest OpenNI2 package as described here. This worked! 😊

Tried with: Primesense RD1.09 and Ubuntu 14.04


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