ElphelVision Installation Guide
1 Overview
This guide explains how to install ElphelVision on your Elphel camera and a computer running Ubuntu (32bit) connected to your camera over Ethernet.
This guide assumes that you have successfully downloaded the required files.
2 Installation
2.1 FTP Transfer
Use an FTP client of choice (eg. Filezilla) and connect to your Elphel camera.
Default IP: 192.168.0.9 User: root / PW: pass
Upload the complete "ElphelVision" directory in "elphel/Apertus/camera www/" to the "/mnt/flash/html/" directory of your Elphel camera
You can test if everything worked properly by opening a browser and going to:
http://192.168.0.9/ElphelVision/elphelvision_interface.php?cmd=status (replace 192.168.0.9 with your Elphel cameras IP).
If you get lots of xml output installation was successful.
2.2 Running ElphelVision
Requirements:
2.2.1 Java JRE (Java Runtime Environment)
Careful, OpenJDK produced some drawing artefacts with Text in Buttons, you will get strange color fringes.
Install the Official Java JRE from Sun/Oracle:
first enable the "Canonical Partners" Software Source (Software Sources -> Other Software: enable "Canonical Partners - Software packaged by Canonical for their partners")
then update the software index and run:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre
You can have both of them installed side-by-side
Just installing new Java flavours does not change the default Java pointed to by /usr/bin/java. You must explicitly set this:
To see the current configuration and possibilities:
sudo update-java-alternatives -l
To set the XXX java version as default.
sudo update-java-alternatives -s XXXX
For Sun Java 6 this would be
sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun
To ensure that the correct version is being called:
java -version
2.2.2 VLC
For ElphelVision you require a VLC version 1.1.4 or higher
sudo apt-get install vlc
Careful: Ubuntu maintained software channel might be outdated (it was the case for some time with 10.04), check: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html for a guide how to get a recent version
You should now go to this User Guide to continue.