In my project i use the Xbox kinect to recognize handgestures. This is working fine. So now i need some kind of feedback from the system and i decided to use the LED on th front of the kinect. The OpenNi driver doesnt support currently the LED control. In order of this i find out that the OpenKinect libfreenect driver is a popular alternative.
Have anybody of you an idea how i can use Openni and libfreenect simultaneous on the same machine?
I am working on a ubuntu 64bit system.
I had a similar question a few years ago and I used OpenFrameworks with the osxOpenNI addon. The advantage is that this addon uses both OpenNI and libfreenect. Libfreenect however is simply used for accessing the hardware OpenNI can't: accelerometer, tilt/motor and the LED
I suggest giving that a go and bare in mind you should run the app as sudo if you're controlling hardware(LED,etc.). This addon is old now and doesn't support OpenNI2 so I suggest installing OpenNI 1.5
This might a bit more effort than what it's worth. Perhaps if video output isn't enough, some sort of sound feedback would help ?
