TB3 Movidius Newual Compute Stick 1.12

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See TB3 Movidius Neural Compute Stick 1.12.01.01

Background

Clay Hofrock told me that NCS SDK 1.* is compatible with ROS Kinetic. It works with Python 2. (6/16/18) This gets around the problem with NCS SDK 2.* needing Python 3.0 which is not compatible with Kinetic's cv2.so library.

Download Release 1.12

• github location
• click on "release" tab
• the 1.12 release
• Download tar.gz source - the file name is ncsdk-1.12.00.01.tar.gz

Install

 $ mv workspace/ workspace_2_04
 
 $ mkdir -p ~/workspace
 
 $ cd ~/workspace
 
 $ mv ~/Downloads/ncsdk-1.12.00.01.tar.gz .
 
 $ tar xzf ncsdk-1.12.00.01.tar.gz
 
 $ mv ncsdk-1.12.00.01 ncsdk

 $ cd ncsdk

NOTE: 1/28/19 failed this time. Go with 2.08 with Realsense2 version. Abort this path.

• pip3 error I may have broken something with these fixes. I'm getting System program problem detected- pip3 tensorflow no attribut sort
• Google search

 $ make install

 $ cat /opt/movidius/version.txt 
     1.12.00.01

NCS 1.12 Install Log

apport Work Around

Got rid of continues report error messages.

• https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/disable-apport-error-reporting-ubuntu-16-04-lts

 $ pwd
     /etc/default

 t$ diff apport.org apport
     4c4,5
     < enabled=1
     ---
     > enabled=0
     >

Examples

Plug in Movidius NCS

 $ lsusb
     Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
     Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f3:2494 Elan Microelectronics Corp. 
     Bus 001 Device 004: ID 8087:0a2a Intel Corp. 
     Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:58c2 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
     Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
     Bus 001 Device 006: ID 03e7:2150  
     Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Movidius is the 03e7:2150 device

 $ pwd
     /home/eepp/workspace/ncsdk
 
 $ make examples

NCS 1.12 Examples Install Log

 $ df
     Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
     ...
     /dev/sda7       92535808 15795244  72016904  18% /

Tests

Python

 $ cd ~/workspace/ncsdk/examples/apps/hello_ncs_py/

 $ python --version
     Python 2.7.12

 $ python hello_ncs.py 
     Hello NCS! Device opened normally.
     Goodbye NCS! Device closed normally.
     NCS device working.

C++

 $ cd ../hello_ncs_cpp
 
 $ make run
 
     making hello_ncs_cpp
     g++ cpp/hello_ncs.cpp -o cpp/hello_ncs_cpp -lmvnc
     Created cpp/hello_ncs_cpp executable

     making run
     cd cpp; ./hello_ncs_cpp; cd ..
     Hello NCS! Device opened normally.
     Goodbye NCS!  Device Closed normally.
     NCS device working.

Tensorflow Example

 $ cd ~/workspace/ncsdk/examples/tensorflow/inception_v3
 
 $ make all

NCS 1.12 Tensorflow Examples Make Log