Hand recorder: headsets without the colour module

Without the Arcturus module, XRService runs the side cameras through the
ISP ("ISP enabled for tracking cameras (main VFE available)"): NV12 on
vfe0 and vfe1, pitch 1152. ft-camd published only grey cameras, so it
dropped them, and the recorder stopped at "ft-camd publishes only 2 of 4
mono cameras" whatever was restarted.

- ft-camd reads a tracking camera's NV12 luma as its grey image.
- ft-hands and check_sides name the cameras by XRService's numbering in
  its log (TrackingCameraInit index 0-3), not by capture pipe, which
  moves with the module; a camera whose size isn't its calibration's is
  left out. sides.json says which device each camera was.
- camcheck reports the camera map, the ISP routing and which cameras
  ft-camd is missing; the recorder says so instead of "restart it",
  restarts its own ft-camd once when that's the only problem, and keeps
  the map in session.json.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 4db5266cf7)
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@@ -1153,11 +1153,33 @@ def _steamvr_version():
return ""
def camera_check():
"""camcheck.check() (the XRService log, its open cameras where readable, ft-camd's ring);
never raises: a failure is "unknown"."""
_camd_restarted = set() # ft-camd pids camera_check(repair=True) has restarted: once each
def _unit_pid(unit):
r = subprocess.run(host_command("systemctl", "--user", "show", "-p", "MainPID", "--value", unit),
capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=30)
try:
return camcheck.check()
return int(r.stdout.strip() or 0)
except ValueError:
return 0
def camera_check(repair=False):
"""camcheck.check() (the XRService log, its open cameras where readable, ft-camd's ring);
never raises: a failure is "unknown". repair (the window, never during a session): when
XRService runs every tracking camera but the recorder's own ft-camd doesn't publish them all
(it started while some were missing), restart it, once per ft-camd, and check again."""
try:
r = camcheck.check()
pid = (r.get("ring") or {}).get("writer_pid")
if repair and camcheck.is_ring_short(r) and pid not in _camd_restarted and _unit_pid(CAMD_UNIT) == pid:
_camd_restarted.add(pid)
stop_unit(CAMD_UNIT)
start_camd()
r = camcheck.check()
r["evidence"].append("restarted ft-camd (pid %d) because it published only some of the cameras" % pid)
return r
except Exception as e:
return {"status": "unknown", "summary": "unknown: the camera check failed (%s)" % e,
"reason": str(e), "evidence": []}
@@ -1169,6 +1191,10 @@ def camera_text(result):
return ""
if camcheck.is_vcint_failure(result):
return camcheck.USER_TEXT
if camcheck.is_ring_short(result):
return ("The headset's tracking cameras are all running, but the recorder can't read some of them (%s). "
"Close the Hand Recorder, run ~/frametop/hands/rec/install.sh again, and open it again. If that "
"doesn't help, ask in the Frametop Discord." % result.get("reason", ""))
return ("Not all of the headset's tracking cameras are running (%s). Restart SteamVR, or restart the "
"headset if that doesn't fix it." % result.get("reason", ""))
@@ -1451,6 +1477,10 @@ class Session:
cam = self._status.get("camera")
if cam:
self._session_json["camera"] = {"status": cam.get("status"), "reason": cam.get("reason", "")}
# which device each calibrated camera was (XRService's numbering) and whether XRService
# ran the side cameras through the ISP (no colour module): to check the names later
self._session_json["device"]["camera_map"] = cam.get("map") or {}
self._session_json["device"]["isp"] = (cam.get("episode") or {}).get("isp")
if self.dry_run:
self._session_json["dry_run"] = True
if self.speed != 1: