Adding Polhemus Patriot Device

[sanjuanp]

Hello,

I am trying to connect the Polhemus tracker to Plus. I have followed all the steps in the guide, but I am not clear on how to make the changes effective. When the PlusBuild changes are made, a project is generated with CMake and it is compiled in Visual Studio, which generates PlusLib. Then, the necessary PlusLib modifications are made. Once I have added what is needed in the PlusLib files, do I have to configure and generate a PlusLib project with Cmake and then compile the project, just like I did with PlusBuid?

Supposedly when I do this it should reflect the changes made when I open PlusServerLauncher.

If it has to be done differently, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

[sanjuanp]

Hello,

When I try to connect with Polhemus the following error appears in the PlusServerLauncher:

 042723_110844.097|ERROR|000.009000| Unknown device type: Polhemus. Supported devices: ChRobotics, FakeTracker, GenericSerialDevice, ImageProcessor, Microchip, NoiseVideo, OpenIGTLinkTracker, OpenIGTLinkVideo, SavedDataSource, UsSimulator, VirtualBufferedCapture, VirtualCapture, VirtualDeinterlacer, VirtualDiscCapture, VirtualMixer, VirtualSwitcher, VirtualVolumeReconstructor| in C:\D\PlusB-bin\PlusLib\src\PlusDataCollection\vtkPlusDeviceFactory.cxx(534)

042723_110844.098|ERROR|000.010000| Unable to create device: Polhemus| in C:\D\PlusB-bin\PlusLib\src\PlusDataCollection\vtkPlusDataCollector.cxx(136)

042723_110844.098|ERROR|000.010000| No devices created. Please verify configuration file and any error produced.| in C:\D\PlusB-bin\PlusLib\src\PlusDataCollection\vtkPlusDataCollector.cxx(150)

042723_110844.098|ERROR|000.010000| Datacollector failed to read configuration| in C:\D\PlusB-bin\PlusLib\src\PlusDataCollection\vtkPlusDataCollector.cxx(264)

042723_110844.098|ERROR|000.010000| Datacollector failed to read configuration| in C:\D\PlusB-bin\PlusLib\src\PlusServer\Tools\PlusServer.cxx(87)

I do not knoq if it is because it is not loading the changes I have done to configure Polhemus in vtkPlusDeviceFactory.cxx and the other files. Or if there is something else that I have to do to create a device.

When I have done all the changes required following your guide and finally I have updated and rebuilt Plus with the command you mentioned in the guide. However, the same error appears.