Kinect V2 extension

Fred

@mickey hey do you still have the extension? If so where are you based?

Woland

had to buy this extensive repeater:

Just throwing in that I have successfully extended Kinects over Cat6 (you don't *need* fiber). Just don't go for the cheap ones because with those you really get what you pay for.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c...

Fred

for a Kinect V2 with USB 3 there is no way to do it with a cat system. Kinect 1 is USB 2 and the cheaper systems can be used. I have one of these sets and use it with the first Kinect regularly, but for this project I need to use a Kinect v2. The firenex system is one of 2 I know of that work with the Kinect 2.

Woland

@fred

Even USB 3 extenders don't work?

Fred

@woland to get enough bandwidth for the Kinect, or any full bandwidth USB 3.0 device fibre is the only way, and only a small number of USB 3 extension systems have low enough latency to work with the Kinect 2

So no cat systems and options are limited and expensive. There are a few 10m cables with fibre transceivers built in, some can be chained but they are still very expensive and problematic, if the cable is damaged the transceivers have to be thrown out. The separate fibre trancievers that run over a multi or single mode fibre cable (the cable is cheap) are the way to go. They are about €1000 a set with no cable.

mark_m

@woland said:

Even USB 3 extenders don't work?

They do... but only up to about 5 metres.

dritter

I have been using this combination of cables to provide a 20.5 m cable for a Kinect v1 with no problems:

6m: Kinect builtin cable

4.5m: NYKO kinect extension ($10 USD)
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/NYKO-E...

10m: USB Blue Rigger ($19 CAD)
https://www.amazon.ca/BlueRigg...

I have three sets of these cables to connect three Kinects to two 2015 MacBook Pros running NI-mate.

Don

Maximortal

extend a kinect 2 is a pain in the ass and very expensive. When I have to do it ( if a really have ) I use another computer closer than the one in control booth (usually I place i behind a wing) then I send data/video through a cat6 cable to control booth (osc do not need a cat 6 but video yes) using spout to ndi or tcp syphon (but some time even in a gigabit lan we got some drops)

an pretty small and cheap pc can handle a kinect 2 (around 600 € and with a very small case)

Fred

@maximortal so it looks like @mickey has not been active for 2 years, does anyone know who this is? Anyone have another contact?

Michel

@fred

I sent you a PM.

Best Michel