Planning ahead for the next 4 weeks, we have a majority of the integration done along with the passthrough of the video actually getting to the computer. The most significant risk is still the video transmission. We’re able to transmit video over to a host computer, but that aspect still needs work as the current quality of the imaging is nowhere near the framerate that we would like it to be at. In addition, we’re still working through getting the video integrated into a conferencing software. No design changes were made from last week, we were just doing more research and making tweaks to figure out how to get transmission working. One step that we did this week that really helped was using the videotestsrc to test transmission first, and then figure out how to get our camera video transmitted. The risks right now are integrating into a conferencing software, which Heather elaborates in her status update, but to summarize it should be possible to do ONVIF to work with a windows 10 system or use v4l2loopback to work with a linux machine.

In terms of the integration of the project components, we are doing well to demo a majority of it for the demo as the main component that isn’t connected is the use of the audio component but given a fake functionality, the program should still work. This sets us up well to actually integrate it into our project as soon as that portion is ready to be implemented. 

As for audio, we switched our plan completely from last week and are now using USB microphones, which sample much, much faster than the I2C mics we were using before. We have some rudimentary acoustic location working now.